bigrich wrote:hey BR, noticed you said you have a m38. is it a husky or a reworked gustav ? what sort of groups do you get at 100 and what load do you use in it ?
bigrich wrote:thanks BR, i got a m96 1909 gustav, looking at having a crack at millitary shoot this weekend. fitted a taller front sight and filed it down to give 2.7" high at 100.also narrowed it slightly to help my eyes. 49 yrs old and wearing glasses doesn't mix to well with old mauser millitary sights. not sure if modifying the sights is allowed, but at least i can shoot it well. used my favorite hunting ammo , norma 156gr vulkans and shot a 2." group at 100.with not much practice and my eyes, impressed the hell out of me. s&b fmj not so good.3.5" at 100. might get some sako hp target just for kicks to see what it will do.be a couple of weeks till i buy powder ,projectiles etc. will be loading for my mod 70 winchester hunter as well so i'll get lots of use out of 6.5 swede. you got me thinking about a m38 now. had one 30 years ago and could just about outshoot all my mates scoped rifles. your a bad influence BR, bad.
Title_II wrote:If you carry a fun in Australia you will go to jail.
Heckler303 wrote:That looks like it needs a good clean. Warm soapy water on that stock perhaps?
Gun-nut wrote:Mate that's bloody awesome! $1500 is great for an '03, even if its a rebuild. The originals are going for crazy amounts of money, and that's when you can find them. Keep us updated as I'd be very intrigued to see how it shoots. Congrats on the purchase.
Title_II wrote:If you carry a fun in Australia you will go to jail.
Heckler303 wrote:Is the bolt on that rifle smooth? I hear that they have some difficulty opening and during camming.
No1Mk3 wrote:G'day bladeracer,
most of DWM's records were lost in WW2, including the early 1900's. All that is known is that 100,000 rifles were produced and delivered to Portugal between 1904 and 1907, + 5000 in 7x57 for Brazil. The conversions, which were actually done in Portugal, were done ad hoc between 1940 and 1947 so checking serials will not help. A little trivia, they WERE going to convert them to 303 British! But they purchased a large lot of Mausers in 1937 and decided to stick with the Mauser cartridge. Cheers.
No1Mk3 wrote:G'day bladeracer,
best guess is DWM and Oberdorf's practice of numbering in 10000 lots, at a production estimate of roughly 2000 rifles per month. I'll let you work out the math. My 1904 is numbered 9738, and the 904/39 is B1207, so roughly 5th month of production, say mid 1904, and maybe 12th month of production for the /m39. that is about all I have been able to discover. There is a book on these models that could narrow that down but it is written in Portuguese. The Brazilian rifles are actually 1904 Vergueiro but chambered for the South Americans. From memory they were all Police rifles, and a large number were imported to the US. Cheers.
No1Mk3 wrote:G'day bladeracer,
Espingarda Mauser, M/904, M/904-39, M/937 E M/943, by Jaime Ferreira Regalada. If you can find it there is an essay on Portuguese firearms history by Major General Renato Pinto that had some info on these rifles also. I have a copy somewhere but again it is in Portuguese and I never got round to having it translated. Cheers.
Wm.Traynor wrote:bladeracer,
You must have good eyes to see that tiny green thing at 57 yards
bladeracer wrote:I've had a neighbour in this week for some tips on reloading for his .30-06 ADL (one of the better poly stocks I've yet seen).
He has some Remington once-fired brass (150gn, 155gn and 180gn bullets) and grabbed some 180gn Interlock SP's and CCI No.200 LR primers.
He likes what the factory ammo does already, so I tried to work up something equivalent to that for him to start out with.
I decided AR2209 offers good case fill, good velocity and good pressure behind the 180gn bullet. Extrapolating from ADI data gave me a 56.0gn charge to give him the 2700fps specified by Remington for their 180gn CoreLokt load. He hasn't got any factory ammo that we can confirm their claimed velocity with. He'll be over tomorrow to test shoot them to see if they're good, then he can load the rest of his brass up and get back out in the bush.