uncle barky's gun blog: July 2014

Update: I sold the rifle due to it being just too much of a pain and the expensive of buying all the little parts to put it back into a wood stock. Purchased a Mosin.

Back in the day, I purchased an old Brno 98/22 Mauser at Dunham's sports. I paid less than $100 for it and was delighted. Before long though, my Nephew and I began wanting to convert it into a black opps sniper gun. We ended up buying an ATI stock that allows for a scope without drilling and tapping the receiver. Besides that, it just looked evil. Big and black with the cheek rest and huge 60mm objective scope to top it off.

Well, fast forward a decade and I still have the Mauser, but I'm not so into the huge scope, 1000 yard head shot thing. Actually, I've be come a fan of just plain old sights. Problem is, the original stock and hardware was thrown out long ago. So, in order to facilitate the transition, I began to look for stocks.

I ground the bolt knob flat to clear the stock

I bought a "K98" stock off of Armslist only to find that my action is a "long" action and the stock I bought is for a "Short" action. The only difference is that a "Short" action measures just slightly shorter between the 2 receiver screws. Rather than go buy yet another stock, I decided to just alter stock I have. I just used a dremel tool to rout the wood and will fill in the gaps with a good epoxy.

I will be re-sectioning the trigger guard to put it to the right length. Yes, I could buy the right length guard, but what's the fun in that?

The gun originally had a straight bolt handle, but we had bent it to clear the scope. Rather than heat it back up, I have chosen to clean it up and shave it to clear the stock.

For sights, I plan to use a mojo rear peep sight in conjunction with the stock front blade and add a hood to that. I'm not a big fan of the original Mauser sight picture. I absolutely love the peep sights on GI rifles, so the mojo makes sense to me.