Professionally Bubberized Mauser.

**garyd1961** · December 25, 2012, 16:31

I built this a couple years ago and thought I would share it with y'all. I started with an crudely sporterized Mauser in 3006. The barrel was trashed but it had a Belgium reciever and matching bolt. I bought a used 270 win barrel and a Fajen stock for it. It came with a Redfield rear sight and I put a Lyman front sight on it. It just barely closes on the no-go but not even close to closing on a field gauge after about 60 rounds through it. It's not pretty but I'm just tickled that it even shoots and it shoots pretty good.
Rifle $50
Barrel $40
Stock $40
Action Wrenck $50
Total $180
Value maybe $50- Maybe a little more to the right sucker,I mean buyer.
Loss of about $130 but I had fun.
It's a really nice action wrench so I should be able to sell it for the $50 I have in it. So I only have about $130 in the rifle. It was a lot of fun to do but I don't plan on doing another. The metal needs to be refinished but I never got around to that.

Retired Bum · December 25, 2012, 20:52

Unless you just have to sell it, you might consider keeping it as a beater rifle. If it gets banged around so what. A different caliber like .308 Win would be nice but there is nothing wrong with the .270 Win. I used to have a Sako Finnbear .270 and it was a very decent shooting rifle. The .270 with the right bullet will take down just about anything short of moose or big bears.

Maybe you could trade it for something you could use like a Model 94 30/30 if the other guy is drunk.....

And so it goes.

The Retired One

**garyd1961** · December 25, 2012, 21:14

I didn't mean I was trying to sell it but after going back and reading my post I see why you would think so. Language has always been my weak point. I have thought about taking it to gunshow and trading it on something else but never did it. I will probably just hold on to it and may even take it hunting someday. It ain't fancy but it does shoot really good.
edit-I was just looking something different to build and this was a fairly cheap and fun build.
edit- I saw another tread where they were discussing the difference between a sporterized rifle and a custom built rifle and was wondering where mine fit in. I think it's somewhere between bubberized and sporterized,lol. Compared to what I started with though I don't think I did too bad.

homelandprotector · December 25, 2012, 23:06

You couldn't find a better rifle for $180.

Good job, you win todays wecsog award.

**garyd1961** · December 26, 2012, 09:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by homelandprotector

You couldn't find a better rifle for $180.

Good job, you win todays wecsog award.

Thanks, this is the best day of my life. I can now die a happy man,lol.

Heat · January 12, 2013, 08:17

I'd own it! Bubberized fud rifles are cheap and great to keep around or carry in the truck when pokin' down a dirt road and sasquatch runs across the road into the bush.

Jailguard · January 12, 2013, 11:03

I have one almos like it but I have a Winchester 30-06 barrel cut down to 18inch. for a brush hunting rifle. It shoots good enough to put food on the table it isn't a bench rest gun but will do what i need it to.

**bykerhd** · January 12, 2013, 17:13

Finish it ?
How about some spray paint ?

Nice job on making some chicken salad out of some chicken sh*t.

**garyd1961** · January 13, 2013, 13:19

I had planned on refinishing it and on putting a scope on it but now I think I'll skip the scope and just put a cheap paint job on it.

Marksman1 · January 13, 2013, 14:53

That looks pretty good. I had to pay close to $700 here in this Godforsaken place to professionally bubberize a Chilean Mauser into a scout in 308.

Trying to replicate the Steyr concept with a something I already had.

And then Savage came out with the same thing for 1/2 the price and twice the accuracy.

Like I said, you done good.

catmguy445 · January 15, 2013, 11:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by garyd1961

I had planned on refinishing it and on putting a scope on it but now I think I'll skip the scope and just put a cheap paint job on it.

In a few more years, I can just about guarantee that you'll put a scope on it, cause you won't be able to focus the front sight any more. Ask any of us over 55 how we know that...............

**garyd1961** · January 15, 2013, 19:15

I'm 51, guess I need to be stocking up on scopes,lol.

