I bought a bunch of mauser stuff and one item was a mauser action that the guy said was a turkish mauser, but it doesn't look like any turk I've seen. I'm sure someone can tell me what variant of 98 this is:


It's got a lot of pitting below the wood line and it's been buffed to death, but I might build a cheap sporter out of it.

Weagle

Turk Mauser. Started life as a G98. Look at the face of the front ring, has it been counterbored? One thread rmoved?

The receiver face looks like someone tried to square it up with a file.

Measure the length of the front ring compared to a standard 98. If this one was counterbored then it should be about .100" shorter (roughly 1.600" vs roughly 1.700"). That might explain why it looks like it was cleaned up with a file. Does the receiver look like it has 4 1/2 or 5 threads?

The turks reworked a bunch of G98's into their so-called m38 configuration (at least thats what the importers call them). In doing so the receiver face was counterbored to make a lip for retaining the rear of the handguard. You'll note that this is a large ring action with large ring threads vs. the indigenously made actions which were nominally standard LR actions but they were threaded to accept SR barrels. Those actions had a slightly longer front ring by about .100" because they had a lip incorporated on them to retain the handguard. Most G98's were reworked during the 40's but the ATF marked ones like yours were done in the 50's.

zir, Thanks.

I'll probably use this one to experiment on.