308? Why would somebody want to do that? Ammo supply? But 8 mm Mauser ammo still seems easy to get.Д¬ould you rechamber a gun to be good for. How common was it for civilian owners to rechamber ex-Israeli Army 8 mm Mausers to. What are the markings that would prove that this is an Israeli Mauser K98? 308 after the Israeli Army sold it off, or maybe it isn't even Israeli to begin with. This leads me to suspect that somebody other than the Israeli Army rechambered the gun to. I can chamber a round, but it is a tight fit to get the bolt closed, whereas with the. I thought they were the same, but NATO 7.62 mm rounds do not fit well into my Mauser. I showed my rifle to a gunsmith and he told me it was chambered for. All I have to go on is the sales receipt that says it's an Israeli Mauser. Other than that, I don't know what marks would identify this as an Israeli Mauser. I've heard that this is because the Israelis wanted to remove the Nazi emblems from their weapons. They were surplus, but I seem to recall somewhere even having seen newly made barrels in the military configuration. Rebuilt K98 in 308 WIN its a WWII bcd4 reciever, new stock and new FN barrel. SARCO used to stock these barrels at reasonable prices. My Mauser K98 was produced in 1940 in Germany (code bcd), but has had the proof markings defaced. It's not so hard to find a K98k rifle or action and relatively easy to re-barrel using a military Mauser. My Israeli Mauser does NOT have these markings. But there was a prominent '7.62' marked on the receiver and on the stock to show which K98s were converted and which ones were not. 308' After I learned more about Israeli Mausers I found out that the Israeli Army converted a lot of their then getting obsolete K98s from 8 mm to NATO 7.62 mm in the 1950s because that's what their new standard infantry rifle used. The sales receipt says it's an 'Israeli Mauser. I didn't know anything about Mausers back then. I have a Mauser K98 that I bought back in the 1980s.

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