gotboostvr
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Firstly let me say, I wouldn't do this to a nice original Milsurp nowadays. If it was in restorable condition, I would to the best of my ability, restore it.
This thing's been reworked considerably already. So any further tinkering on my part is guilt free.
So today I finally made it over to my FFL's place to pick up some recent deals I scored.
Most interestingly I think was this Gew 98 1914 Amberg that had been pretty heavily modified.
Rebarreled to "something 30 cal" with Lyman peep sights with a drift adjustable front ramp, and a Fajen stock.
I was in the market for a general purpose kinda kick-around, large/medium game, off hand shooting rifle.
Being a reloader (with plenty of 30cal bullets) I wasn't scared off by the mystery caliber. I do know it will feed/extract a 308Win dummy just from playing around with it.
I'll need to figure out where I can rent some go/no-go gauges. I'm fairly certain that as long as the chamber and headspace are correct this could be safe with 60K SAMMI ammunition correct? I'm mostly planning on running 150's around 28-2900 fps, and 180's occasionally around 2600fps. If it's out of a 7.62x51, 30-06, or some other similarly sized wildcat is yet to be seen.
Once I verify the chambering I think I'll have a very handy iron sighted game rifle. I was considering a Savage Hog Hunter 308 and adding a rear peep sight, but could never "pull the trigger". I saw this on gunbroker and threw out a low-ball bid. The mystery chamber probably scared most bidders away, but worst case scenario I have an excuse to rebarrel to 35 Whelen.
I've got me a certified project rifle!
This thing's been reworked considerably already. So any further tinkering on my part is guilt free.
So today I finally made it over to my FFL's place to pick up some recent deals I scored.
Most interestingly I think was this Gew 98 1914 Amberg that had been pretty heavily modified.
Rebarreled to "something 30 cal" with Lyman peep sights with a drift adjustable front ramp, and a Fajen stock.
I was in the market for a general purpose kinda kick-around, large/medium game, off hand shooting rifle.
Being a reloader (with plenty of 30cal bullets) I wasn't scared off by the mystery caliber. I do know it will feed/extract a 308Win dummy just from playing around with it.
I'll need to figure out where I can rent some go/no-go gauges. I'm fairly certain that as long as the chamber and headspace are correct this could be safe with 60K SAMMI ammunition correct? I'm mostly planning on running 150's around 28-2900 fps, and 180's occasionally around 2600fps. If it's out of a 7.62x51, 30-06, or some other similarly sized wildcat is yet to be seen.
Once I verify the chambering I think I'll have a very handy iron sighted game rifle. I was considering a Savage Hog Hunter 308 and adding a rear peep sight, but could never "pull the trigger". I saw this on gunbroker and threw out a low-ball bid. The mystery chamber probably scared most bidders away, but worst case scenario I have an excuse to rebarrel to 35 Whelen.
I've got me a certified project rifle!