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Sportorizing CZ24 Mauser
- Thread starter roser61
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Hi, Roser61,
The subject is too large for web site advice, but I cannot believe you found nothing. I wonder if you are using the wrong name and mean "VZ-24", which is the Czech version of the Mauser Model 1898. A search on "Mauser 98" might yield better results.
There have been literally thousands of magazine articles and even books written on sporterizing the Model 98 Mauser. The advice ranges from a quick and dirty hacksaw job on the stock to producing a superb custom rifle costing in the thousands.
The economic facts of life are that (unless you can do most of the work yourself) to make a sporting rifle equivalent to, let's say, the Remington 700, will cost just about as much as a Remington 700. The advantage is that you can spread the cost over time, doing each piece of the job as you get time and money.
You can also find books on the book sites, and also on www.brownells.com, which has a number of books on gunsmithing and customizing rifles.
Jim
The subject is too large for web site advice, but I cannot believe you found nothing. I wonder if you are using the wrong name and mean "VZ-24", which is the Czech version of the Mauser Model 1898. A search on "Mauser 98" might yield better results.
There have been literally thousands of magazine articles and even books written on sporterizing the Model 98 Mauser. The advice ranges from a quick and dirty hacksaw job on the stock to producing a superb custom rifle costing in the thousands.
The economic facts of life are that (unless you can do most of the work yourself) to make a sporting rifle equivalent to, let's say, the Remington 700, will cost just about as much as a Remington 700. The advantage is that you can spread the cost over time, doing each piece of the job as you get time and money.
You can also find books on the book sites, and also on www.brownells.com, which has a number of books on gunsmithing and customizing rifles.
Jim
Sorry Jim, I indeed meant the VZ24. I don't know how CZ24 got into my head but anyhow, I was simply looking for a replacement stock and some way to mount a scope. I believe I can bend the bolt with a ouick application of heat concentrated in a small area and the use of a heat dam without weakening the critical areas of the other parts. That was all I had in mind to sporterize at the moment and maybe a bluing job too. Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!
Smokey Joe
New member
Scope for a czech
Go to www.scopemounts.com/98mauser.html. This is the URL of S & K Scope Mounts, which makes one that goes on lg. ring Mausers for $115. They also make a lot of 'scope mounts for other milsurps, BTW. You will have to bend the bolt for this or almost any other regular-mount 'scope
I would strongly urge you to get some advice on how to apply heat to the bolt w/o doing any damage. Or, a gunsmith could do this for you, then if there is damage it's his problem.
Take the time and $$$ to do it right, the whole thing. Otherwise it just isn't worth it--You take a $150 gun and $300 worth of parts, and carelessly produce a $75 gun. (My round numbers. It's the last one that is the bad news.) Good luck on your project. Enjoy.
Go to www.scopemounts.com/98mauser.html. This is the URL of S & K Scope Mounts, which makes one that goes on lg. ring Mausers for $115. They also make a lot of 'scope mounts for other milsurps, BTW. You will have to bend the bolt for this or almost any other regular-mount 'scope
I would strongly urge you to get some advice on how to apply heat to the bolt w/o doing any damage. Or, a gunsmith could do this for you, then if there is damage it's his problem.
Take the time and $$$ to do it right, the whole thing. Otherwise it just isn't worth it--You take a $150 gun and $300 worth of parts, and carelessly produce a $75 gun. (My round numbers. It's the last one that is the bad news.) Good luck on your project. Enjoy.
roser61,
By the time you mount scope bases, turn down the bolt, change barrels and stock, possibly a new trigger, you'll have invested as much or more than you'd have in a Rem.700 or a good Savage bolt rifle.
Unless you just want the experience of doing it, or want to be able to point and say, "I made that"... the economics of converting an 8mm milsurp to a different caliber hunting sporter and coming out ahead of a commercial equal in terms of accuracy and value are against you.
Been over this in my head and with the calculator a dozen times myself.... Seems it's just better to keep my old milsurps as they are and enjoy them that way. When I need something different, I buy something different.
Swampy
By the time you mount scope bases, turn down the bolt, change barrels and stock, possibly a new trigger, you'll have invested as much or more than you'd have in a Rem.700 or a good Savage bolt rifle.
Unless you just want the experience of doing it, or want to be able to point and say, "I made that"... the economics of converting an 8mm milsurp to a different caliber hunting sporter and coming out ahead of a commercial equal in terms of accuracy and value are against you.
Been over this in my head and with the calculator a dozen times myself.... Seems it's just better to keep my old milsurps as they are and enjoy them that way. When I need something different, I buy something different.
Swampy