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I had one in 7.62, beautiful condition, but the straight walled case never fed well from the unaltered magazine resulting in a lot of mis- feeding. So I sold it. I’ve always been keen to buy one of those earlier Israeli re-works of a WW1 era action rifles in 8mm. Would be an interesting piece as to what it’s seen etc.

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I read an account from an Israeli soldier from the early years that said his 7.62 Mauser was at best a single loader. One from the top of the magazine and that was it. Total junk.

As you say, the guns {at least some of them} appear to have been simply rebarreled w/o regard for magazine alterations.

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I have a 1945 DOT Israeli Mauser (not really assembled in 1945 but probably in the early 50s so I've been led to believe. The "5" is mis-stamped compared to the rest of the figures). It has a spacer in the front of the magazine but I'm not convinced that it does anything because the round that is fed into the chamber doesn't go near the spacer.

I have to cycle the bolt quickly otherwise the round pops out of the magazine ahead of the extractor and it won't snap over the chambered round, but it could be modified to do so.

I have a friend who converted an 8mm Mauser to 308 by screwing on an Israeli barrel he got at a gunshow. There's no spacer in the magazine and he hasn't modified the feed rails in any way, and it feeds fine.

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