7.62X51 or .308 Mausers

[Badgersmilk]

Here's the .308 magazine from my ar10, with a 8mm Mauser shell in it, and a .270 Winchester on top that.  I KNOW the .270 is a long action, and it's the same length as the 8mm.  I have heard of 30/06 Mauser conversions, that commonly BLOW UP, and are considered by most experts completely unsafe to shoot because chamber pressures exceed what the reciever or action were ever intended for.

[twyacht]

Paul & Wilhelm Mauser made a hell of a rifle. The re-barreled ones are only as good as the "smith" that did the re-barreling.

Found some "stuff" while digging.

You need to get a copy of Kuhnhausen's book The Mauser Bolt Actions; a shop manual.

From what I understand, a 98 Mauser barrel will work (the M48 is simply an 'intermediate action' and identical to a 93 except the mag well/bolt throw is a little shorter.).

I've found this barrel at midway.
http://www.midwayusa.com/eproductpag...197&t=11082005

Adams & Bennett Barrel Mauser Series 3 308 Winchester F54 Contour 1 in 10" Twist 24" Chrome Moly in the White

Midway offered 3 different types of this barrel, an F12/F34/and this F54 contour. The F54 is the only one in available(no backorder on the others).

Want to change a good thing do ya? I'd stick with the 8mm, but .308 is a .308.  

[Badgersmilk]

Exactly what your looking for Tom.  "Coming Soon"

http://www.centuryarms.biz/proddetail.asp?prod=RI141%2DFC





An even better source to purchase from.

http://www.mauser.org/rifles/K98k%20German/index.htm

"The Totenkopf (Death’s Head) was affixed to a small number of rifles that were intended for use by special ‘SS’ troops."  



These guys were the worst of the worst murderous rapists, and homicidal lunatics...  I'd really not want their memorabelia in my house.  And I'm GERMAN!

[david86440]

I would not consider re-Barreling a small ring mauser but mine are both large ring.

Large Ring - Mauser's with a Large ring have a thread shank diameter of 1.10" With 12 threads per inch. Across the face of the receiver will measure 1 3/8 . You can also measure the trigger guard screw holes, From center hole to center of other hole should measure about 7 7/8 or 7.830.

Small Ring - Mausers with a Small ring have a thread shank diameter of .980" With 12 threads per inch. Across the face of the receiver will measure 1 1/4. You can also measure the trigger guard screw holes, From the center of the holes measure , it should measure about 7 5/8 or 7.625.

http://www.mausercentral.com/barandcal.htm

Caliber's - The caliber choices for the mauser are vast as long as the head on the cartridge is .473 [ or 12.01 mm ] and no longer in length than a 30-06 shell [ shorter cartridges are fine and usually feed without any modifications.] Your barrel swap should be easy when barreling for a non magnum cartridge.

However If you decide on a magnum caliber the bolt face will need to be modified or replaced with a magnum sized faced bolt, the magazine box will need to be lengthened and the feed rails will need modifications which is all best left to a smith. However changing your stock military barrel to a .308 , .22-250, .35 whelen, etc.[ list above is for common manufactured barrels with twist rates, magnum calibers are stated as so]... A non-magnum caliber is easier and is fairly an easy swap just remember always have the headspace checked and properly adjusted.

 

 

[fightingquaker13]

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[Badgersmilk]

7.62X39 Mauser conversion!

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Hitler AND Stalin are spinning in their graves right now! 

[ccd]

Every once in a while Samco or one of the other surplus importers gets in a shipment of the Spanish Mausers that were rebarreled into 308. Usually you can get them fairly cheap.

[Hazcat]

Every once in a while Samco or one of the other surplus importers gets in a shipment of the Spanish Mausers that were rebarreled into 308. Usually you can get them fairly cheap.

Were they re barreled or were they made like the Ishy?

[warhawke]

Most Spanish Mauser conversions are 93 Mausers which lack the 3rd lug on the bolt limiting them to less than 42,000 cpu. You need an M98 to run .308 and you need to be SURE it is chambered for .308 Win as opposed to 7.62x51 which has a heavier base and lower pressure. I have a Spanish FR-8 (the best Mauser variant ever made IM not so HO) and I run mostly surplus 7.62 NATO in it.

[tombogan03884]

Haz, the Spanish and Israeli Mausers were rebarreled, The Spanish got theirs from 1936 on in 8mm then After the war in 47 and 48 the Israeli's bought a butt load of arms from Czechoslovakia, MG42's Mauser 98's The first Israeli Air force fighter planes were 6 ME 109's. When NATO converted to 7.62 both countries rebarreled their weapons to match. a lot of enfields were as well and that is when India switched over to making the Ishapores in .308

War hawk, What is the price range on the FR8  ?

BM, Mitchell Mausers are over priced but good shooters, their advertising verges on fraud as they are refinished and in some cases if not all REMARKED also they are assembled from mixed renumbered parts, do a google search on them, even Democrat underground says they are over rated and over priced. apparently they ARE good shooters but for collectors it's a rip off, Like the looks of that little T63 Tanker Mauser though  

This is just something that I was thinking of, it will not break my heart to "settle" for a Yugo 8mm.