Anyone done one? I will not pay $50 for something I can make better in a half hour on the mill.

The rifle is a Turk. My plan right now is to remove the sight and replace it with a block that fits the same. The block will then receive a Weaver generic sight base rail. The red dot sight goes on that. The barrel gets repaced with a 16" 45ACP one, but that is irrelevent. Do you have anything to pass along from your experience with such work? Any on line pictures?

Do a search on here because this topic was discussed within the last month or so.

45 ACP! Just go ahead & do it in 50 Beauwolf.

If you're going to rebarrel anyway why not just bolt the Weaver base directly on the barrel? If you plan ahead you can even have the new barrel turned to a radius that fits an existing base (think Contender or Encore). Good hunting!

Yes, I did it once with an Argentine Mauser that was too nice to butcher up. Put a intermediate-eye relief scope on it. It worked, but was unsatisfactory in other ways (weight, balance, clumsiness, etc.)

If you send me your E-Mail Add. I'll send you some photos of mountings I've done on the Mauser rear sights to mount scopes. There is an alum. one on the market that I saw fail miserably. The ones I've designed are of steel. roger

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This is what I am assembling. Click on the Mauser kit. It is for a co-worker. It is a bit crude. The price is low though. I guess you get what you pay for. It is about the most econimical way to make a 45ACP bolt gun.

I would much rather see a full length barrel. I would guess they are getting two barrels out of one blank. I also do not care for the Savage style barrel nut. Hey, it is a project to keep busy with and some goodies traded to me for my work.

The reason for using a sight base mount is that the new barrel is made to the same contour as the old. The sight base will slip on and solder in place. I hope to retain some of the military look.

This looks like a perfect application for the scout style scope. roger

Here is a 45acp Mauser I made in 1999 with a 1903 Turk, a Shilen .452" barrel blank, drilling a tapping for Weaver mounts #45 and #46, bending the bolt with an Oxyaccetalene set up. Shoots a 4" 20 shot group at 100m.

You can buy a bent bolt body on Ebay. There is a guy who does hundreds of them.