CWLONGSHOT
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So.. Briar with some rambling... I've had this Mauser for 30 years. My grandfather gave it to me that long ago.
I restocked it twice. Both with off the shelf stocks. The last one was a Archangel. A downright Fugly stock, that actually feels really good when you shoot it. I've been loading for this rifle a lot lately and out of two dozen different loads, I found one, that would produce groups about 1 inch, but its velocity is 2380fps. Quite a bit slower than I'd like to see for 170 grain round nose bullet. If that's the best it does, I can make that work as a hunting caliber, but I'm not going to leave it "dressed" is now.
I have a couple of walnut stocks that are partially inletted. Only one was the correct action length, so I started work on it. I probably should've recorded it from the beginning, but I didn't. Someone had bubba'ed it pretty good. I was able to reshape and get rid of most of the worst problems. But way ahead of schedule, someone drilled it for Sling studs. But did not have any idea what they were doing as both are too close to the ends of the stock and both are off-center. ;( So I drilled them out 3/8 of an inch and installed hardwood dowels and sanded them flush. They're going to show, I know, but they look a lot better.
I thought the barrel channel was really fudged up, but the whole thing is so out of square, with the shaping that that "Bubba" did. It turns out, not as bad, now that I have it in a more conventional workable shape. They had quite a "reverse perch belly" going at the butt!! They tried to exaggerate the pistol grip cap, removing a lot of wood behind it, making a protrude in a bulbus knob. I have it filed flat, and rounded the sides. It feels good in the hand, but it still looks a little funny.
The stocks figure is straight grain with some nice spots. I think it will finish up nicely. There's one small bullseye knot in the butt. The stock was made by Fajin.
I finally got the action to sit down in the stock and it fits pretty well. The Stock bolt hole spacing is correct, for a large ring Mauser, but the inlet wasn't cut for a large ring??
Also, the front lug was drilled out, straight thru, to a half inch bore??? What I think I'm gonna do is bed the bottom metal by itself into the stock, and then come back and glass the front lug area by itself. There is some gaps showing at sides of bottom metal, around this front stud hole. So I think, before I remove wood, to make flush. Im thinking Ill bed it in. Then, I can sand entire area, flush at same time.
I'll also make and install a pillar in the back stud of the stock.
The bottom metal inlet, on the other hand was fit very well, but, at the same time, almost completely wrong. :
Behind the trigger guard seems to be mostly correct. It has the proper gaps. But the front, the front lug is a full eight of an inch too far from the action. (Thick) As you may know the 98 Mauser has a built-in pillar bedding for the front lug with the factory bottom metal. So they need to fit properly and engage each other 100% sanding the stock between. Luckily with that big half inch hole it just took 10 minutes with a chisel to reduce the thickness and once I did that the bottom metal fit in nicely and was able to attach the screws and finally see the action in the stock. I think it's gonna be a fun little project. It's very nice feeling it's shaping up pretty good. The bottom metal is almost completely in the white. Making my fitting that much easier because I can fit it with it in place without worrying about affecting the finish. And then refinish the bottom separately afterwards. I'll also be fitting a recoil pad to the stock. Here's a quick short that I just did just to start a video series. I'll do on this rifle.
CW
I restocked it twice. Both with off the shelf stocks. The last one was a Archangel. A downright Fugly stock, that actually feels really good when you shoot it. I've been loading for this rifle a lot lately and out of two dozen different loads, I found one, that would produce groups about 1 inch, but its velocity is 2380fps. Quite a bit slower than I'd like to see for 170 grain round nose bullet. If that's the best it does, I can make that work as a hunting caliber, but I'm not going to leave it "dressed" is now.
I have a couple of walnut stocks that are partially inletted. Only one was the correct action length, so I started work on it. I probably should've recorded it from the beginning, but I didn't. Someone had bubba'ed it pretty good. I was able to reshape and get rid of most of the worst problems. But way ahead of schedule, someone drilled it for Sling studs. But did not have any idea what they were doing as both are too close to the ends of the stock and both are off-center. ;( So I drilled them out 3/8 of an inch and installed hardwood dowels and sanded them flush. They're going to show, I know, but they look a lot better.
I thought the barrel channel was really fudged up, but the whole thing is so out of square, with the shaping that that "Bubba" did. It turns out, not as bad, now that I have it in a more conventional workable shape. They had quite a "reverse perch belly" going at the butt!! They tried to exaggerate the pistol grip cap, removing a lot of wood behind it, making a protrude in a bulbus knob. I have it filed flat, and rounded the sides. It feels good in the hand, but it still looks a little funny.
The stocks figure is straight grain with some nice spots. I think it will finish up nicely. There's one small bullseye knot in the butt. The stock was made by Fajin.
I finally got the action to sit down in the stock and it fits pretty well. The Stock bolt hole spacing is correct, for a large ring Mauser, but the inlet wasn't cut for a large ring??
Also, the front lug was drilled out, straight thru, to a half inch bore??? What I think I'm gonna do is bed the bottom metal by itself into the stock, and then come back and glass the front lug area by itself. There is some gaps showing at sides of bottom metal, around this front stud hole. So I think, before I remove wood, to make flush. Im thinking Ill bed it in. Then, I can sand entire area, flush at same time.
I'll also make and install a pillar in the back stud of the stock.
The bottom metal inlet, on the other hand was fit very well, but, at the same time, almost completely wrong. :
Behind the trigger guard seems to be mostly correct. It has the proper gaps. But the front, the front lug is a full eight of an inch too far from the action. (Thick) As you may know the 98 Mauser has a built-in pillar bedding for the front lug with the factory bottom metal. So they need to fit properly and engage each other 100% sanding the stock between. Luckily with that big half inch hole it just took 10 minutes with a chisel to reduce the thickness and once I did that the bottom metal fit in nicely and was able to attach the screws and finally see the action in the stock. I think it's gonna be a fun little project. It's very nice feeling it's shaping up pretty good. The bottom metal is almost completely in the white. Making my fitting that much easier because I can fit it with it in place without worrying about affecting the finish. And then refinish the bottom separately afterwards. I'll also be fitting a recoil pad to the stock. Here's a quick short that I just did just to start a video series. I'll do on this rifle.
CW
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