I am considering building a rifle on a Turkish action. I have seen some comments about a difference in action threads. Is this a good action? Is it an intermediate action like the M48?

I have read that the Turkish 98's were made
in Germany but all the one's I have and have come across seem to be Turkish and from what I understand even tho the action is a large ring the barrels are theaded like a small ring.
Maybe someone that has more experience can say for sure
SS

I have built a custom rifle on a Turkish Mauser, and can tell you a bit about it.

First, do this only if you enjoy a good project. If you are doing it to save money, forget it. It is cheaper to just go out and buy what you want.

I started with a $50 Big 5 Turkish Mauser. MOST of them are a large ring action, with small ring threads. A Swedish Mauser barrel has the right thread, and can be fit witha little "body and fender" work.

A Remington barrel thread can be turned down to fit the small ring threads. Hence, you can start with a $50 Mauser and a brand new $40 or so take-off Remington barrel. That's what I did... 24" SS barrel.

I did all the clean-up and polishing of the bolt, action, etc., and ground off the excess weld from re-attaching the bolt handle. Grinding the bridge, drilling and tapping for scope, re-bluing, and turning down the handle cost me $125. Add $38 for a Timney trigger, and about another $38 for Leopold rings.

At first, I just "bubba'd" the military stock, which was adequate. Right now I'm finishing up a custom stock, that floats the barrel and beds the action.

It was a lot of work. And it will be a nice rifle... just what I want for elk and such. Money saved? No chance! A lot of fun, but I wouldn't do it twice. My general recommendation on milsurps is to just shoot them as they are.

First you need to be sure which action you are getting. There are basically 4 Turk actions. The 93, which is a small ring action. The 1903 which is a large ring action but uses an intermediate length bolt. There are the gew 98's which are true large rings. And finally the K.Kale actions which are large rings but have a small ring shank size. They are also about .100" longer due to a lip on the front ring to hold the handguard.

The vz24 or 98/22 Is easyer. The small ring turk make chosing a barrel easyer. The barrel die from brownells cost almost $100.00 with shiping. A new barrel will make a Turk shoot.

Lots and lots of variation in the Turk, M-38, but also some variation in the Turk generally.

There is the 1903 and I think an 1896 . . . don't quote me here.

Turks put a lot of variations together in order to fight a war. The 98/22 is Turk variation.

If you don't know your Turks, it's hard to know what you have, but at $35 to $50 . . . It's hard to go wrong if you get one that's not beat to death.

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If you want to do it really cheap you could use a Turk, if you want something nice. Start out with a better action, a 1909 Argy, or a VZ-24.