sable tireur
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Obviously, you're the expert here with all your experience of 'several home builds' and all the resources of Mauser Central at your command.
Good Luck.
Good Luck.
Obviously, you're the expert here with all your experience of 'several home builds' and all the resources of Mauser Central at your command.
Good Luck.
Great pictures, do you like your 458? I want to build one for my self. Do you run it subsonic?I built a Savage bolt action 458 SOCOM and to get it to feed I used 300 WSM magazines with a nylon ramp in the front epoxied of the magazine. I tried it with the unaltered mag and they nose dived like you describe. The rounds are short and extremely heavy but the Savage being a push feed just needs them to get out of the mag in the general direction of the bore. I imagine the Mauser claw type is going to be more of a challenge but I bet it can be done. Here is a picture of the magazine. The white piece is the ramp I epoxied in to help lift the front of the bullet up. View attachment 82896 View attachment 82896
No, I'm going to mess with the bottom metal first, and if I can't get it to work, I'll switch to a mag. I'll post some pictures in the next few days, I'm having a buddy weld a new bolt handle on today so I'll have to notch the action for the handle, and then I can get back to the feed ramps.Yeah with the mauser being a control feed it would be very challenging to feed that far back from the chamber.
It still might be doable but I know most guys push the 308 forward so it picks up the feed ramp. They of course are feeding from the original bottom metal. I wish I had a 458 to try from 308 build. Just to see how it would strip from the mag.
6mm...you ever decide whether you were going original bottom metal or mag?