The barrel now fitted to the reciver, head space not an issue since I will be forming brass, and the bolt wont close on a factory 06 round. I decided to go ahead since I have to turn the shank down and rethread anyway, I took. Thats a little more than I want on a small ring action. I have a FN take off barrel thats never been fired in cal 30-06. I know the barrel shank on the is diffrent that other small ring Mausers so after some measuring I find its. So I mounted it in my trusty reciver wrench and held the wrench in my vice and took my 24" pipe wrench to the barrel expecting a fight. To start I had heard horror stories about getting the old barrel off (its been on there over 100 years). I love the lines on the 91, I have a coupe that shoot awesome, so I just cant let this one waste away. There are aftermarket low- profile safeties which usually don't work that well.So I have this old sporterized 1891 Argentine, stock cut barrel pitted beyond being able to hold a decent "pattern". If you are wanting to add a standard eye- relief scope with the receiver drilled and tapped, keep in mind that Mausers can be tricky due to the safety mounted on the rear of the bolt and can cause clearance problems with the scope's eyepiece. There is a commercial base on the market right now which does the same thing. May have drilled a hole through the front, as well- that was over 30 yrs ago and can't remember. It was a tight drop-in fit into the rifle's sight base and then drilled thru the 2 existing side/pivot holes on the sight housing and into the Buehler base, then tapped it and had a good solid mount. I used a Buehler dovetail base, if memory serves. I did that once and it made a very sleek rifle with a little 2X Leupold on top- instant sight acquisition. It is possible to remove the rear sight and use the soldered- on sight base as a sort of holder for base/rings on which to mount a pistol scope in a "scout" configuration.
If the iron sights are working well for you, then no problem. Norma N-201 is/was a great powder for that cartridge (if you can find it) with 150gr. You will have a hard time finding reloading information which will give you velocities anywhere near Norma factory speed, because the model 1891 is not considered as strong as later model '98 Mausers (and Argentine Modelo '09) and published data respects that fact.
30-06 brass through 7.65 dies and trim to length and fire- form, remembering that you then have to reduce your powder charge due to less case capacity (thicker mil- spec brass).
If you can't find factory Boxer- primed brass to load, you can run. There are 7.65 (.311-.313) bullets available from most major bullet makers- same diameter as used by. 308 calibers, but you could say that about anything that isn't. About the only limit for loading is/was the bullet selection, which isn't as good as for. Inspect your fired brass.Īt one time (they may still) Norma loaded factory ammo to about 1/2 way between. Many Model 1891s had mismatched bolts which can lead to head- space issues. They had 2- stage triggers which responded to tweaking by skilled hands. Model '91s were exceedingly well made and finely crafted rifles.