If any of you actually took the time to blow one them up, you'd never question their inherent strength, nor the strength of most any other action thereafter. One such custom rifle is generally all it takes to cure the dreamer of his fantasy. Generally, they wind up with what looks like a hacked military rifle sitting in a bulbous replacement wood stock. But many folks out there still maintain a notion of building a 'custom' rifle using a military action, mainly because they can buy them cheap. I would choose a different action all together.including the Mauser 98, if I were going to build a rifle. I've knew a one of them that failed to deliver complete satisfaction to the owners.including me. How many 93's I have seen rebarreled to 257 Roberts and then loaded to the ragged edge, is beyond my recounting, but let's say it's more than a few. The Mauser 93 and 95 actions possess more than enough strength to handle the 308.7.62 NATO cartridge. I'll give you six months to find one example.report back here and let us know what you found. I would also like for you to show me a reference in print, that details a Mauser rifle bolt being propelled rearward into the shooters head. Yes, it is wrecked beyond further use at this point, but it doesn't come apart. What does happen is the bolt lugs will set back, locking the action up, requiring a hammer to pound it open. How so? First, when an action very rarely becomes a grenade, launching parts into the stratosphere. While Mauser's 98 design incorporated superior gas deflection and venting, with the addition of a third safety lug, it is not inherently stronger than the previous designs. Hansen You have written for several gunrags.well bully for you! Then we in the audience are to assume that makes you authority? How many various examples of Paul Mauser's have you rebarreled and spent any time with? What empirical evidence do you have to support your claims.or are you simply repeating what you have read? I do not claim to be an expert.much less a 'gun writer', but I have spent many years with hands on experience dealing with practically any sporting arm made.
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Now, this is still a somewhat free country, you are free to disreguard my advice if you would like. The 7X57 mm is a fine cartridge and is safe in those actions. I say again, taking the chance is not worth your life or your eye sight. Every time a 308 is fired in a 93 or 95 the action or bolt is one round closer to failure because of work hardening. The bolt will most likely "setback" causing excessive headspace and causing a problem opening the bold after fireing before the action or the bolt fails but you can not count on it. If I remember right even Mauser said it was not safe back in the 60s or 50s. I am not the only gun writer who has said so. The action just was not designed for that type of presure. 308 is not safe to shoot even with factory loads. I have written for, The American Rifleman, Guns & Ammo, Rifle, Guns, The Shooting Industry, Gun World, Gun Digest and others.
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