Please don't destroy a nice piece of Military history. Maybe you should just list it for sale, and find some beater to destroy.
I tend to agree with this. Finding a more common 8mm Mauser like a Turk or a Yugo might be a better (and less expensive) option for using as your base gun.
I think by converting from the 308 rifle you would not have to modify the chamber as much.. where as if you had the 8mm mauser there would be extra costs.. 308 & 338 are the same case length. Hell plus if the gun was 8mm why do it, you have more power with that round.. But I am an 8mm bigot..
I am intrigued, any idea what kind of cost one would look at to do such a thing????
just how would he be able to shoot a .338 Dia. bullet out of a .308 Dia. barrel?
just how would he be able to shoot a .338 Dia. bullet out of a .308 Dia. barrel?
Oh the barrel will have to be changed.. I am sure the OP knows that.
Looking at maybe reboring to .338 Federal a Mauser refit by the Israelis to .308.
Anybody worked over the Israeli refits? Good points, bad points?
He appears to be planning to have the barrel bored out to .338. My guess is that regardless of whether he insists on doing this or acquires a different Mauser action of little historic significance, he will find it a more economical option to simply buy a .338 barrel chambered to his preferred cartridge.
Who's going to bore out the barrel and re rifle it ? Was he just thinking about the chamber?
I think he posted this using that rifle to "stir the pot" or troll, maybe bragging about what he has