Neanderpundit

Now that i know the Mau will not self destruct when I pull the trigger, I can move forward with other issues.

I have a Timney for it, that will get fitted and set aside till after bluing. The stock two stage trigger isn’t actually that bad, other than having, apparently, a 14″ length of pull.

Today I did scope bases; not a lot of options for a 93 because of the distance behind the receiver, so I bought the reccomended Weaver pair (and still had to do some machining to get them right)

Here’s the reveivber in the mill, being drilled. I began the threads in the mill by spinning the chuck out of gear, just so the threads would start straight, but I finished them by hand. The conventional wisdom is that the 93’s were soft, but this is an Oviedo Mauser, and I’m here to tell you this bastard was glass hard. I would move the tap maybe an eighth of a turn, then back off, lube with some tapmagic, and go back another eighth of a turn, lather, rinse, repeat.

I got them drilled and tapped, and the bases went on perfectly. I will most likely have to shave some off the rear base because as standard it’s about .020″ too high, but that’s a few minutes work.

The bloody taps are tiny and brittle. I am quite impressed wiht myself that I didn’t break one. Next is mount a scope, shoot it a bit, see how it does. Then the trigger, spend a little time on the stock, and blue.

This will be a plinker, and with the new laws in Indiana may end up being a meat gun. I wouldn’t feel undergunned at all with a box of Nosler Partitions in this. And it should shoot nicely out to 100 yards, which gives me a bit more than the levergun does. The receiver is rusty, and I am loathe to remove the rust, lest i take the casehardening with it, so I will do a coarse garnet blast which is the firearm equivalent of texture paint.

The stock is a standard 93 carbine, bubbaed but not too horribly, and it’s a very nice piece of walnut so I may very well leave it just as is.

Read a great article that said, if your trigger pull is close to the gun weight, and you arent holding the gun tight, you are pushing the gun out of position each time you pull the trigger. So i snugged up my grip and shot better. I NEED some professional help.