Turkish Mauser stock question

[ldlfh7]

I recently got a turkish mauser which has had its stock sanded and re-stained.
On the back side of the stock where the action mounts onto the stock has been sanded too much and there is no flush fit.
I figured I could buy a replacement stock from boyd's but I am not sure which one to buy because Turk mausers are large ring mausers whose barrel shank has the diameter of small ring mauser.

Will a standard large ring mauser stock fit?
This is a standard model 1938 Turk mauser.

 

[lathedog]

Always a good idea to call and ask, but yes a large ring Turk is a standard length 98 action.

The one problem you may encounter with a Turk variant is the thin ring extending forward on the receiver front face for securing the back end of the handguard. That is common on a few variants so maybe ask Boyds and I bet they have an inlet pattern to account for that. Otherwise you would have to inlet forward a bit to allow for the extra metal to fit.

p.s. I have a turk 38 that was large shank re: barrel threads. It looks like they got ahold of something else and built it out as an M38 pattern rifle. So you never know until you get one apart.

 

[LAGS]

If you want to use the original stock, it can be repaired and look very good.
You just sand a flat across the back of the Tang Area, about 1/4 inch deep, level with the line of your bore all the way up to the Bolt stop /Ejector spring cover rear. ( ie, 1/4 to 3/8 deep at the receiver, to Zero at the radius of the top of the wrist ) and glue a peice of similar hardwood to the top of your stock.
Then it can be reshaped to look like the original dimensions, and be inletted to fit the tang.
I have had to do that many a time when there were visable cracks behind the tang.
I even did the 1/4 inch thick peice with a Dis similar wood, and it made it looke like a inlaid detail on top of the back of the stock.
I used a peice of 1/4 ' Ebony on one and it looked really good.
If you are willing to buy a whole new stock, then I take it you are not trying to Restore it to perfect Original NIB comdition.
Battle Rifles also had repairs to the stocks when they re-armored them, so a repair is not something unheard of.

 

[NCsmitty]

The stock screw spacing will be the key to determining what Turk Mauser you have. A 7.835" spacing is a standard large ring Mauser dimension. All K.Kale stamped Turks are standard length Mausers. Having a small ring threaded barrel does not change the external standard large ring dimensions of the action, but the Turks used a shroud extension on the action to secure the handguard on M98 style actions.

Intermediate action length Mauser's measure 7.620".

For more information on Turks, check out www.turkmauser.com.


NCsmitty