William Dykstra
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- Mar 28, 2018
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I've been thinking quite a bit about building a Karabiner 98 in 30-06 Springfield. I would like to know what /riflecountry/ thinks. I bought this FN made Mauser 98 action (Circ. 1932) Action off of Gunbroker.com. It came with all the receiver parts(bolt, trigger group, magazine, ect.). I've also found a website call Lothar-Walther.com, it's a company in Germany that makes drop-in barrels for numerous different Mauser rifles(1888,1896,1898, ect.). One of the barrells they offer is a 30-06 barrel with the K98k contour. I also found a company in Germany that makes reproduction stocks, the website if PPHU-Fox.com. One interesting thing I discovered is that after the second world war, the Norwegians had captured some 400,000 K98 Mausers from occupying forces. They chambers the majority of them in 30-06 Springfield because at the time the U.S. had stockpiles of it. The Norwegians interestingly enough cut a notch in the receiver to accommodate the longer cartridge (30-06 is 6mm longer than 8x57JS.) Now the weird thing is I have Gewehr 98 (Amberg 1916) chambered in 8x57JS that can fit 30-06 just fine in its magazine, and I can feed it in with stripper clips just fine with out the receiver getting in the way. I just press the button on bottom of the mag well and the cartridges fall out and everything is safe. Now, my questions are why did the Norwegians cut the notch in the Mauser 98 receiver if 30-06 can fit just fine? And what will be that approximate value of such a rifle that is build off an original FN Mauser 98 Action buy has a repro stock and barrel, but also is comprised off of original Mauser parts (buttplate, rear and front sights, etc)?