That one would make a good match rifle, Northman - stiffer action without the mag hole.

Ernie Stapelton, the gun smith, now passed away, whom many of us here in BC used as an accuracy smith, did a good job stiffening up 98 Mauser actions for match shooting. He did this by welding in a plate to fill the mag well, converting them to single shot, with a grooved floor for feeding, still controlled feed - or push fed - didn't matter with standard cases. These actions for prone as well as 3-po competition.

They worked well indeed - one he did for me, a VZ chambered in .22 BR was an example of one, giving me 3/8", 10 shot bench groups at 100 meters.