I thought about buying a new bolt for it but then I'm putting money into it so unless I find one cheap, probably will just clean up this one. I'm wondering if I can fit an M43 front sight on it. Probably need to do some barrel work to get it to fit.
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I thought about buying a new bolt for it but then I'm putting money into it so unless I find one cheap, probably will just clean up this one. I'm wondering if I can fit an M43 front sight on it. Probably need to do some barrel work to get it to fit.
I think you will get more than $20 worth of fun breathing some life back into Bubbas handy work.
Tap the end of the barrel and add a suppressor!
I have taken a little time on this project. I stripped the stock, sanded the cross grain sanding marks out and have one coat of blo on it. I also put a K98 style bayonet lug on it as I had one here. Just finished polishing up the roughly cut barrel end. I was going to shorten it but when I took measurements it's less than an 8th inch longer than it should be for the bayonet lug and I'm not going to mess with it for that. I also polished the bolt handle so I'm satisfied with how it looks. It is just brazed on but I can't imagine it being abused enough to fall off. It isn't even an emergency lug on these mausers. Most of the rust is off the metal. I still have a little to do with that.
The front sight is the stumper. I obviously can't keep that piece of crap on it. Thought about getting a M43 front sight but that might entail a lot of hand work fitting it on. Probably my best option but also considering a commercial type sight to take advantage of the screw hole. Thinking that will look a little weird on an otherwise military appearing rifle. I'm not in any real rush. I'm surprised I put this much effort into it so far.
Why not just use a Mauser barrel ring sight and use the drilled hole for the set screw ?
I actually have an MK3 Lee Enfield sight. It is quite a bit smaller than the barrel dimension. I don't have access to a lathe so it would be a long arduous process to dremel or file it down for it to fit. I have considered it but would prefer an easier approach.
Using the drilled hole for a set screw would be ideal but haven't seen a front sight this would work with yet. This is something an in person gun show would be more helpful with than scanning the internet for. Hoping to do that soon.
I'm thinking something like this would work. One screw hole. Just don't know if I would like the way it looks.
https://www.brownells.com/userdocs/p...7156350_5..jpg
LOL, true but I don't want to contribute to stupid looking if I can help it.