I sold this gun to a customer back in the day as a beautiful rifle all matching save for the bolt. He gifts it to his brother and the gun ends up sitting in a soaking wet soft case long enough to destroy the bottom metal and all stock furniture.
There was some very light scattered pitting on the sides of the action, most of which came off with just a few minutes effort with 320 grit paper. The action will clean up just fine.

My friend has reclaimed this from his brother and asked me to sell it for him. I'm thinking I might want to buy it for my own use but have no idea what a fair value is on it. He's got the magazine follower but nothing else remains of the action.

What would be the going rate on what is seen here?

Thanks!

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I'd value it at somewhere around $125.

Thank you John
Anyone disagree wildly with that?

$125.00 is probably top dollar. I've seen some decent mauser actions in the $100.00 range lately at gun shows, but didn't really examine them.

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Comments - in terms of metalurgy - as a basis for a custom 35 Whelen?

I have one that is soft and the lugs are set back.
I paid $125 with all the parts and mil stock about 6 years ago.

Granted its a sample size of one.....

Eh, that's too bad.

Thanks for the feedback.

Mike

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Originally posted by Nomo4me:
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Comments - in terms of metalurgy - as a basis for a custom 35 Whelen?

I'm not sure the magazine is long enough. They were orifinaly 7x57 as you already know. I have two that Chile converted to 7.62 NATO and the magazines blocked off to make them even shorter. They seem to be OK with the .308 so if the magazine works out it should be OK for a Whelen. One of mine is still all milsurp but has a bad barrel I have plans for it down the road. The other was made into an ultra light weight mountain gun in .308 that weighs exactly 5 pounds loaded, scoped slung and ready to go.
They're nice actions; I like them.
Paul B.

There's a good chance it would feed the Whelen without any work at all, but might take a bit of tweaking. Standard length Mauser bottom metal is easy to open up for 35 Whelen but since this action doesn't have any now would be a good time to get bottom metal already fit to 30-06 length cartridges. IMO it would make a nice 35 Whelen.

Let the games begin.

Thanks for the notes, but I have to admit I just plucked Whelen out of the air as an example of a not-super-hot cartridge.

Don't know what I'll do with this one. Might just let my friend keep it.

Mike

100-150 depending if the bare and chamber are any good .. if not, then a heatreat and do anything you like

nice intact crest

is this the 29" barrel, or the shorter one? i bought a matching number long rifle from Big 5 years ago. tore it apart and when having the barrel removed, the action twisted. guy asked if it was in a fire or something. were it me, i would insist on the action being heat treated before anything was built on it.

heath

If I had my way it would still be in it's own skin - it was such a gorgeous rifle.

I'm wondering if the Germans pickled the bright finishes. My friend says the bottom metal was just a mass of swollen rust, yet the receiver had pitting so light below the woodline that I'll remove it with 320 wet/dry and not much effort. The barrel shows no rust as well. The gun case must have been laying on the floor zipper side up. Floor flooded, friend's brother never bothered to check the case.

Mike