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Barbara Mauser Action question
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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 1177356" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Every Santa Barbar Mauser I've seen is of "standard" length with a guard screw hole spacing of 7.835". I know of no hinged bottom metal available at the present time, that is made of steel. You might find one on GunBroker or E-Bay. Sometimes, Interarms MK 10 bottom metal will be found there with an average price of $125.00. Inside length of boxes that fit this action length is 3.400". The only Mausers I know of with longer mag boxes are the Brevex which was made with .375 H&H cartridges in mind. Now, mind you, that there have been many other commercial Mauser '98s made over the past 100yrs. Most have slipped into obsolesence. Some did have mag boxes longer, but your chances of finding a commercial mag box/trigger guard are slim to none for these long obsolete actions. Even if you did it would not be wise to remove metal from the front of the feed port as you would be weekening the lower locking abutment. If you did happen to find one, it would command a price greater than what the action, alone, would. Before I decided to responded to your post I took a quick look at a 'newer' Hornaday loading manual. OAL with all their bullets in .458 Win. would work and work well in a mag of 3.400" length. I don't know where your 'gunsmith' is coming up with the 3.5" inside mag length, as you stated in your post. Maybe he just doen't want to do the job? He must not be versed in Mauser '98s. As, many thousands of military Mauser 98s have been converted into sporters in all of the std. length magnum cartridges (.300 Win. Mag., 7mm Rem Mag, .338 , .264 , & 485 Win Mags). More info may be available on mausercentral.com</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 1177356, member: 24284"] Every Santa Barbar Mauser I've seen is of "standard" length with a guard screw hole spacing of 7.835". I know of no hinged bottom metal available at the present time, that is made of steel. You might find one on GunBroker or E-Bay. Sometimes, Interarms MK 10 bottom metal will be found there with an average price of $125.00. Inside length of boxes that fit this action length is 3.400". The only Mausers I know of with longer mag boxes are the Brevex which was made with .375 H&H cartridges in mind. Now, mind you, that there have been many other commercial Mauser '98s made over the past 100yrs. Most have slipped into obsolesence. Some did have mag boxes longer, but your chances of finding a commercial mag box/trigger guard are slim to none for these long obsolete actions. Even if you did it would not be wise to remove metal from the front of the feed port as you would be weekening the lower locking abutment. If you did happen to find one, it would command a price greater than what the action, alone, would. Before I decided to responded to your post I took a quick look at a 'newer' Hornaday loading manual. OAL with all their bullets in .458 Win. would work and work well in a mag of 3.400" length. I don't know where your 'gunsmith' is coming up with the 3.5" inside mag length, as you stated in your post. Maybe he just doen't want to do the job? He must not be versed in Mauser '98s. As, many thousands of military Mauser 98s have been converted into sporters in all of the std. length magnum cartridges (.300 Win. Mag., 7mm Rem Mag, .338 , .264 , & 485 Win Mags). More info may be available on mausercentral.com [/QUOTE]
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