Nope, you're past the point of no return, now, Mausers or otherwise. I say that as I finish going over my 2nd No1MkIII*, this one a 1942 Lithgow Enfield, and will start reassembling a 1942 Long Branch No4Mk1* that had been reduced to a barreled action by it's previous owner. Once afflicted by Mauser fever, the disease does run deep, I can open a safe or two and see a 1916 Haenel Gewehr98, a 1917 Amberg Gewehr98, a 1917 Carl Gustaf Swedish M96, a M48 Yugo Mauser, and a Czech VZ-24. Then we open a file cabinet drawer and take a looksie. Whadd'ya know? A Siamese Mauser action destined to become a .45-70 once I find a smith to take on the job, a 1942 Byf Kar98K action that will become a heavy-barreled .308 varmint/tactical rig, and a Turkish Mauser action that I've set aside to become a .220 Swift or .22-250 zinger.
And if you think you can recover from that, then you go on with your WWI and WWII collection, to include the No1MkIII* 1918 Enfield SMLE, the No5Mk1 1945 BSA Jungle Carbine, the 1912 Bern 1911 Schmidt-Rubin, the 1918 Springfield 1903, the 1944 Remington 1903A4, the 1942 Springfield M1 Garand, the 1938 Dutch Steyr-Mannlicher Cavalry Carbine, and the 1918 Dutch Steyr-Mannlicher Engineer's Carbine.
So yes, it is an affliction of the worst kind, and I pray to Gawd that nobody comes up with a cure, yet!
