Marathon Products Rifle
Does anyone have an opinion good or bad about a Marathon Products rifle? I have never seen one until now and it is marked Santa Barbara Spain on the barrel and then 7 RM and then on the action is MAG-and serial number. Would this be a 7mm Rem mag? The rifle kind of looks like the old Interarms Mark X. Any info is always appreciated. Terrill
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Don't know, if it was the same outfit? Years back,( late 80's/mid 90's?). There were a whole bunch of Mosin-Nagants imported from Finland. By a company with the same name.
That said, if you're not sure about the caliber and chambering. Safest thing would be to take it into a competent gunsmith. For barrel sluging, chamber cast, inspection and test firing.
You don't want to screw, with some bubas basement special. That he put together, some dark and stormy night. That he was drunk, out of his mind.0 -
with a serial # like that it 'sounds like' a santa barbara mauser. pix's would tell the tail. 0 -
I am a dinosaur when it comes to computers and I do not have any way to post pictures but I can see how that would be a big help. Info is appreciated. Terrill 0 -
If memory serves me right, Santa Barbara actions were produced by the Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, S.A. in La Coruna, Spain. They were a commercial 98 Mauser design with a hinged floor plate and the actions were available in different sizes to accommodate most everything up to the magnums. You used to see them advertised in magazines and Shogun News all the time. Parker Hale and P.O. Ackley used them to make rifles so that tells you something about their quality. I have one of these actions and it looks like the receiver is made from cast steel and then finish machined. Ruger has been making rifles with cast steel receivers for sometime so I see nothing wrong with that. I wish they had made them in a mini-mauser size for the smaller rounds, back then I couldn't afford to buy Sako actions. 0 -
Pull the bolt. See how a normal belted mag case fits the extractor vs. anything on a 7mm head size. 0
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