It has been a while since my last post ,but as always we have been busy. About 4 weeks ago I obtain a large number of old rusty Mauser rifles, mostly from China but a number of European ones as well. It took two weekends to pick them all up.
How they were stored.
The first load.
After Axel started removing them from the truck and taking a break.
The second load that was in the truck, I forgot to take a picture of the trailer.
We, meaning Axel, have been separating them out to different grades and countries of origin. It has been a ton of work to do this.
There are actually twice this number.
I have a few pictures of some of the interesting markings.
Even a few GEW 98s
After cleaning one of the GEW 98
There were even Mexican Mauser rifles
A few of them we cleaned up using vinegar to check out the condition of the receivers.
The bottom rifle was just soaked in oil and not vinegar to show the difference.
There is still a great deal of work left to do. A number of these will be for gunsmithing projects in the future.
Wow you got a pile of Mauser’s!
All full length rifles, or are there carbines mixed in? (I know technically ALL KAR98K Mausers are “Carbines” but I mean Artillery/Cavalry carbines)
Was not aware that FN made Mauser’s. Question on the vinegar process, did you just soak them or use a ultrasonic cleaner? How do you neutralize the vinegar and stop rust post process? Thanks
Just soak then in Vinegar, with the rust build up they have it takes about a day, the use a brass or stainless brush to clean off the grime and clean with oil to stop the rust from coming back.
Nice fence-post collection! Maybe a giant “Peace-sign” welded sculpture for display at the SAR show in December!
Yes, Cathy and I will be there…is there going to be a MG34 .308 demo? Or sales?
Beautiful find of iron-oxide history there…not much greasy-gun-part sorting this time!!!
Save any Greenpeace-party crested Mausers you find for me…
Rhett
nice collection. is there a link to a shop site please.
Are those from the Samco Global stash of days gone? The Chinese Nationalist ones are particularly interesting. Let me know if you need any help translating the markings.
I will. One of my projects is to make a board of all the different Chinese crests I fine.
Very interesting.
Just a few months ago, I was visited by the thought (in a semi-optional manner) of creating a semi-auto rifle which is based on the bolt group from Mauser.
I was forced to abandon the idea, because I thought that it would not be possible to find a noticeable number of initial parts at the price of scrap metal …
It turns out to be possible.
If interested, I am also an enthusiast of such work and have the opportunity to complete the project.
We can contact via email.
Sent a message on Facebook but I think their filtering thing might’ve put it in your spam. Would you consider selling any? I would love a project.
Are you going to be restoring these Mausers and selling any?
Looks like a lot of hard work and big project for sure. I love it!
I’m a ammature gunsmith I’ve actually nearly finished a musket that I’ve created the stock for and inletted all the parts for is the ANY possibility that I could purchase 2 of these for any price for me and my dad to work on