What do you have to do to a mauser extractor to allow the extractor to slip over the rim?
Butch

Nothing. You just put on the hollow follower bought at Brownells. No altering or smithing, back to original in seconds and look real good.


http://www.brownells.com/aspx/...BENCHREST%20FOLLOWER

Bent,
Does that mean you don't have to grind on the extractor to feed single shot with the follower?
Butch

I'm not a gunsmith, but I swear like one on the internet.

IIRC, the extractor has to be altered to do what you describe.

A '98 can be singly loaded without putting the round down in the magazine by pressing in on the back of the extractor as the round is nearly chambered. I imagine this rocks the extractor away from the bolt slightly, enough to get the extractor over the rim.

This isn't what you want to do, I expect.

I am asking this for a shooter on another forum. I know it can happen, just don't know how it is done.
Butch

butch,
in answer to your question about filing the extractor when using brownel's single shot follower........
that is correct, it's a simple "put the part in and away you go" operation. the follower's pocket holds the round right down the middle of the magazine, at the right height for the bolt face to push it ahead and up under the extractor, the same as the normal controlled feed process.
there's not much you can do to a mauser extractor to make it single feed decently. fileing back enough to make them snap over the rim might make for extraction problems and not doing anything usually makes them break.... don't ask me how i know this....

I'm certainly not going to ask you. Did you have a bad experience?
Butch

Duane W posted a detailed how-to on this a while back.

I've never built a 98 that I didn't fit the extractor to single feed. Never broken one either.

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Originally posted by gunmaker:
Duane W posted a detailed how-to on this a while back.

I've never built a 98 that I didn't fit the extractor to single feed. Never broken one either.

X2

A rifle that you cannot immediately close the bolt on a hastily thrown round too me is useless. I make it a point to make the modification on every Mauser action I do.

Butch he needs to change, "Steepen" (is that even a word?), the angle of the hook so that it will spring out and over the rim of the cartridge. I'll be doing one in the next few days. I'll try and take some photo's for you if he can wait a day or three.

Malm, I'm not in a hurry. I don't think he is either.
Thanks Butch

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Originally posted by Westpac:
A rifle that you cannot immediately close the bolt on a hastily thrown round too me is useless. I make it a point to make the modification on every Mauser action I do.

I hear you, Malm, but I kind of make a point in following my customers wishes as long - as it is not unsafe or fugly

The way I see things, in order for a gun to be 100 percent reliable, it must be able to feed under all conditions. Including panick. That little 10 minute extractor modification is part of the "reliability" package the customer purchases at the time the work order is written. And once the customer understands the reasoning and benefit behind the modification, they are always good to go. But it can't be fugly!

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Originally posted by Bent Fossdal:
Nothing. You just put on the hollow follower bought at Brownells. No altering or smithing, back to original in seconds and look real good.


http://www.brownells.com/aspx/...BENCHREST%20FOLLOWER

Might it be a single shot solid bottom one he is wondering about?

The M70 extractor is a Mauser extractor that has the hook shortened and beveled to push over the rim.

You can just start grinding, or you can look at an M70 extractor first. I have done it both ways.

It is hard to believe that I have done something in gunsmthing that Butch has not

There is a hell of a lot that I haven't done or know about.
That is why this forum is so valuable to me.
Butch

He can probably buy a new MK X extractor on eBay or Gunbroker for a few bucks and intall it on his bolt. I'm getting old but think I remember all the Zastava rifles single feed.