snowman748
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Ok, Spanish 1916 Mausers are selling for like $170 (or less) online and seem like a decent rifle to sporterize. "You can buy a new gun for the price..."blah, blah...what I'm curious about is this...
I already know the history of some of the Spanish Mausers being converted to 7.62x51 NATO (or 308 depending on who you ask) and it's been debated to death about how unsafe this practice is...I don't want to start that debate...
My question is has anyone ever thought about converting one to 6.5 Grendel? From my understanding a lot of these rifles were converted to 7.62x39 to shoot cheap ammo and NO ONE thinks this was an unsafe practice. I also understand that 6.5 Creedmore or similar caliber would probably be to much pressure for the rifle, also a lot of expense when you could just leave it in 7mm Mauser and get decent preformce...however 6.5 Grendel is cheaper the 7mm Mauser to shoot (especially with Wolf now selling steel cased 6.5 Grendel), has great long distance performance when compared to 7.62x39 and has a lot lower pressure then 7mm Mauser so should also be completely safe for the action...would be kinda cool to have a gun that old still be able to reach out and touch stuff as a plinker...
$170 rifle, a $180 ER Shaw barrel (it's going to be shooting steel case, I don't want to hear how bad Shaw barrels are)...would require being drilled and tapped for a scope, probably having the bolt handle bent more (or grinding it down) but might be cool? A lot better rifle in my opinion then guys that buy Mosins and try to accurize them...
I already know the history of some of the Spanish Mausers being converted to 7.62x51 NATO (or 308 depending on who you ask) and it's been debated to death about how unsafe this practice is...I don't want to start that debate...
My question is has anyone ever thought about converting one to 6.5 Grendel? From my understanding a lot of these rifles were converted to 7.62x39 to shoot cheap ammo and NO ONE thinks this was an unsafe practice. I also understand that 6.5 Creedmore or similar caliber would probably be to much pressure for the rifle, also a lot of expense when you could just leave it in 7mm Mauser and get decent preformce...however 6.5 Grendel is cheaper the 7mm Mauser to shoot (especially with Wolf now selling steel cased 6.5 Grendel), has great long distance performance when compared to 7.62x39 and has a lot lower pressure then 7mm Mauser so should also be completely safe for the action...would be kinda cool to have a gun that old still be able to reach out and touch stuff as a plinker...
$170 rifle, a $180 ER Shaw barrel (it's going to be shooting steel case, I don't want to hear how bad Shaw barrels are)...would require being drilled and tapped for a scope, probably having the bolt handle bent more (or grinding it down) but might be cool? A lot better rifle in my opinion then guys that buy Mosins and try to accurize them...