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MileHighShooter
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Wow.... Its big
MileHighShooter
Posts: 4,997 Senior Member
My TRUE magnum length double square bridge mauser 98 clone came in today!
I knew the outside dimensions before purchase.....but seeing is believing!! Holy cow its big, and heavy!! Magazine will take 3.85" cartridge, bolt is big enough for some seriously large cartridges, the bolt body is about 3/4" diameter.
May have to rethink my choice to go 375 here, it would feel like putting a 223 in a standard M98!! With the bolt all the way open its probably a foot long, at least haha
I knew the outside dimensions before purchase.....but seeing is believing!! Holy cow its big, and heavy!! Magazine will take 3.85" cartridge, bolt is big enough for some seriously large cartridges, the bolt body is about 3/4" diameter.
May have to rethink my choice to go 375 here, it would feel like putting a 223 in a standard M98!! With the bolt all the way open its probably a foot long, at least haha
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Mausers are on the heavy side in general unless you remove some metal. Even a short Yugo weighs probably a third more than a Remington 700 action. You add length to that and you have a real clunker. You want a rifle to carry around hunting get you a Remington or Savage action with a thin barrel.
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This IS a rifle to carry around. Difference is WHAT you're carrying around. I don't even know if you could get something like a 416 Rigby or 505 Gibbs in a 700. This will be spacious
I have taken Mauser based rifles to several continents. They might be on the heavy side but I dont worry about them failing me and like the lines over that of a tube steel receiver.
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Hey, I'm not knocking them in the least for the reasons you stated. I have several. I love em. They're solid and built like a Brick Poo House. What I'm saying is if you want a light weight rifle like a mountain rifle that you can carry all day, get you a Remington or Savage, maybe a Remington Model 7 if you can get by with a shorter action. But if you want one built to last and ultra reliable in the face of dangerous game, there's few that can match a Mauser.
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If you can get yourself a good small ring 98 (not 91/93/95/96 but a true SR 98) like a G33/40 you can make a pretty light rifle. IIRC the action alone is around 11 oz, maybe 12. Yugo is like just shy of a pound.
You know what I'm talking about Dan, a mountain rifle. When I was planning on going elk hunting with you a few years back you all told me to bring something light weight. I don't think I'd want to carry a True Magnum length anything up around 8,000-10,000 foot of elevation. But the beautiful part of that is you probably don't need a beast like that at that altitude. I've not heard of any elephants or cape buffalos in the mountains lately.
Of course you might run into the occasional bear but that's what a .338 is for.
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Haha, no. I feel like this action alone weighs almost as much as my Colt Light Rifle '06
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Too small. The 20mm round, not the gun! :tooth:
It is
Its tempting. What is NOT tempting, is imagining what 90 ft-lbs of recoil will feel like
Here's another one for CPJ.....
Its not the length, its the girth.
A Rigby or Gibbs is fatter than the RUM series. Stepping into the 50s the cartridge rim may be too big to mill out.
Just looking at dimensions, I'm not sure it would fit. Rem offers the Lapua, so they've got a bolt that fits a .585 case head. But the 338L stops at 3.6". 416 Rigby is 3.72 and the 505 is 3.85 and a rim/base of 640.
06 375 404 505
I got it from the classified from at accurate reloading. It had been there for over a month and the guy kept dropping the price. Once he hit 450 shipped I snagged it
I'll weigh my '06 98. Its one of those Choate blind mag stocks. With the thin barrel. To my ultra precise left hand vs right hand, it feels lighter than my CLR, which is like 6.25 or 6.5 lbs
Yea, imagine its like that! Case H2o is 178 gr :yikes::drool::silly::tissue:
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.500 Gibbs will be a kitten.
Well. . .what are we trying to accomplish here? A .375 H&H will fly about like a 180 grain .30-06, feed like greased eel boogers with it's tapered case, and out-penetrate a lot of the large bores without pounding you. Think of it as the dangerous game stopping rifle that might get you on target quicker because there's not as much bracing and gritting of teeth as a preamble.
Then again, there's a few wildcats based on necking up the .375 H&H case to .458, if you like the abuse.
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No clue! But these actions don't pop up very often, and especially not with a 3pos safety already installed, and not for what I paid. Price was right, so that was the easy part. I have ammo/dies/barrel for the H&H, but seeing how big this action is, seems like there is a lot more potential.
It WILL be getting a synthetic stock though. Its a matter of some filing and bedding to fit this into the B&C made for the CZ550 Safari. And it'll get coated vs blued. Nasty critter gun that can also take nasty weather. It'll probably end up weighing 10lbs at least, sans scope, without being creative. A 10lbs 375 is just a bit porky