Char-Gar
07-01-2007, 04:17 PM
I spent yesterday morning at the range with my Mauser sporter which is still a work in progress. My purpose was to fire for 80 cases with full snort condum bullet loads. Now, I will just neck size them for us with cast bullets.
The rifle is fitted with a Redfield receiver sight and I built the stock by try and feel. I closed my eyes, mounted the rifle and when I opened my eyes, I was looking through the peep and the front sight was more or less in the middle of the peep.
Anyway... Yesterday I was suprise how well the stock handled recoil. The rifle has a steel buttplate and I only had on a T-shirt. 80 rounds of factory level loads didn't cause me any discomfort at all.
I decided to measure the drop at the heel of the stock. In the old days, you had to buy or make some kind of gage. This time I stuck my bore cleaning guide in the action, wraped the rod with making tape until it was a snug fit in the opening funnel of the bore guide. The rod was now centered down the bore. It was then a very simple thing to measure the distance from the rod to the heel of the buttstock.
The drop at the heel was 1 1/8 inch. The drop at the comb is 1/4 inch. That is what is right for me, a mauser action and a receiver sight. It is handy to know these things.
The rifle is fitted with a Redfield receiver sight and I built the stock by try and feel. I closed my eyes, mounted the rifle and when I opened my eyes, I was looking through the peep and the front sight was more or less in the middle of the peep.
Anyway... Yesterday I was suprise how well the stock handled recoil. The rifle has a steel buttplate and I only had on a T-shirt. 80 rounds of factory level loads didn't cause me any discomfort at all.
I decided to measure the drop at the heel of the stock. In the old days, you had to buy or make some kind of gage. This time I stuck my bore cleaning guide in the action, wraped the rod with making tape until it was a snug fit in the opening funnel of the bore guide. The rod was now centered down the bore. It was then a very simple thing to measure the distance from the rod to the heel of the buttstock.
The drop at the heel was 1 1/8 inch. The drop at the comb is 1/4 inch. That is what is right for me, a mauser action and a receiver sight. It is handy to know these things.