It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t cost much, is repairable and shoots straight and true! Use it as-is or use it as a base to build yourself a nice sporter. We put the broken stock Mausers in the small ring sporter stocks, as-is, and the result is our “West Virginia Special”. We also had a small quantity of small ring Mauser sporting stocks, used, some scratches, dings, etc., and cracked at the tang or heel. So, we have a number of 1916 Mauser rifles, perfect working condition, in 7×57 Mauser (7mm Mauser), that had dirt and rust, some pitting but otherwise work well and had stocks that were hopelessly broken.
But hey, at $99, even a rifled action that isn’t rusted through is a good buy these days. Of course, they are in scratch and dent sporter stocks too, so there’s that. Well, all that is history by and large these days.īut, I did see this “deal” over at Old West Scrounger who has some scratch and dent M1916 Spanish Mausers they contend are shootable. Heck, I bought my first CMP M1903 Springfield for $350. 303s for $99, and a good selection of Mausers and Arisakas for $150.
When I was first collecting in the early 1990s, you could pick up a Mosin-Nagant for $49, any number of Enfield. In the milsurp C&R game, bolt-action military rifles have been getting more scarce over the years.
