Kar 98 1910

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hockingsr

Discussion Starter · Jan 2, 2011

Hello,
I have a Kar 98 stamped 1910 on the receiver. It was my first deer rifle which my grandfather found leaning against a tree during deer season back in the 50's. The barrel had a bulge and split about an inch down from the muzzle, and as a shop project, I cut off two inches of the barrel and re sweated on the front sight, The bore is dark, but, lands and rifling is visible.

I used to load ammo for it and found at max load the bullets would tumble. I havn't touched the gun in years and now have recently thought to do something with it. A new barrel maybe?

I have a great supply of .308 W reloading components and thought to change to this as I only have dies
for the .323 ammo.

What do you all think?

Buffalo Bob

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MikeG

· #3 · Jan 4, 2011

There are surplus 8mm barrels aplenty, find a gunsmith that does a lot of rebarreling and there will probably be a pile of them in the corner. Pick out the best one and go!

I have a mauser that has been rebarreled to .250 Savage, cartridges go in the chamber like they've been greased with pig snot

So, I'd guess anything in the .308 class should be fine for a rebarrel. My dad did another turk as a .308 without any problems. You never know, though.

Have another mauser that now wears a commercial .30-06 barrel and I can't see anything wrong with it, either. Killed a pig with it.

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