MarkPoley
(.224 member)
25/05/12 09:56 AM
Re: W. Collath Mauser

I'm going to try and repost my photos as Buchseman suggested.
I have a question about the proof on the side of the receiver.
You can see in the photo that the rifle was originally proofed
at 2.67 gG.B.P. but later reproofed at 2.45 gG.B.P. When I bought
this rifle it had a set of claw mounts on it that I removed.
The front mount is about 2" wide and made the rifle uncomfortable
to carry. The scope mounts were added sometime after the rifle
was built. Did it have to be reproofed since the mount was dovetailed
into the receiver ring? There are no numbers on the bottom flat of
the receiver behind the recoil lug of on the back of the magazine
box as I've read elswhere that an Oberndorf Mauser commercial
action should have. I'm dating the action by the type of firing pin
it has to 1905 or earlier. Military action probably wouldn't have
been avaliable that early and Mauser patents were still valid. So,
what do I have, I was told on another forum that it wasn't a
commercial Mauser action.















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