Project? I have a 1898 Lee Metford bolt and action, rebarreled 1908 to Enfield rifling.

No wood, no trigger, no magazine...

It's going to take serious work and money to get this baby in firing order again.

Mr. FM - a cross to bear indeed...

That's not a "project" gun -- a little trigger work and adding a scope is what you have to do for most NEW guns these days.

It's a beauty, and I'm envious. My old Stalingrad Sally is a complete dog by comparison -- but I get smaller groups than yours nyah nyah nyah, even with El Cheapo brand 8x57 ammo.

Incidentally, once you get a scope on Micky, he'll be more accurate than you are. Those V-sights are a pox on the landscape, and your grouping is actually quite respectable.

By the way, this illustrates the dangers of going to Germany. One minute, you're dialling in bombing coordinates, the next you're eating Eisbein and buying Mausers.

Good thing you didn't visit Japan, or you'd now be the owner of an Arisaka, and eating sushi.

Absolutely Fabulous

When you think about it, that grouping in the picture is all you really need when you're shooting at enemy soldiers.

So really, the rifle is as accurate as it needs to be.

You can't shoot a blunt Mauser! You, sir, need a bayonet on that there rifle :P

About time Mr FM, Sadly it wont qualify for the old bill comp but it is a nice rifle nonetheless.
I found the early G98 sights to start at 400m a bit of a challenge!

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Lovely stuff indeed, good sir!

As an owner of a closet full of Mausers and Magnum Mausers, they are a lot nicer to shoot with a properly done sporter stock, reworked bolt handle, decent pad if you go magnum calibers, modern telescope, and a nice match trigger. I have historical ones too, but they don't get shot near as much.

My two favorites evolved into a bull barrel .220 Swift and a .308 Norma Magnum. Favorite, but less useful in the US for most things, became a .375 H&H. Real English Walnut American style sporter stocks I made myself. The Military versions are mostly hanger queens, not that you couldn't hunt with them, but I don't find I ever choose to.

Don't worry, they came to me as surplus WW2 actions. I didn't hack up nice surplus rifles to make them.

Nice rifle and will shoot things, but the state of the art in firearms ergonomics has evolved a bit in the past century, even in bolt rifles.

.308 - sweet and easy!! I'm currently on the fence since I like bot sides - and all my stuff is OLD, except the most recent paper-puncher and my first NEW rifle ever. It does a good job, better then the '44 Garand anyhow.

Actually, the norwegian army never used the m98, instead using firstly the old Krag-Jørgensen, then the Lee -Enfield and later the M1 rifle, till 1968. They were however used by the RNoAF and the Home Guard, rebarreled to the the manly 30.06, or 7.62x63 in military parlance. your 7.62 x51(308.) is almost certainly an after release modification of the armed forces version.