Fully stock, with decent barrel. Could a chap modify the bolt face, set back the barrel and rechamber to .325 Winchester, or are these barrels just not goo d enough to justify this vs. rebarreling?

Could you? Yes. Should you? No. Would I? No. Setting back Mauser barrels is not easy as there is not enough material for new threads once you cut the old threads off. And picking up threads from existing ones is not fun.
Get a new barrel; It will be stronger than an original, which aren't all that fat in the breech area. And new ones are chrome moly instead of plain carbon with maybe some manganese and nickel.

Got it DP. Actually, I think most VZ 24s want to become .416 Taylors anyway ...

Yes, they do. Setting back Mauser barrels are hard/impossible since the thread shank is bigger than the outside shank. If you cut the threads off, there is nothing left to thread at 1.1 inch OD. I like vz24 actions; very uniform in quality, unlike others...

Bill, actually some (the over achievers) want to become 404 Jefferys...

One lives at my house.

Rich

Without photos, it didn't happen!

So bill none of your guns for sale don't happen

PD. I have a Sharps in the classifieds.

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So bill none of your guns for sale don't happen

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZing !

And now we know why the 8mm-06 exists

I got a catalog in the mail the other day and this supplier has 325 WSM's at a marked down price in Win M70's.
So cheap you couldn't buy a Mauser and rebarrel it and come out anywhere close.

a bit chappish are we...?

the VZ-24 404J goes to the stocker in four weeks. Five or six weeks later it will be shown here in all it's glory.

I had to make a choice between it and the Kobe OM 70 in 450/375 RUM (aka 460G&A MKII).

Buying that Gundermann pre-WWI O/U set me about two grand behind schedule.