You can come by one of these honestly, as these were awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to USN and USMC Team shooters as "trophy rifles" for noteable accomplishments in competition, and lots of us sold them to finance our "shooting habit".
Chilean mauser model 1895 short rifle mod#
That was the Mk2-1 rifle (Mark 2, Mod 1). It was more cost effective to have the rifles rebarreled with new 7.62 barrels made at Springfield in 19. There were two varients of the inserts, the second slightly better than the first, but still not operationally effective and not operationally reliable. When the Navy gave up on the project, a bunch of the inserts were sold as scrap, and you can still find them for sale. None were released to the public "several years ago", so what you had was either a bubba or possibly a Pakistani "conversion". I beleave the US Navy did the mods.The Navy rifle with the insert was the Mark 2 Mod 0.
He was the one who told me that my old barrel was modified like this. I shot the heck out of it and when the barrel was gone I had a new 308 Kreager match barrel installed and the rifle tooned by my favorit gas gun guy and used it for match shooting. I know this because I had one several years ago. They built a spacer that was inserted into the chamber and fired a 308 round in it this jamed the spacer into the front of the 06 chamber and wa-la instant 308 rifle. The US did the same thing with garands to convert them to 308. I've done a lot of silver soldering with 99.9% pure silver, also a subject lesson from Pete Jimenez long ago. Powder gases were hot enough to melt and vaporize the solder. Wasn't hard to figure where the solder went from gaps in the joint. I wonder what that did to chamber pressure and accuracy? When the rear sight bases were re-attached and soldered in place this one was overheated to the point that the bore dimension shrunk enough to tear off copper from the bullet as it was swaged down zipping through the barrel. The place where the excessive copper fouling occured was directly underneath the rear sight base and extended about the exact length of the rear sight base. Why? I sat there in the shop and it finally dawned on me, something taught to me by the old Mexican blacksmith & welder in a Los Angeles rail shop decades ago. The rifling in this area for about 2 inches was more heavily fouled with copper than the whole rest of the 29" long barrel. One of the secondary discoveries isn't evident in these photos but involved an excess of copper fouling in the bore an inch or so in front of the chamber. They were never intended to chamber and fire. These conversions were done as an expedient means of utilizing existing rifle inventories in a country short of pesos intended for 2nd line use. Many newbies refer to Samco Global's White Laboratory ~paper~ on the strength and safety of the general topic. Over the years these photos have provoked a lot of discussion on the issue of 7.62x51 Nato in 18 Mauser actions. Apparently nobody had made this discovery yet as there was nothing anywhere on the web or in any Mauser book about this. Imagine my surprise when this is what I found. 062" thick cutter with side clearance teeth and sliced this puppy open. Having a vertical milling machine at home makes jobs like this fun so I clamped it up in the mill and took a thin 3" x. So, I removed the barrel and sure enough there was a silver ring around the chamber. Looking into the chamber one day I noticed this sliver ring at the end of the barrel and wondered what it be. Both were rather ratty but I wanted them for shop projects as mock up models and the like.
I had purchased two of these 1895 Mausers from Century in one of their pallet sales for $65 each. No less than John Wall, Mauser collector & researcher supreme routinely refer to this page.
What has brought this page so much attention with Mauser collectors is the cut-a-way of the chamber showing the soldered insert. It concerns the 1895 Chilean Mauser conversions to 7.62x51 Nato. This page at my Swedish Mauser website gets a very high visitor count consistantly.
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