brasshog
04-10-2023, 12:10 AM
This poor lass was a pawn shop find. She was in sad condition with a busted synthetic stock and a broken fore bolt. She sports an 18" 1 in 14 twist barrel (made by C.R. Pedersen & Son) and a Bold trigger on her Carl Gustaf Swedish Mauser M96 receiver made in 1919. I added a Bell & Carlson synthetic stock with aluminum bedding block and rear pillar. The barrel is now free floated and the channel glass bed. The scope is a Vortex Crossfire II illuminated model 3x9x50. The mounts are Burris extra high rise so that the bolt handle just barley clears. The scope mount pattern was a very old pattern that was almost impossible to match with a set of rings so I had Murphy Precision build me a stainless steel picatinny 0MOA rail and coat it black. They did an excellent job. Of course I replaced the broken fore screw. She loves Federal 225gr Trophy Bonded Bear claw factory ammo. Cast 202gr HP rounds are gentle to shoot at 2000-2500 fps.
Note-She likes all of the miscellaneous brass that I have converted. She dislikes both factory and converted Federal brass completely except the factory Federal nickel brass. She will not grab yellow Federal brass out of the chamber for some reason. In a post about this rifle in the "Military Firearms" on this site it was suggested that the weight of the federal brass was around 200gr and that might be an indicator of the issue somehow. I don't fully understand it yet.
Total weight of rifle is 8.5 lbs
Before
312808
312810
Now
312809
312811
312812
Note-She likes all of the miscellaneous brass that I have converted. She dislikes both factory and converted Federal brass completely except the factory Federal nickel brass. She will not grab yellow Federal brass out of the chamber for some reason. In a post about this rifle in the "Military Firearms" on this site it was suggested that the weight of the federal brass was around 200gr and that might be an indicator of the issue somehow. I don't fully understand it yet.
Total weight of rifle is 8.5 lbs
Before
312808
312810
Now
312809
312811
312812