I recently bought a custom Mauser that has a hinged floor plate that I don't know much about. As I said the floor plate is hinged but the release has a lever akin to a double barrel shotgun action release lever but the tail end points towards the muzzle.
Can anyone point me in the right direction on finding out more about it.

Thanks in advance !

Hip

A lever was a common way to release the floorplates on commercial Mausers, particular before WWII. I own a Kurz Mauser from 1923 with that feature.

Google up Original Mauser lever release floor plate.
Idea has been used on a lot of customs.

Thanks metal----will do that !

Hip

Do-It-Yourself Gunsmithing - by Jim Carmichael shows you how they converted them.

This type:

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Originally posted by heavenknows:
This type:

That’s pretty fancy. I mean...Wow!

Heaven,
That's outa my league along with Nancy Pilosi !

Beautiful but too fancy for the woods !

Even the one that I got is outa my league !

Hip

Heavenknows, can you give some further details and maybe more pictures of that rifle, please?!

Hinged floor plates are definitely cool and everyone seems to want it. For whatever reason though I find I never actually use it.

Might make an exception for that plate though. Just too neat not to use.

Magazine box once made and offered by Recknagel(NECG)

The Rifle was made by Hans-Joachim Walther , the engraving by Heinz Funk Eckernförde.






Caliber 7x64
Rifle was offered last year on egun auction platform.

Heaven,

Beautiful rifle ! No my rifle release is different. If your holding the muzzle upward with the floorplate facing you, you would turn the lever 90 degrees to the right and that would release the floor plate. I have seen them pictured here but know nothing about them.

Hip

I know this is an old thread that I just came across. The rifle that heanenknows posted above from an egun auction had to be fraud. I have had that rifle in my possession for I would guess close to a decade.