This isn't a vintage sniper rifle, but some of you might find it interesting:
I had a surplus 1939 Oberndorf Mauser that was just sitting in the safe, never really shot it much, so I decided to scope it and make it a bit more practical for hunting and target shooting without straying too far from the original look.
It's got the original 98 laminate stock, which was blonde and not well oiled.
I steamed the dings out of it, sanded, varnished and oiled it.
Put a lace-on cheek rest on it and installed a pachmayr pad on the butt.
The rifle had a .30-06 conversion done by 'Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik' in the 50's for use in the norwegian army (hence the F1 designation).
I drilled and tapped the receiver for a 20 MOA EGW rail and put a Zeiss Victory 2,5-10x50 on it in some cheap rings.
The trigger is an excellent match trigger from Kongsberg which I took from a Mauser M67 target rifle. That's where I got the bent bolt handle as well.
I have duracoated the metal flat black after I took these pictures, but here's what I ended up with:
I had a surplus 1939 Oberndorf Mauser that was just sitting in the safe, never really shot it much, so I decided to scope it and make it a bit more practical for hunting and target shooting without straying too far from the original look.
It's got the original 98 laminate stock, which was blonde and not well oiled.
I steamed the dings out of it, sanded, varnished and oiled it.
Put a lace-on cheek rest on it and installed a pachmayr pad on the butt.
The rifle had a .30-06 conversion done by 'Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik' in the 50's for use in the norwegian army (hence the F1 designation).
I drilled and tapped the receiver for a 20 MOA EGW rail and put a Zeiss Victory 2,5-10x50 on it in some cheap rings.
The trigger is an excellent match trigger from Kongsberg which I took from a Mauser M67 target rifle. That's where I got the bent bolt handle as well.
I have duracoated the metal flat black after I took these pictures, but here's what I ended up with:
