need help for built from husqvarna action

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bud69

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Hi all
I just look at my local classified and see a husqvarna fn98 in 8x57 for 250$$ whit cracked stock
i allways whanted a mauser 98 action in 308 whit 20inch barrel in topperware stock for a lightweight rifle
Does this action whill fit in b&c stock for mauser 98 ?
Who make a barrel in .308 for this action ?
What did you think good idea or bad any sugestion will be appreciate !

Thanks

Bud
 
The action will fit aftermarket stocks, the trigger guard may or may not fit depending on whether it's an early military trigger guard or later commercial type. It's always a fair bit of screwing around putting one of these together....a Zastava M70 in .308 runs about $700.
 
#1 Fn98 comercial so it fit nice ?
#2 Barrel who make a easy fit whit this setup and which contour is the best for 50% hunt and 50% pratice/ load developement
#3 The zastava idea seem nice BUT i dont know the weight of this rifle or if an aftermarker mauser 98 action stock will fit
like the b&c ?
 
bud69 said:
#1 Fn98 comercial so it fit nice ?
#2 Barrel who make a easy fit whit this setup and which contour is the best for 50% hunt and 50% pratice/ load developement
#3 The zastava idea seem nice BUT i dont know the weight of this rifle or if an aftermarker mauser 98 action stock will fit
like the b&c ?
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Action yes, same foot print military or commercial. It's the trigger guard that might be too long for an aftermarket stock. Military with the 2nd set of locking screws is a bit longer, FN used both.
Most aftermarket stocks are not inlet for a side (trigger) safety, which is what the Zastava has. It would need to be fit there, but any gunsmith could do that. Other option is the Buehler style wing safety, or Winchester M70 style if you don't want the trigger type, or Timney with side safety, many options. A decent M70 style safety/shroud runs $250US. Side safety or M70 let you mount scopes lower then the Beuhler style, all personal preference but I like ones that block the firing pin myself.
A #2 or #3 contour would work well with a 20" barrel, again there are many options...check with Jury, Mystic Precision, etc. No problem getting one pre-threaded and short chambered for a '98. They start at $100US from Numrich/Brownells and go up as high as you want to spend.
Zastava specs can be found here
http://www.zastava-arms.rs/en/civilianproduct/sporting-rifle-m70-standard
 
They do make a couple with synthetic stocks, a stainless version and a blued.
SS http://www.zastava-arms.rs/en/civilianproduct/sporting-rifle-m70pss
Blued http://www.zastava-arms.rs/en/civilianproduct/sporting-rifle-m70ps

Building gets expensive very fast, I went that route with a FN98 in 30-06 that I wanted to turn a 9.3x62 out of. The FN receiver wasn't a good candidate as the lugs had set back, only discovered this after the barrel had been removed. I had a spare K98 receiver and used that instead but had to open the receiver up a bit for the FN mag box which is longer then a K98, along with all the FN bits I was able to make a rifle out of it. It shoots well but still needs to be refinished, probably not until January. A high polish blue job runs about $200, blasted and blued around $150. I'll do most of the polishing of the action myself, smoothing etc.
This is how it sits now. Well over the price of a Zastava and still needs to be blued lol.

FN receiver with lug setback.

 
The setback on Mauser actions is very often a cause of lug lapping. Since the steel used for these actions is soft low carbon steel, the receiver case hardening isn't very deep, rarely above 0.008" often much less.
The newly produced actions and late commercial FN and HVA are much subject to this.
 
Baribal said:
The setback on Mauser actions is very often a cause of lug lapping. Since the steel used for these actions is soft low carbon steel, the receiver case hardening isn't very deep, rarely above 0.008" often much less.
The newly produced actions and late commercial FN and HVA are much subject to this.
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The smith that did the work for me had never seen an FN set back like that. It was a decent late model HVA in 30'06 in pretty nice shape, didn't look to have been fired much at all, bore is still excellent.
He thought it either didn't get properly heat treated, or the previous owner ran a box or 2 of really hot loads through it....
 
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