Turkish Mauser questions
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Check out http://www.turkmauser.com/ or http://www.surplusrifle.com/ they have lots of Turk information.
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If it is in original military configuration, it is best to leave it that way. Once you have made all of the "sporterizing" mods to make it a decent hunting or target rifle, you will find that you could have bought a new, better gun for about the same amount. If you want to sporterize, there are already modified barrelled actions out there. Here's a great Turk Mauser sporterizing site: http://www272.pair.com/stevewag/turk/turkmain.html
Once you have determined what you have (using the links provided by Steppenwolf), a rule of thumb is that you will only want to rechamber to step it up if it is a M98 (three locking lugs), large ring action. Many are large ring, small barrel shank (a Turkish oddity) - that is ok. Of course it's only worth your while to rechamber an excellent barrel. 8mm/06 can be accomodated with no, or nearly no mag, ramp and rail mods. A great round that outperforms the 30/06. BTW, there's nothing wrong with the 8x57 - it's essentially the equal of the 30/06 (from the deer's perspective anyway).
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Once you have determined what you have (using the links provided by Steppenwolf), a rule of thumb is that you will only want to rechamber to step it up if it is a M98 (three locking lugs), large ring action. Many are large ring, small barrel shank (a Turkish oddity) - that is ok. Of course it's only worth your while to rechamber an excellent barrel. 8mm/06 can be accomodated with no, or nearly no mag, ramp and rail mods. A great round that outperforms the 30/06. BTW, there's nothing wrong with the 8x57 - it's essentially the equal of the 30/06 (from the deer's perspective anyway).
Been there.
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Thanks Andy, bubba has already been at my turk, its already drilled and tapped for bases, bolt is bent, has a clip, and the sights are taken off, so most of the work is done, I would only need to get 'er reamed to 8mm-06 if the action will take it. Thanks for the great site too.
