The bug in the whole Mauser clan is that it's in between . We now have the AR/223 etc , 308/WSM , 06'/WM , and the full Magnum length actions . Nobody wants a long action that doesn't chamber a cartridge that doesn't use the whole thing ...........as I typed that I remembered that I had an AXIS and Stevens 200 both long action 110 patterns in 223 and just like that there is a market nitch for a long action with shorter cartridges chambered . The Axis uses a bolt extension stop to shorten the throw .
That's the argument I've always heard . The long action 110 will feed , at least my example would , a 3.99 OAL set up factory 06' .
If I ever get back around to the 7×57 again i have plenty of length for really long bullets and I have a few 180 gr Match Kings .
i don't get the short/long action? i mean it will take you about .02 seconds if you have long action to cycle. the short action weighs less, but it doesn't bother me. it might bother me if i have the rifle, sleeping bag/tent......lol. here back East, i take it home or at least to camp every day. yes, camp is like a 4-star hotel suite including cable tv, hot water, couch, recliners, beds, showers........my grandfather and my dad and uncle built a very beautiful camp that we had for years. then my grandpap and uncle died, i am disabled and my dad was left there holding the bag. then we decided to sell it because of the high taxes.
where was i?
oh, i don't have and never will the mag action. so i gots nuthin more to say about that!!!
Peter-Paul Mauser designs ('91 - '98 mauser and all of 'x57s) are geniuses-level. he should have stopped with the small ring '96 mauser, but he went on and did large ring 98 mauser. 124 years later, people swoon at the chance buy an old '98 mauser and custom it up. oh gee, sorry about the drool i'm having, the mauser actions are just so beautiful.............
the Krag–Jorgensen rifle is a rifle you either hate or love, i love it. my only beef with the 30-40 krag is that it has only one locking lug, when it should have had two. we, meaning the US Gov, screwed the pooch with this one. but after reading Michael Petrov, it changed my mind for the better.
There seems to be a lot of customized Krags on the market at this time, many not bad and in the $300-400 range.I�ve seen a lot written about the Krag and many times the one locking lug is always mentioned as the �Weak� link in the Krag. This is to address the design of the Krag not...
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i don't have any of old WW1 AND WW2 springfield's in '06, but i probably buy one just to see how they had to take a '98 mauser action into a old '03 springfield. i read about it, but i've never seen one that i could take apart and put it back together.