Hello first of all, I apologize if this is the wrong board to be posting this.
I recently came across an m98 12g barreled action that I believe is a GEHA for $175. I have had the pictured kar98 stock for close to 2 decades, it was bought for me by my mother at an army surplus store when I was very young and it has just been floating around ever since. I have recently been wanting to throw something into it just for the novelty of making it into a functioning firearm after such a long time. Yes I HAVE seen the 6.5 actions, and I'm not particularily interested in them.
I am prepared to do some fitting work, removing some wood to get the barrel to actually fit in the stock. I'm more here to ask for advice on the best way to achieve this, I was planning on dremelling everything down until the barrel seats nicely enough. But I would like to know if there are any good products or tricks to get everything to fit really nicely once I do the dremel work (some sort of filler) since the chances of me actually making a perfect fit with a dremel are slim to none. Im also hoping to keep the handguard/upper piece of wood, I'm not huge on the sporterized look, I'm aware the barrel bands will become useless, so any sort of advice in that aspect would be greatly appreciated.
Im aware what Im asking for could seem a bit silly in some ways, that's why I'm asking you all for your advice.
on a sidenote if anyone knows of any cheap 8mm mauser actions, barreled or otherwise for the ~$200 area please inform me.