792mauser · January 18, 2013, 14:10

Bubba be damned! If it shoots good it is good. I think it looks good. Although what do I know, I think the beat to hell Turk Mausers look good to me.

**Mebsuta** · January 20, 2013, 19:07

Nice rifel and I wouldn't refinish the metal. Unless refinishing is professionally or expertly done, I am starting to believe it promotes rust.

STGThndr · January 22, 2013, 17:21

Nice old rifle... a scope wouldnt hurt it. Then again the sights are fine if you can see em.
Seen quite a few like this in the northern Michigan deer woods back when. A nostalgic blast from the past! May your deer be many and the elk right behind!

Timber Wolf · February 12, 2013, 14:28

The base rifle was $50? The rear sight is worth that! I came into a partially sporterized 1903A3 many years ago for a $100. I added a cheap Williams peep rear sight and a ramp front sight and a very cheap Fajen pre-finished drop-in stock (this was before cheap synthetic stocks were available) and ended up with about what you have in your rifle. I think mine is a neat beater, truck, loaner, back-up, etc. rifle and would not sell it for $180.

Illurian00 · February 12, 2013, 15:12

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Unless refinishing is professionally or expertly done, I am starting to believe it promotes rust.

Through the years, I've become less & less fond of blueing. It may not promte corrosion, but it offers little prorection against it.

Finish coatings have come a long ways over the last many years, no sense not to take advantage of them.

**garyd1961** · February 23, 2013, 09:49

I started with the one on top and ended up with the bottom one. The only thing left is I may change the rear sight. The one on it works but it's missing a couple parts and is mounted on the wrong side so it's actually on backwards.

December 25, 2012, 16:31	#1
garyd1961 Curio & Relic Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 39373 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 2,694	Professionally Bubberized Mauser. I built this a couple years ago and thought I would share it with y'all. I started with an crudely sporterized Mauser in 3006. The barrel was trashed but it had a Belgium reciever and matching bolt. I bought a used 270 win barrel and a Fajen stock for it. It came with a Redfield rear sight and I put a Lyman front sight on it. It just barely closes on the no-go but not even close to closing on a field gauge after about 60 rounds through it. It's not pretty but I'm just tickled that it even shoots and it shoots pretty good. Rifle $50 Barrel $40 Stock $40 Action Wrenck $50 Total $180 Value maybe $50- Maybe a little more to the right sucker,I mean buyer. Loss of about $130 but I had fun. It's a really nice action wrench so I should be able to sell it for the $50 I have in it. So I only have about $130 in the rifle. It was a lot of fun to do but I don't plan on doing another. The metal needs to be refinished but I never got around to that. __________________ One nation under God. Last edited by garyd1961; December 25, 2012 at 21:28.

December 25, 2012, 21:14	#3
garyd1961 Curio & Relic Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 39373 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 2,694	I didn't mean I was trying to sell it but after going back and reading my post I see why you would think so. Language has always been my weak point. I have thought about taking it to gunshow and trading it on something else but never did it. I will probably just hold on to it and may even take it hunting someday. It ain't fancy but it does shoot really good. edit-I was just looking something different to build and this was a fairly cheap and fun build. edit- I saw another tread where they were discussing the difference between a sporterized rifle and a custom built rifle and was wondering where mine fit in. I think it's somewhere between bubberized and sporterized,lol. Compared to what I started with though I don't think I did too bad. __________________ One nation under God. Last edited by garyd1961; December 25, 2012 at 21:42.

December 25, 2012, 23:06	#4
homelandprotector Registered FALaholic #: 16592 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 6,135	You couldn't find a better rifle for $180. Good job, you win todays wecsog award. __________________ We need about 3000 Ron Paul's in Washington.....HLP

January 12, 2013, 11:03	#7
Jailguard Registered FALaholic #: 10331 Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: west central Florida Posts: 2,243	I have one almos like it but I have a Winchester 30-06 barrel cut down to 18inch. for a brush hunting rifle. It shoots good enough to put food on the table it isn't a bench rest gun but will do what i need it to. __________________ "Our conduct defines us." What every officer should live by. It's the tool behind the tool that makes the difference. ~ Chet

January 13, 2013, 13:19	#9
garyd1961 Curio & Relic Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 39373 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 2,694	I had planned on refinishing it and on putting a scope on it but now I think I'll skip the scope and just put a cheap paint job on it. __________________ One nation under God.

