Hello,

I always admiring Mauser take down rifles. Most often the barrel is simply threaded into the receiver and after operating a latch you can unthread the barrel. A lot of of those seem to utilize the standard Mauser barrel threading. I talked to a gunmaker years ago and he claimed that having the original threads has the disadvantage that the first shot after reassemble of the rifle will be off a few inches due to the fact that the barrel has to seat itself into the threading. He recommended a tapered fitting between the barrel and the receiver to eliminate that problem. I also seen pictures of Hartmann and Weiss take down rifles and they have a threaded connection. It seems though that the thread they using is different, more square than triangular.

Does anybody has experience with this and can give me more information?

Thank you very much