Action Quiz.

Whats-it?

Off a Herters or?

Who wants to bet on how high the bids go? $500?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=96993173

It appears to be a "shortened" action.....not original.

I seriously don't think Herters was importing Mausers in 1952......I thin k it was much later in the '60s.

It looks like it was shortened before it was allowed to rust.

Just wondering, a thumb slot in the left rail on a commercial FN in 1952? Maybe military 1952 and shortened?

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Originally posted by AfricanHunter:
Just wondering, a thumb slot in the left rail on a commercial FN in 1952? Maybe military 1952 and shortened?

Someone could just have easily added the ass end of a military action to a '52 commercial FN front. An interesting hodge-podge of parts. Looks like a '91 bolt stop. And the handle makes me wonder if they didn't use the tail-end of a 93-96 bolt? In any case, the condition is kinda poor and would require lots of cleanup.

Whoever Dr. Frankenstein was, it appears on the surface that he did a pretty good job from what I can see. But like a woman, the true test will be what it looks like when it opens it's mouth. I wouldn't bid on anything based on outward appearance, I would wan't to see the feed rails and mag well. Interesting though.

I would like to see the bolt taken apart & the underside of the action rails.

This is NOT something I would feel comfortable buying from a website.

SDH,
If it was it might explain why it is rusted. He never finished it.
Butch

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Originally posted by SDH:
Probably made by some lyin, cheatin, lazy ass, good fer nothin, sumbitch gunsmith.
Eh, Forrest?

Nope. This project looks completed.

LOL

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Originally posted by ForrestB:

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Originally posted by SDH:
Probably made by some lyin, cheatin, lazy ass, good fer nothin, sumbitch gunsmith.
Eh, Forrest?

Nope. This project looks completed.

And it will probably be delivered in less than a year.

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Originally posted by tnekkcc:
It looks like it was shortened before it was allowed to rust.

that's patina to you!!!
it covers the weldement

boy, talk about a "good" idea gone wrong

Major parts are rusted but trigger assembly and other parts are not - somebody must have found it and put it together long after the work was done.

Wonder why they didn't fill in the thumb cut on the left rail after going to all the other trouble? Makes me think ti may be from Europe- they aren't as bothered as Americans by the cut.

I could be wrong (highly unlikely) HAR! but it kind of looks like a Polish Mauser...Notice the bolt face does not have the "protrusion" opposite the exractor? Never could figure out the reason this would be missing, since ejection is VERY unreliable,

I don'think it's a Herter, since the ones I've seen have a solid L. receiver wall...but they DO have the above described bolt face. and they were made in Yugoslavia...Forrest: you should buy this to keep anyone else from getting it!

[QUOTE]But like a woman, the true test will be what it looks like when it opens it's mouth.

Malm, now that's funny.

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This is NOT something I would feel comfortable buying from a website

You are absolutley correct Forrest. It does look to be well done on the surface. I would have to have it in hand to take apart & examine it close up.

I hope that it wasn't one our members that had to pay that high of price. It got a little rich for me.
Butch

Wow. What make this action worth $800.00?

If the pitting is light and "IF" the work was done properly and it is all there? Who knows? I would like to know more about it. I am contemplating cutting one of my pre64 receivers.
Butch

Butch

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Originally posted by DC Roxby:
Wow. What make this action worth $800.00?

Nothing more than ludicrous consumer behavior and exposure generated by the internet. Posting the link to this forum probably got it a few bids and certainly drove up the view count likely contributing to the bidding furor.

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Originally posted by Chisana:

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Originally posted by DC Roxby:
Wow. What make this action worth $800.00?

Nothing more than ludicrous consumer behavior and exposure generated by the internet. Posting the link to this forum probably got it a few bids and certainly drove up the view count likely contributing to the bidding furor.

Or, Somebody wanted it really badly.

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Originally posted by DC Roxby:
Wow. What make this action worth $800.00?

If you know a smith that is competent to shorten a Mauser action by cutting and welding together, ask him to quote you an '98 action so shortened....

You might be surprised what it costs to get one that way.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Originally posted by DC Roxby:
Wow. What make this action worth $800.00?

If you know a smith that is competent to shorten a Mauser action by cutting and welding together, ask him to quote you an '98 action so shortened....

You might be surprised what it costs to get one that way.

Yeah, but at least you'd know what you were getting. There is no way I'd ever buy something like that sight unseen and without knowing who performed the work.

That would be sort of like buying a heart transplant off Ebay.

One thing I am pretty sure about, that is a Santa Barbara trigger assembly.

Lee440, Now that you mention it, I think your right about that bein a trigger off a santa barbara. They are screwed on through the top of the tang.