December 25, 2012, 20:52	#2
Retired Bum Registered FALaholic #: 21904 Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,182	Unless you just have to sell it, you might consider keeping it as a beater rifle. If it gets banged around so what. A different caliber like .308 Win would be nice but there is nothing wrong with the .270 Win. I used to have a Sako Finnbear .270 and it was a very decent shooting rifle. The .270 with the right bullet will take down just about anything short of moose or big bears. Maybe you could trade it for something you could use like a Model 94 30/30 if the other guy is drunk..... And so it goes. The Retired One

January 12, 2013, 08:17	#6
Heat Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 31713 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: N Idaho Posts: 2,583	I'd own it! Bubberized fud rifles are cheap and great to keep around or carry in the truck when pokin' down a dirt road and sasquatch runs across the road into the bush.

January 12, 2013, 17:13	#8
bykerhd Dinosaur Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 2798 Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Burlington Vermont area Posts: 13,262	Finish it ? How about some spray paint ? Nice job on making some chicken salad out of some chicken sh*t.

January 13, 2013, 14:53	#10
Marksman1 Registered FALaholic #: 3174 Join Date: May 2001 Location: Somewhere in New England Posts: 484	That looks pretty good. I had to pay close to $700 here in this Godforsaken place to professionally bubberize a Chilean Mauser into a scout in 308. Trying to replicate the Steyr concept with a something I already had. And then Savage came out with the same thing for 1/2 the price and twice the accuracy. Like I said, you done good. __________________ "The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles" Jeff Cooper-The Art of The Rifle.

January 15, 2013, 19:15	#12
garyd1961 Curio & Relic Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 39373 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 2,694	I'm 51, guess I need to be stocking up on scopes,lol. __________________ One nation under God.

January 18, 2013, 14:10	#13
792mauser Registered FALaholic #: 33607 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Phx AZ Posts: 177	Bubba be damned! If it shoots good it is good. I think it looks good. Although what do I know, I think the beat to hell Turk Mausers look good to me. __________________ Omae O Korosu

January 20, 2013, 19:07	#14
Mebsuta Khemi, Stygia Contributor FALaholic #: 4143 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Khemi, Stygia Posts: 6,294	Nice rifel and I wouldn't refinish the metal. Unless refinishing is professionally or expertly done, I am starting to believe it promotes rust.

January 22, 2013, 17:21	#15
STGThndr Registered FALaholic #: 14583 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Southern Colorado mtns and desert Posts: 3,409	Nice old rifle... a scope wouldnt hurt it. Then again the sights are fine if you can see em. Seen quite a few like this in the northern Michigan deer woods back when. A nostalgic blast from the past! May your deer be many and the elk right behind! __________________ Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B Yeats

February 12, 2013, 14:28	#16
Timber Wolf Registered FALaholic #: 805 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Southern U.S. Posts: 2,801	The base rifle was $50? The rear sight is worth that! I came into a partially sporterized 1903A3 many years ago for a $100. I added a cheap Williams peep rear sight and a ramp front sight and a very cheap Fajen pre-finished drop-in stock (this was before cheap synthetic stocks were available) and ended up with about what you have in your rifle. I think mine is a neat beater, truck, loaner, back-up, etc. rifle and would not sell it for $180. __________________ First rule of gun fighting: "have a gun!" "Guns don't kill people. Daddys with good looking daughters do!"

February 23, 2013, 09:49	#18
garyd1961 Curio & Relic Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 39373 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: NC Posts: 2,694	I started with the one on top and ended up with the bottom one. The only thing left is I may change the rear sight. The one on it works but it's missing a couple parts and is mounted on the wrong side so it's actually on backwards. __________________ One nation under God.

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