Roamin_Wade
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I’ve got a k98 that has a 1940 mfg. date. It truly is an extremely substantial rifle but I’m not a fan of the bolt catch that keeps you from closing the bolt on an empty rifle. I’ve handled a few Winchester Model 70’s and I don’t recall that lip protuberance coming up from the control round feeding floor plate. Do folks that take an old Mauser action and custom build a rifle from It have that altered so it don’t require a finger into the action to defeat that designed mechanism? Does anyone know if German soldiers liked that mechanism or not? It seems like it would take about two minutes on a bench grinder to take that feature out of the rifle.