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A few years ago I put my hands on a badly salvaged Original Mauser Intermediate action made at Oberndorf at the end of the thirties with all the bells and wishes, originally delivered as a 7x57 with double square bridges, solid left wall, bolt guide, etc...
Alas it has suffered from the ineptitude of previous “would be gunsmiths” and lost a portion of its rear flat top for a badly screwed long Warne base supporting a red dot sight, the bolt guide having been crudely grinded to ease an ill fitted modern side swing safety shroud and the bolt lever was botched and twisted.
At the same time my friend customer Jean Calians gave us an Original Mauser 7x64 to restore with new stocking an scope claw mounting, asking that we take off the complete side safety system he didn't liked (he said that it detracts the clean lines of the action rear end).
It took us much work to return that action at its past glory and while working on we machined it to fit the original Mauser side safety with its stalking latch. Indeed we had to modify some parts, but that rarely seen stalking safety that also blocks the bolt in place is now perfectly fitted.
We like the idea to retain the traditional wing safety to use on the unscoped rifle while the stalking side safety could be used with the scope fitted.
A new bit of steel taken from a broken military action was TIG soldered before being machined to form the bolt guide and we have fitted our own style bolt handle.
To repair the badly butchered rear square bridge we have opted to mill it for a specially machined 30mm H&H style scope mount that now supports a Zeiss 2,5-10x50 Victory HT scope.
Having full drawers of Mauser original parts, the rebuilding of the double set trigger was not a great trouble and we took the opportunity of lengthening the magazine to put a new straddle floorplate.
The action was barreled in .240 Wby. Mag. with a 25" Lothar Walther match grade barrel and a well seasoned blank of French walnut has been used to cut the classic stock.
The rifle ends in some kind of tribute to the great H&H stalking rifles of the (alas gone) best years...but in D&D guise!
We will appreciate your comments.

Regards to all.

DORLEAC
www.dorleac-dorleac.com