Catshooter
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I have a friend. He's been a riflesmith since 1958. We trade rifles back and forth and suchlike.
He gave me a Mouser 98 a few months back that he put a two groove 03A3 barrel on. I couldn't get it to shoot, so gave it back to him. Then I drove away.
Came back about an hour later to give him a Houge Overmould stock I had for it as the one it was it was, well, not too nice.
While I was gone he had found an '06 commercial Mauser take-off barrel he had hanging around and installed it on the action. When I got back to him it took him couple of minutes and he had the barreled action out of the old stock and into the Houge. While I was gone he had fired a couple of rounds just to foul the bore. Handed it to me to shoot, saying not to expect much as the barrel was pitted full length. I just happened to have three rounds of '06 in my pocket (
) so I repaired to the bench in his back room. They were loaded with 20 grains of 5744 under a 1/2 pb 1/2 ww Lyman 311332 sized .309.
Two rounds ended up touching and the third made the group right at an inch at 100 yards.
Retrieved the target and showed him; he just grinned. Told him I wanted my rifle back: he just grinned.
What a friend.
Cat
He gave me a Mouser 98 a few months back that he put a two groove 03A3 barrel on. I couldn't get it to shoot, so gave it back to him. Then I drove away.
Came back about an hour later to give him a Houge Overmould stock I had for it as the one it was it was, well, not too nice.
While I was gone he had found an '06 commercial Mauser take-off barrel he had hanging around and installed it on the action. When I got back to him it took him couple of minutes and he had the barreled action out of the old stock and into the Houge. While I was gone he had fired a couple of rounds just to foul the bore. Handed it to me to shoot, saying not to expect much as the barrel was pitted full length. I just happened to have three rounds of '06 in my pocket (
) so I repaired to the bench in his back room. They were loaded with 20 grains of 5744 under a 1/2 pb 1/2 ww Lyman 311332 sized .309.Two rounds ended up touching and the third made the group right at an inch at 100 yards.
Retrieved the target and showed him; he just grinned. Told him I wanted my rifle back: he just grinned.
What a friend.
Cat
