Weird gun show Mauser

[Doc1]

This past weekend I picked up a really strange-looking, but kinda' cool K98 at the Biloxi, MS gun show. The price was a real bargain, too.

It's a fairly pretty Turk large ring receiver that sits in a well-executed sporterized .mil stock. The weird part is that it has a large winter trigger guard (unmarked) and sports a commercial Remington 30-06 barrel, with the original Remington sights! What a combination, eh?

There is very little play in the bolt and the bore is mirror bright and free of pitting. I haven't shot it yet, but can't wait.

Best part? I grabbed it for a hundred bucks :-)

Best regards
Doc

[Hardcast416taylor]

I used to call these "master pieces" Frankenstein rifles, being made up from various parts not really from the original rifle. Now adays I merely call them "shooters". Sounds like the price was right.Robert

[357maximum]

Frankenguns are fun, and the price is normally right as you have found[smilie=p:.......look forward to a range report.

[Cbenc1]

Lets see some pictures. I have a soft spot for bargain guns when I find them at the gun show. Most of them I have acquired shoot pretty well, and if they dont, its back on the operating table to turn them into something else.

[Bret4207]

There ain't nothin' wrong with cheap guns. As long as they're safe and you're happy the rest of the world can go hug a root!

[Doc1]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/picture.php?albumid=340&pictureid=2349

[Doc1]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/picture.php?albumid=340&pictureid=2348

[WILCO]

Best part? I grabbed it for a hundred bucks..

Nice. Makes me sad to know I missed a gun show two weeks ago. Who knows what frankenguns were lurking there. Pics look good.

[Hardcast416taylor]

DOC1. "IT`S ALIVE....IT`s ALIVE!!!!! HAHAHAHA.....ROBERT

[richbug]

I'd call it a Turkington myself. I have a couple.

[Elkins45]

Do the Turk and the Remington have the same barrel threads or did someone have to machine new threads onto the barrel?

[flounderman]

some of the large ring turks, have small ring threads. you can machine new small ring threads under the remington threads. I been doing it for years. unless you use a spacer, the chamber has to be redone.

[Cbenc1]

Looks good Doc1, I'm betting it will shoot good too.

[220swiftfn]

Good snag....... good price..... good god, that thing coulda fought WWII by/with itself!!! :)

Dan

[220swiftfn]

Even better, NOBODY will yell at you if you decide to put a scope on, bend the bolt etc.

Dan

[mroliver77]

Even better, NOBODY will yell at you if you decide to put a scope on, bend the bolt etc.

Dan
I like you line of thinking, Dan.
Jay

[218bee]

Its rare that I buy a brand spankin new gun. I had the bug for cheap single shot shotguns awhile back and picked up 4-5 for a total of less tha 200 bucks. I have fun shooting blackpowder shotshells through them and blasting varmints around the "ranch". Had everyone totally apart and always learn something about how they work or how different manufacturers achieve the same thing with different parts. For me thats 30 or 50 bucks well spent.
Hope yours turns out well...I bet it will

[M4Sherman]

I picked up a franken Mauser a couple of years ago and have yet to figure out what it shoots but the rifle it-self is very neat and very well built. enjoy your new toy it could possible be the most accurate rifle you own.

[Doble Troble]

Check the headspace!

[TCLouis]

I think those used to be called Turkingtons.

When was it, 5-10 years ago this was being done to get a great shooter at a reasonable price.

[Crash_Corrigan]

I just won this franken mauser on Auction Arms:

http://www.auctionarms.com/Closed/DisplayItem.cfm?ItemNum=9762082.0

I had to have another 8 MM Mauser because I have all these chunks of brass, completed rounds, molds and boolits in 8 MM calibre that were going to go to waste.

This will be a shooter as I have a decent scope for it along with the rings needed. As I already have a Garand, a SMLE in 303 Brit and a 6.5 MM rifle I pretty much have WWII covered except for the Russians.

With a loaded down loading my Old 98/22 Mauser of Czech manfacture (1924) was a tack driver at 100 yds and produced little report nor recoil. However it was too long and ungainley for carry about. It now is a 6.5 x 55 Sweede in a thumbhole stock and reblued and completly worked over.