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Difficult to Sporterize a M93 Mauser?
allen griggs
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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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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.
Good time to ask gunsmith's about doing the work now during the sower part of the season.
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#
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.