| VonGruff |
| (.400 member) |
| 02/10/10 04:24 AM |
Re: 404 Rodda
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A little-known fact: On their commercial 9.3x62 and 10.75x68 rifles Mauser Oberndorf used a magazine box about 2.5mm deeper than the standard military actions. the trigger and the screws are longer too. When restocking one of these, you cannot use a "dropin" stock intended for a standard military 98 action or the smaller bore commercial rifles. Instead, you have to use a stock machined for the Magnum action! I learned the hard way!
Thanks for that little snippet Kud, had not heard that interesting fact before. Perhaps explains why I easily get 3+1 404 in my standard Type A shown above. So long since it had the standard trigger I don't recall how low it sat in the trigger bow. The Timney sits up higher as you can see but comes to my finger easily and I would not lengthen.
Then I have unknowingly made my 98FN to be like the origional as quoted by Kuduae. Without spacing it down I could only get two plus one and it needed just that small amount to get the three plus one. If you compare the pic of my b/a with unaltered trigger it shows itself to be the same as Eagle type A. I had to get longer action screws made to suit. While I could use the Timney trigger as was, I was concious of being on the 'tip' rather than comfortably in the centre of it, although I used a custom fingerpiece when it was altered.
Von Gruff.