What model of rifle is this? (280)
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It appears to be a sporterized version of the Mauser 98. With an unknown bore/barrel condition it should stiil be worth $150 - $200 with the double set triggers ... as a project.
If the bore is good you could have the metal refinished and the stock carefully refinished and the checkering recut for probably somewhat less than $1000
If the bore is good you could have the metal refinished and the stock carefully refinished and the checkering recut for probably somewhat less than $1000
I was going to guess a type b Oberndorf Mauser sporter but that rounded pistol grip throws me off as does the bent bolt. You could post some better pictures with lighting so we can see the action more clearly and any markings of course.
Continue down the Mauser rabbit hole with this little beauty as a potential cousin/ comparison:
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...--checkered-walnut-stock.cfm?gun_id=101528564
Continue down the Mauser rabbit hole with this little beauty as a potential cousin/ comparison:
https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...--checkered-walnut-stock.cfm?gun_id=101528564
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It's a military Mauser that's been sporterized, probably between the wars. It's unlikely that it was originally a .280. More likely that it was a 7x57 or 7x64 that was rechambered.
If it was originally 7x57, expect some odd looking brass when you fire it, because a .280 reamer won't fully clean up a 7x57 chamber at the neck.
Everything depends on the bore condition. If the bore is in the same condition as the outside of the rifle, then it's basically worth what you can get for the action.
Unless you do the work yourself, you'll spend more restoring it than you'll get from selling it.
If it was originally 7x57, expect some odd looking brass when you fire it, because a .280 reamer won't fully clean up a 7x57 chamber at the neck.
Everything depends on the bore condition. If the bore is in the same condition as the outside of the rifle, then it's basically worth what you can get for the action.
Unless you do the work yourself, you'll spend more restoring it than you'll get from selling it.
Like people have said make sire to identify the real chambering, by having some one casting the chamber. Or you can actually do it your self, I never done it but it looks fairly straightforward. Cerosafe I think it’s call, the casting material, someone will correct me and give more info on the process and the material needed.
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Cerrosafe - I got perhaps a pound of it back in the day from Brownell's in USA - probably various Canadian sources for it now. It is a metal alloy - a solid at room temp, but goes liquid below boiling water temp. Pour the melted liquid into the desired thing to measure. As per the instructions with it - it will shrink slightly as it cools (solidifies) - lets you get the casting out of the mould - then it swells - so duplicates the mould dimensions after about an hour - that is when to measure it. By next day or next week that casting is probably bigger than the mould was. Can use the stuff over and over again - just recover it and re-melt it. I use like a "double boiler" - so one pot of water on the stove - then another can with the Cerrosafe metal in a can, inside that water filled pot - the idea is that the stove heats the water - then the warm water melts the Cerrosafe, but the water and Cerrosafe never touch - so you might need something for a spacer under bottom of Cerrosafe can - do NOT want that to be solidly on the bottom of the water pan - need some amount of water under there. I think I have a bent up piece of wire clothes hanger for that purpose. The Cerrosafe can used to be a "salmon" or "tuna" can. The cerrosafe is melted to a liquid by the time that the water boils.
I’m wondering if this isn’t actually chambered in 280 Ross. During the era that this rifle would have been made Kynoch was a mayor ammunition manufacturer. Kynoch produced 280 Ross but called it the 280 Kynoch Rimless in Britain. Hence the KR 280? Just a guess, as others stated best to have the chamber cast.
