I picked up this Mauser 48A for $125 from a nice guy who had it listed on this forum! The stock was beat up and still had grease packed in the barrel.
The bore has pitting in the lands the whole length but the groves look good, I cleaned the hell out of the bore had a ton of copper in it. Thank god for breakfree bore foam, saved me alot of time, but it sure took a lot of patches lol.
Going to shoot then clean the bore a few times and hope that will clean up the pitting it does not look to deep.
Here is the finished stock that I put a tung oil finish on:
The bore has pitting in the lands the whole length but the groves look good, I cleaned the hell out of the bore had a ton of copper in it. Thank god for breakfree bore foam, saved me alot of time, but it sure took a lot of patches lol.
Going to shoot then clean the bore a few times and hope that will clean up the pitting it does not look to deep.
Here is the finished stock that I put a tung oil finish on: