Originally Posted by
Ballistics in Scotland
It is a great pity that Brownells, and so far as I know other suppliers, no longer stock long chambered barrels, for which the Mauser 98 almost uniquely suitable. The 98 barrel tightens up not on the front of the action (though good gunsmiths usually try for contact there too), but on the internal stop-ring. With a short chambered barrel you just fit it and deepen the chamber with a chamber reamer. But with the long chambered one, you just remove metal from the rear surface of the barrel until the headspace becomes correct. With care you could do it with a file.