If you had a few mauser actions....

[Sniper338]

What caliber would you build?
What kinda stock would you use?

Need some ideas, I may be given a few action... i would put 3k into each.. so new barrel, 300 or less on a stock... etc.. cheaper good shooters is what id be after...

 

[Gabe22BR]

Sell it, buy a good custom action

 

[Bc'z]

6.5x55

 

[onelastshot]

7x57 it's a natural combination.

 

[ebb]

Which action? small ring? large ring? I really makes a difference. I want to build a Tweede but I am too late and all the Swedish barrels are gone. If you spend 3K on a Mauser action do it like Butch's guns, but he has way more than that in his.

 

[STOMP442]

Depends on what Mauser actions you are being given. Not all Mausers are created equal. But my top three are as follows.

1. .257AI
2. 6.55x55
3. 7x57AI

 

[jghoghunter]

There is nothing wrong with a nice mauser action. If your building a nice hunting rifle at normal ranges. 257 Rob, 7x57, 6.5x55, 35 Whelen are 4 classic calibers that come to mind. As far as stocks go a nice burled black walnut would be nice. I can make you one if you like.

 

[Lee in Texas]

8mm-'06.

 

[Sniper338]

We will see, I donno what kind of mauser actions it is yet... just figured they would make a good action for something thats not an everyday shooter for me or an odd ball

 

[Murray Brook]

280AI

 

[simo hayha]

Be different..... 7.o8ai

 

[eas1949]

9.3x62

 

[scubohuntr]

7X57, .257 Roberts, or a .35 Whelen. Keep it classic, no Weatherby type stocks, thumbholes, laminates or maple. I built a 7X57 on a Spanish Mauser decades ago, with an exhibition-grade myrtle stock with steel buttplate and skeleton gripcap, Sako scope mounts, flush mount swivels. Pretty rifle; but didn't shoot very well. Hope the burglars shot themselves in the foot with it.

 

[theMadAlaskan]

African style 375 H&H.

 

[Just Say Moe]

Pick 3 out of the list below and do an X x57 trifecta:
6mm Remington (6x57)
257 Roberts (25x57)
6.5x57
7x57
8x57
9 or 9.3x57

If you don't want that, I'd do a 338-06 and a 6.5x57.

 

[300_whisper]

Paper weight

 

[300_whisper]

 

[Riesel]

I built a 6.5-.284 on a good solid Mauser 98 and really like it. I got a little carried away with the barrel and now it's a bit heavy to do a lot of walking but it's a real shooter. Keep in mind Mauser's feed from the magazine as a controlled round feed unless the claw extractor has been reworked.

 

[Sniper338]

I built a 6.5-.284 on a good solid Mauser 98 and really like it. I got a little carried away with the barrel and now it's a bit heavy to do a lot of walking but it's a real shooter. Keep in mind Mauser's feed from the magazine as a controlled round feed unless the claw extractor has been reworked.

I know nothing about them except when cleaned up and rebuilt they shoot good

 

[Lee in Texas]

Paper weight

Not a bad idea.