Difficult to Sporterize a M93 Mauser?
I have a M93 Turkish Mauser, which is legally, an antique.
I am interested in putting a scope on this old rifle. I would also need a safety that would work with the scope, plus get the barrel shortened and a Monte Carlo style stock installed, nothing fancy.
How big of a deal would this be? Are there any gunsmiths on this forum who could do it?
I am interested in putting a scope on this old rifle. I would also need a safety that would work with the scope, plus get the barrel shortened and a Monte Carlo style stock installed, nothing fancy.
How big of a deal would this be? Are there any gunsmiths on this forum who could do it?
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D&T costs around $5-10 per hole
Scope safety costs in the $15-30 range(complete trigger w/safety $45 on sale)
Bolt bending or cut/weld $40-75
Cut and recrown the barrel $40+
A cheap synthetic stock $50+ or a Boyds inletted stock $60-70(you finish)
This will leave the external finish what it is now
If it's any distance from you to the gunsmith, you'll have shipping both ways, cost of the scope bases, a recoil pad if you want that(maybe extra cost on the stock).
I have several Mausers that I've had "sporterized" in various ways but considering the costs of some very serviceable commercial rifles, I would only go to the extra effort/expense in very specific circumstances.0 -
I think Mobuck's prices are reasonable. I wouldn't invest the effort in a 93 or 95 myself.
Good time to ask gunsmith's about doing the work now during the sower part of the season.0 -
"Big deal", no. . .these things are done all the time, and any competent gunsmith should be able to do all of them.
The question, as always, is whether or not its worth the effort/bother, and only you can decide that.
It probably is worth mentioning that the money spent on these sorts of things generally isn't recoverable in resale. You'll spend $200 on the sporterization, and if you're lucky, it will increase the value of the gun by a few bucks (at most). . .in some cases it will DECREASE the value of the gun!
Just as food for thought, its usually pretty cheap/easy to drop a long eye relief/pistol type scope on these guns by swapping out the rear sight base. The scope itself won't be as good as a conventional one, but its good enough for close distances, and it avoids most of the gunsmith-related issues (eg drill and tap, bending bolts, altering safeties, etc). You could do that, and drop the gun into a new stock and you'd get most of the benefit of the full conversion, without irreversibly altering the gun or losing much value.
http://www.scopemounts.com/index.html?main.html#0 -
Yeah, beantown, I bought a real nice scout mount for my M39 Mosin Nagant and it just didn't do me right. It worked well and it was accurate but two months later I sold it on the internet.
I just like the idea of going hunting with one of these old military guns and I have to use a scope, vision isn't what it used to be.
I want one of those safeties that flips side to side to clear the scope.0 -
I have two of the small ring Mausers with pistol scopes on the rear sight base. One is still in 7x57 and it has been a tractor rifle for years. The other is one of the rebored 1916 Models in 7.62 Nato. That one is in like new condition and shoots the plastic practice ammo like a laser beam. 0
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