A local gunsmith had this barrel in 9.3x64. I had never heard of the maker, perhaps someone here has. It needs to be cleaned up, as someone took off the barrel and gouged the flats of the octogon area. It also has some rust, though no real pitting. The rifling is excellent, full rib, round-octogon-round. I'm hoping to fit this to a mauser action, as that's what it came off.

I was hoping that someone here has heard of the maker, and or can comment on the workmanship. I fully understand that its not pristine and will require lots of careful restoration, but I'm pretty excited to get it shooting.

Here you go:

Good find. Don't know anything about the maker. A good smith should be able to file most of the flats back pretty close if careful.

Stukenbrok was a wholesale dealer , not only of hunting associated items located in Einbeck.

He never produced firearms.

The barrel was certainly made in Suhl and I doubt if it was originally chambered for the 9,3x64.

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Originally posted by heavenknows:

The barrel was certainly made in Suhl and I doubt if it was originally chambered for the 9,3x64.

Agreed. The gunsmith also told me that someone most likely opened it up to that chambering.

Really nice find, I am jealous. A rather interesting way to build a fine rifle-kind of reverse of what is routinely done. Good to go, eh?

Stephen

I ran across a deal on a used barrel like that years ago. It started out as an old .318 (8mm) and the bore looked like a sewer pipe. It was re-bored to a .338 and re-chambered to a .338-06.

The barrel was fit to an oddball mauser action and became the center point for a pretty neat low dollar custom rifle. It's been a lot of fun so far.

I hope you find a fun project to use yours on.

Terry