DIY Receiver

21 January 2012, 19:35

Austin Hunter

DIY Receiver

Found this while searching Google for "surface grind mauser"

Hobbyist makes his own M98 receiver (not the bolt) from scratch after teaching himself.

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/boltaction.htm

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25 January 2012, 17:51

Austin Hunter

I read somewhere that the original Mauser factory had around 660 steps making a M98.

25 August 2012, 22:42

SR4759

Mauser had the resources to build 3K or 4k a day.
Building receivers is much easier when you have a machine and or fixture designed to make each cut - not to mention highly skilled personel that may have been doing that work for decades.

15 January 2013, 05:29

impingement

Remember that a lot of the work was accomplished by forging. When you mass produce, you can invest the money to forge parts. Having read this article many years ago and having completely scratch built two 98 clones when I was in my early 20's (about 35 years ago), I will tell you that I would have much rather started with a forged bolt and receiver.

15 January 2013, 20:48

mete

Some years back there was a fellow on the forum who decided to make his own rifle .When finished he proceeded to win his country's championship !!

20 January 2013, 00:17

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by Austin Hunter:
I read somewhere that the original Mauser factory had around 660 steps making a M98.

It would be interesting to know how many steps there were in making this receiver alone.

I did find it odd that he went to so much trouble to recreate the "Mauser look" in so many areas, but cut corners in other areas(the recoil lug, for example).

And, as I am too lazy to read the whole thing, can anyone tell me how he his receiver accomplishes primary extraction? It looks like he omitted the cam at the rear of the receiver bridge.

Jason

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27 January 2013, 03:20

p dog shooter

Why go through all the trouble of making a 98 when a 700 or savage is so much simpler.

28 January 2013, 23:16

Mike Scott

Are there any simple designs for a cartridge based firearm that is possible to make or copy with hand tools in a "reasonable" amount of time? I know you can buy unfinished AR receivers and finish them but I'm thinking something more like copying the parts of a falling block single shot.

05 May 2013, 02:52

TomP

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Scott:
Are there any simple designs for a cartridge based firearm that is possible to make or copy with hand tools in a "reasonable" amount of time? I know you can buy unfinished AR receivers and finish them but I'm thinking something more like copying the parts of a falling block single shot.

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