I think you have done a stellar job MosinVirus.
It is a credit to your perseverance, many would have given up.
You have inspired me to continue with my M38 Swedish Mauser project, it too has a warped stock which needs replaced & the replacement needs plenty of work to get up to a decent standard.
I sure did learn a lot. And the instruction given here was simply irreplaceable. I very much appreciate the sharing of this valuable information and couldn't have done half of what I was able to do on this project. I will consider this project in process until I can get everything right.
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Originally Posted by Kiwisteve
I think you have done a stellar job MosinVirus.
It is a credit to your perseverance, many would have given up.
You have inspired me to continue with my M38 Swedish Mauser project, it too has a warped stock which needs replaced & the replacement needs plenty of work to get up to a decent standard.
Thank you. I hope I will get it to be good even by my standards. New forestock on order. Hopefully that one will be straight.
Certainly looks 100% better, nice job on the parkerizing too, I gather thats a Zinc based solution? Don't be disappointed either, I,m sure a few on here would be happy to give it a home.
Front sight on it is -045, and currently it shoots about 18-20" high. The stock and nosecap could be contributing, but I did order 060, 045, 030 and 015 sight blades.
Got a new forestock and voila, this one is straight. But it is soaked in some preservative like gun oil, and only the front of the stock, which is where I suspect it warps - at the barrel band recess.
The extractor seems to be a 303 extractor. I had very inconsistent or non-existent extraction. I used a no4 rifle extractor (at least I believe that is what it is) that was sent to me by Numrich as no2 rifle extractor, and reshaped it to work with my rifle.
The round coming from left in the magazine didn't always want to feed. I reshaped the lips of the magazine, and now both sides feed properly.
I will try to straighten my existing forestock once more using the hot oil method. If it doesn't work, I will move onto the new forestock.