LineStretcher
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I just won the bid on a 1893 German Mauser that was made for the Spanish and the Turks liked them so much they bought 200,000 + of them and then in 1936 Ankara Arms converted them to 8mmx57 and they became the M38. This is information I was able to grab off the internet and may not be entirely correct. It's not a numbers matching rifle but I still paid up for it because the seller had a lot of sales and a good reputation. The rifle shipped to my FFL today.
Buying a gun on Gun Broker is a crap shoot for sure but if this doesn't work out for what I want it for then it will make a nice wall hanger and it's kind of fun to just imagine who might have had this rifle in their hands and where it might have gone to battle.
So what do I want it for you might be thinking? Well if it is a 1893 Mauser Action and the bolt is a M98 like it appears to be in the pictures then this is a probably a large thread action with a great bolt that can be blue printed and turned into one heck of a beautiful hunting rifle. I'll put a Shilen barrel on it and chamber it in 270 Weatherby Magnum because that's one I don't have.
Buying a gun on Gun Broker is a crap shoot for sure but if this doesn't work out for what I want it for then it will make a nice wall hanger and it's kind of fun to just imagine who might have had this rifle in their hands and where it might have gone to battle.
So what do I want it for you might be thinking? Well if it is a 1893 Mauser Action and the bolt is a M98 like it appears to be in the pictures then this is a probably a large thread action with a great bolt that can be blue printed and turned into one heck of a beautiful hunting rifle. I'll put a Shilen barrel on it and chamber it in 270 Weatherby Magnum because that's one I don't have.