krag stock and 98 mauser scoped

Sporterized and unofficial modified Krags
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todd444
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krag stock and 98 mauser scoped

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i have finished my krag stock. i used citristip(4 times :evil: ), sanded the stock(340 and 400 grit), cheesecloth it, put on barley dark oil woodfiller(2 days), 400 grit and 0000 steel wool, cheesecloth,7 coats of minwax antique oil and FINALLY one coat(2days) of johnson's paste wax.



(the pix don't do it justice)

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i have cleaned a sporter Brazilian model 1908 (98 mauser) and i have put on my first scout scope. i.ve got a b square mount, butit just doesn't fit the rear sight. i have another 98 mauser rear scope mount in my junk drawer(probably some chinese model?) that fits. i'll probably do a flange nut on the rear of the rear sight, but i'll shoot her in to see. the scout scope is a vortex 2-7x .



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now on to next rifle project(s), 93 mauser in richard's Apache gold wolverine stock and i think a sporter 91 mauser or another krag stock.
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this is what the krag looked like.........

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2nd changed the stock to an sporterized original

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Re: krag stock and 98 mauser scoped

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Your Krag sporter turned out quite nice. I like the look a lot more than the commercial stock it was in, when you started!

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in the lates '50s or early '60s, my grandpap "had a guy" that replaced the "original" to fajen stocks. after he died, me, my dad and a neighbor were cleaning out his house to sell. we were in the basement when my neighbor said something like "look at this" when he reached up to the joists. his hand came down and says "what is it?" i go, "its a krag stock, i'm surprised my grandpap kept it." at the time, i was looking for "original" sporterized krag stock and my neighbor found it.

the stock was black with the dust. i wiped it off, but it was still black. so i left that way. i bought a no drill redfield 102k aperture sight about one year later and i just luv it!!! i use it every year for deer. this past January, i decided to strip off the black "gunk" from the stock. i say the stock is much better than the black "gunk".
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