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Mike,those are the 280's I know off as well.
Thanks for providing the rim diameters.
The pleasures of vintage rifles indeed. I had a lovely Schmidt and Habermann Mauser in 9.3x64, a dream rifle, at least for me. Sadly the bolt face which should have been 12.65mm diameter was in fact 12.0mm (0.472”, standard for a 9.3 x 57, 9.3 x 62, .308win etc etc). No wonder my RWS ammo would not chamber. My suspicion at the time was that someone replaced the original bolt with a generic Mauser one. Could that have happened on this rifle as well? In which case, unlucky me.

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20 years ago I bought an original mauser in 10,75x68, was a pre WW 1 made. got the rifle from the postman and try to load an old DWM cartridge and it did not work. It was obviously a bolt for standard 8 mm brass and comrades. while looking original on the first view it don#t had the right number of this rifle.
no doubt the cleaning woman must have mixed up the bolts from another similar mauser rifle when clear up the warehouse.
the original bolt was found then and we change it for good.

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