K-98 Action.

[jim]

Where can I get one for a decent price? I want to rebarrel it in .308 and add a Scout scope for a knock around hunting rifle. Not interested in a Yugo.

jim

[Oblio13]

By the time you rebarrel it, drill and tap for scope mounts, add a stock with a higher comb, and have some trigger work done, you'll have spent more than a modern commercial rifle of better quality would cost.

[Mr.B]

Like stated above Id go with a commercial rifle you might/will save $$$. But if you really need that K98 action Id hit up a gun show or shotgun news. Also many gun shops have sporterized K-98’s for a decent price.

-B

[Teg]

Where can I get one for a decent price? I want to rebarrel it in .308 and add a Scout scope for a knock around hunting rifle. Not interested in a Yugo.

jim

Lots of places out there that have them but I was browsing the other day and this site has a couple types of 98s available. http://www.floridagunworks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=CR+R

[jim]

Gents

Thanks for the help.

I had intended on using a standard K98 stock or whatever is cheaper. There is a scope mount on the market that will fasten on right where the rear sight assy is and that should be cheaper than drilling and tapping. I can do the trigger job or add one.

Sometimes I'm just too much of a nitpicker. I was thinking that the Mauser push-feed system where the cartridge rim slides up under the extractor and pushes any gunk out of the bolt area would be just the thing. But in reality, since it will never get as dirty as the battlefiled conditions it was designed to operate under, I don't need the K98 action, and a commercial action would work just fine. Except for shooting at the range, my hunting guns are always extremely clean when I hit the field.

jim

[Pitdog]

Jim the best deals i find are ones that have already been bubbaed, then I undo the bubbaing and make it right. If you find an action you want to play with, let me know, you know I'll take care of you. Let me know which direction you want to go and I will give you some ideas of cost. Cost is relative to what you want to do and more so what you want it to look like.

[jim]

Thanks!!! I appreciate that!

[Teg]

Jim the best deals i find are ones that have already been bubbaed, then I undo the bubbaing and make it right. If you find an action you want to play with, let me know, you know I'll take care of you. Let me know which direction you want to go and I will give you some ideas of cost. Cost is relative to what you want to do and more so what you want it to look like.

True if ya go over to Simpsons Ltd. you can find a bunch of "sport" Mausers for sale cheap.

http://www.simpsonltd.com/index.php?cPath=350_358&page=1&sort=4a&osCsid=6ea0064bd8d03352c57a41541dbca2b6

[Pitdog]

Jim I found my .308 reamer on the bench of my old lathe I sold last week. I got a Parker Hale take off barrel in excellent shape I am going to screw onto an action and drop into some manner of stock out of my pile. I do the Mausers out of a love for doing them, it is virtually impossible to make any money out of them unless you can really find some one who wants to make a true custom rifle off of the action. I drill and tap and forge bolt handles all the time, screw and unscrew barrels, ream, headspace, inlet, glass bed, blue- and then I wake up from the terrible nightmare and actually start doing it! LOL.
I'm working at turning one into a .338 Win for BIG game adventures, and I have a Swede that was hacked up that has been rescued and I am making a stock for it currently. It's a labor of love.

[jim]

Pit

You have managed to combine your vocation and avocation. Few can say that. I always enjoyed refinishig stocks, cabinits and other wood items. Bring it down to the bare wood, and finish it off with 0000 steel wool then hand rub in the finish.

jim

[ArmySGT.]

By the time you rebarrel it, drill and tap for scope mounts, add a stock with a higher comb, and have some trigger work done, you'll have spent more than a modern commercial rifle of better quality would cost.

None of that is necessary if it is like he says equipped with a scout scope mount. Buy an Israeli barrel in 7.62 NATO it is already stepped. have the action blueprinted and the barrel installed. A timney trigger cleaned up and installed should be less than a hundred.