Spanish M1916 Mauser - Bed it and cork?

[mookiie]

I am going to try and use JB weld to bed the receiver action of my Spanish Mauser. My question is because of the two barrel bands and relatively short barrel, should i bed the receiver and a few inches under the barrel and than try to free float the barrel and cork around the barrel bands or just bed the whole barrel? What method would be most effective, is there a third option I am not considering? Has anyone tried this with their Spanish Mauser?
thanks,
Sean

 

[Jim K]

I fail to understand how JB weld got to be the universal cureall for every gun problem.*

If you want to bed that rifle, get a bedding kit and follow the directions. You will need to rout the stock out to do the job right. And don't forget the release agent.

I have to wonder what is wrong with the bedding now. Most of those Mausers are pretty well bedded in the military stocks and unless the existing wood is damaged I doubt anything would be much improved by bedding.

In other words, is your third option to leave well enough alone?

*On another site, a poster had a .30-'06 rifle with a split barrel; he was planning to fill the gap with JB Weld and keep on shooting!!!!

Jim

 

[Shadow 7D]

And, um, you will remove collector value
and like Jim said, what's wrong with it now?

what are you trying to do?

 

[Arp32]

"Collector value" kinda makes it sound like a much more valuable rifle than it is...

No offense to the OP whatsoever, I've just got an FR-8 Mauser I can't seem to sell at $400 and I see the older model offered much lowered than that.

 

[mookiie]

yeah it is a 200 dollar action at best. the spanish mauser really do not have a big historical value or collector appeal. do not get me wrong it is a nice mauser, but it was already pillar bedded so it most likely already lost collector value if their ever was any. i have never used jb weld for bedding but have heard others recommend it. i have a glass bed kit for a separate project. want to see if jb weld would work and how good. so another question is has anyone else use jb weld to bed an action, and if so did it help?

 

[Jim K]

Most of those Spanish Mausers were imported years ago by Interarms. When the last shipload came in, they sent a stake body truck to the dock and it came back full up - with the computer printout packing list. Interarms is no more, but I suspect there are some distributors, Sarco, maybe, or Century, that still have acres of 7mm Mausers around someplace. So, no, they really aren't rare collector's items.

Jim