tahunua001
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hello all. I posed this question over at the bolt and lever gun forums and haven't gotten much help so I figured I'd repost in the C&R forum.
I have been invited to a friends house to do a little playing around in their basement. her husband used to own a gun store but now the only remnants are a room full of ammo and a huge stack of milsurp rifle parts. I know for a fact that there is a number of mosin nagant parts and my little brother managed to fully assemble a long branch enfield no4 from the scratch and has been using it to hunt with for the last year so I am hoping to gather enough parts to make as many working rifles as possible, however I do have one major concern.
my brother claims that he saw a few mauser bolts laying around and vaguely remembers a reciever in a corner somewhere so I'm hoping that I can assemble a full K98 but one thing I've noticed is that the bolts from k98s also look similar to those from 1903s, 1917s and P14s so my major question is how do I tell the difference between these 4 similar, yet majorly different bolts when they are lying in a huge stack of mixed parts?
I have been invited to a friends house to do a little playing around in their basement. her husband used to own a gun store but now the only remnants are a room full of ammo and a huge stack of milsurp rifle parts. I know for a fact that there is a number of mosin nagant parts and my little brother managed to fully assemble a long branch enfield no4 from the scratch and has been using it to hunt with for the last year so I am hoping to gather enough parts to make as many working rifles as possible, however I do have one major concern.
my brother claims that he saw a few mauser bolts laying around and vaguely remembers a reciever in a corner somewhere so I'm hoping that I can assemble a full K98 but one thing I've noticed is that the bolts from k98s also look similar to those from 1903s, 1917s and P14s so my major question is how do I tell the difference between these 4 similar, yet majorly different bolts when they are lying in a huge stack of mixed parts?