Over a month cleaning and reapplying RLO to a rather forelorn Spanish Mauser finally led to a trip to the range.

A "Before":


and "After":


Well, up close it's MUCH less "grody".


"Grody to the max"

First five rounds of 140gr Remington went into ~5" at 100 yds, but the elevation was pretty good and about 5" right. Actually, that's better that expected.

Then, as the bullet weight was correct, some wierd old S&B ammo was tried:




(Never mind the .22" rf holes from previous shooting)
Max spread right at 2 3/4" and centered!

However, due to the wretched bedding of the action, the patch on the wrist came adrift.





Phooey!

Sooo... what's next?
Glass bedding the action would be easy, but it just seems wrong, even if the bolt's not matching to the rifle.
Probably won't shoot it enough to justify a massive rebuild of the stock inletting with wood bearing surfaces either.

Do you think it would be a bad thing to merely install a bent steel shim at the recoil lug area to move the action up and forward a little, and then do a quick plug and patch at the rear using large hardwood dowels?

It feels like there's two or three threads already on this particular rifle, but apparently not! There IS a large collection of photos and likely more coming, so until things get better organized you'll just have to suffer through a slideshow of the entire album, if you need more insights into this late production 7mm. (1928 was the last year the Spanish made complete '93 Mausers, apparently.)

Link to 145+ photo slideshow: http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...view=slideshow
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