Mauser 98 action question

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Rblevin1

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I have a Mauser 98 action I picked up from an auction, and I'm wanting to build either a 6.5cm or a 6.5x55 off it. Once I got around to looking at it at home I noticed the threads are more shallow than other 98s I've built from. They measure .550 from end of bolt face, and I'm wondering if that's enough threads to build off of? I would be putting on the barrel from a blank myself (still learning a lot) and chambering myself, so the problem of buying a short chambered barrel and the threads not matching with the shallow threads of the action that has been tweaked are not there. Hoping this makes sense, thanks
 
I'm pretty much an amateur like you, but I've had some experience. I go by a shop manual by Jerry Kuhnhausen, The Mauser Bolt Actions. He calls for .600 from the rear torque shoulder inside the receiver to the secondary one at the front, and a minimum of 7 full barrel threads. So the threaded part of the barrel would be .600 with 7 threads. I think the bolt face is probably even deeper than the inner shoulder, so somebody might have trued and blueprinted that receiver too much. Maybe it could be salvaged somehow.
 
+1 on Jerry Kuhnhausen's book. I'm new to this, too, but I know Turkish Mausers can have a short barrel shank. What is the ID of your threads?
 
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