Turk Mauser - Bad bore/rifling - What to do?

[Mike Irwin]

Have you shot it yet?

If not, do so before you make any decisions.

You might be surprised at how well it shoots, even with a nasty bore.

 

[tobnpr]

Hi, tobnpr,

Some "Turk Mausers" have large barrel tenons. How would you get those to take a small tenon barrel by "machining the front receiver ring off"?

Jim

I'm about as far from an "expert" on Mausers as one can get, only passing along what I'd learned when I was considering a project. Might not be the case with all of them, don't know. Does work with the examples Wagner has shown. To agree with the obvious, small ring barrel threads certainly wouldn't work with a large ring threaded receiver.

 

[James K]

I finally realized that by "the front receiver ring" was meant the flange that some of those receivers have at the front of the receiver ring to retain the handguard. I am not sure, but I think it would have to be removed to install a barrel with a shoulder if the shoulder were too large. Just another contribution to the "Turk Mauser" confusion.

Jim