In Reply to: "Vintage" Type People posted by geezerrocket on September 25, 2016 at 11:38:29:
High scope-mounts with a peep-sight under, old sight-protective leaves gone.
Very smooth, fast, and accurate. Cock on closing, like Lee actions, but with Mauser 98 rib and front lugs.
Great big solid receiver. Unburstable. But, too long for trenches.
The one gun I really, really, really regret selling.
From 130 grains up to 220s.
Every other Mauser action rifle I had went tight quickly on feral pigs in mobs.
The only other gun I retain affection for was a very light-weight Parker-Hale Mauser '98 action in .243 Win which I took a few deer with - including Sambar - down in SE coastal / Great Dividing Range cold rain-forest.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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Follow Ups
- Hi there! M1917 Enfield action in a sporter stock. - Timbo in Oz 04:45:02 09/27/16 (11)
- RE: Hi there! M1917 Enfield action in a sporter stock. - Bold Eagle 09:21:33 09/28/16 (7)
- "More of those were used by the US forces in WWI than the Springfield." - Timbo in Oz 15:08:28 09/28/16 (6)
- RE: "More of those were used by the US forces in WWI than the Springfield." - Bold Eagle 19:02:08 09/28/16 (5)
- The Second Boer War and the theory of small-arms fire - Timbo in Oz 21:44:23 09/28/16 (4)
- RE: The Second Boer War and the theory of small-arms fire - Bold Eagle 08:56:04 09/29/16 (3)
- Here ya go! eh? - Timbo in Oz 01:48:36 12/19/16 (0)
- Cock on closing does not require extra force, and thus it moves the weapon less. - Timbo in Oz 12:28:53 09/29/16 (1)
- Cock on openig rotates the weapon. - Timbo in Oz 01:43:51 12/19/16 (0)
- RE: Hi there! M1917 Enfield action in a sporter stock. - geezerrocket 05:26:50 09/27/16 (2)
- Love classic valve amps, too, but I'm not an originalist. - Timbo in Oz 11:10:11 09/27/16 (1)
- RE: Love classic valve amps, too, but I'm not an originalist. - Timbo in Oz 11:14:23 09/27/16 (0)