hey... can you do this with a mauser? seems like you might be at risk on "mag" geometery, but that would/could give another 1/8- 3/16 mad width





I've got a london gun bottom coming, but this just piqued my interest



jeffe

Jeffe,

You could always try it and if if didnt work, just tell everyone you forgot.

I noticed a box mag for a 700 rem setting on my bench and wondered what it went to. About two yrs later I took my 25/06 apart and noticed it didnt have a box in it, shoot that 25/06 quite a bit within that two yrs.

Pre-war Mannlicher-Schoenauers had the cartridges rubbing against the sides of the stock, and that was with a rotary magazine!

Doug,
what is you glassed the sides and left (or added) sheetmetal to the front and rear?

just some random thoughts, that i be have been tried before

jeffe

Its worth a try. I also forgot to wonder about side to side wobble of the follower since it will be a bit narrow with the box removed. Hmmmmm?



I almost forgot. The wife said a package from Porter Tex came in. I'm at work in the gulf right now.

Doug,
Hmm, i wonder what that could be!!

jeffe

Jeffe, I have a Mk X 375 H&H that was put into a drop-belly synthetic stock that required new bottom metal. We could not find a magazine extended to the front like the MK X at the time so we just cut out the front of another to clear the bullet tips. I wouldn't do it on a fine custom project but it has worked perfectly through 17 years and 3 caliber changes including 300/8Mag, 375 AI and now 416 Remington. The front of the mag well has not been battered at all. As for side clearance, if you have a little wobble in the follower just cut and bond some sheet metal plates to the sidewalls of the mag well or trap them between the receiver parts. It'll work; it just ain't pretty.

If it was me, I'd try some 6 oz woven fiberglass cloth and the epoxy I use for building ceder strip canoes. That would give a slippery, but durable inside, and take a little of the follower wobble out. The epoxy turns the cloth translucent so the wood would show right through. I think it could work nicely and look fine.