I have been told i can rethread a m700 barrel to a small ring mauser. If this is true what model of mauser action should i look for? and what should it cost, roughly, to get this done? I have a variety of rem. 700 barrel's that i will chamber cast and maybe make a new toy with, if the above is true and i can find a reasonable action.Thanks Greg

Many of the Turk m38 rifles actually have small ring threads. All other dimensions are the same as m98's. That is they are m98/small rings.
A few of us have been taking the TURK actions and screwing in Swede take off barrels or new Swede replacement barrels.
Call it a TWEDE or a SWURK, you get the strength of a m98, so you can kinda' "hot rod" the 6.5x55, with a larger margin of safety.
One guy bought a bunch of the Turk cracked stock specials and a bunch of Swede take-off barrels. He found that around 8 out of ten could be matched to a Turk receiver to headspace properly with no lathe work.

Greg

To re thread and head space a Rem 700 barrel to fit a small shank mauser 98 in my area would cost between $75.00 and $95.00.

i have put together a few of these on t38 mausers. they are large ring but small thread. remington barrel works good. if you paying someone to do the work in the end its cheaper to buy a used mark10 or parker hale for 250.00 at a pawn shop or out of the paper. IMO...........

Someone just showed my a Rem 700 take off 300 Sav barrel on a '98 Mauser.
He TIG welded a washer and built up the threads.
He mangaged to do it without a reamer.

This is incredibly dangerous. The Remington breech is counterbored to allow for the bolt head. The mauser headspaces against an inner ring. If you simply rethread and adjust the headspace with a washer, then try to use the original spacer, the cartridge case is totally unsupported for a length of .14" in front of the receiver ring. There's no reason to suspect that the case wouldn't completely self destruct.

I think when the "fact" that Remington barrels could be rethreaded for Turkish mausers started making the rounds of the boards, there was an assumption that this meant you didn't have to rechamber. This isn't true at all. You can clean up the back of the barrel and reuse it, but chambering is necessary.