My FN south american 1894 mauser project

[1911crazy]

First;  No orginal surplus military guns were hurt by me in this process.  I do not make sporters from orginal surplus military guns.  I like to build from miss'd matched junk parts, abused military rifles with shotout barrels or get bubba guns and tweek them out. Most of my builds only cost under $200 there nothing special but just mailny good shooters.  Some of these do deserve a new lease on life.
 
A few years back i picked up a half @ss bubba'd FN small ring mauser in 308.  I got the complete barreled receiver.  Its been on the back burner all this time.  I dragged it out lastnight and checked the headspace to make sure its ok. The bore looks awesome too.  Of course bubba picks the best guns right?  It headspaced right on the money.  I'm going to shorten the barrel to maybe 17'' or 18'' and fit it to a used swede stock. I have the metal parts to make it a twin to a swede m94.  I already ordered the chamber adapter to convert it from 308 to 7,62x39. I plan on scoping it. I figure withy 125gr sp bullets she is a good small game varmit rifle and with the 154gr sp bullets its a good deer youth rifle being equal in power to a 30-30. It will be a 100yd max range rifle i figure. The perfect little youth tree stand rifle. I'm going with a bushnell banner scope its about $99.  I think i can turn this bubba screwed up rifle into a good little shooter. This build is for my grandson as his first deer hunting rifle. It was either a rebarreling to maybe .243win or use a chamber adapter to make it 7,62x39.   Watcha think???                                       
 
Now i'm thinking of taking my '93 chilean 7mm rifle build and shortening the 29'' barrel to 18'' or 20'' too.  This would be his next shooter.  A while back i picked up a bubba'd swede mauser that wasn't finished too.  I want to make a twin to a swede m94 in 6,5mm and scope it too.      CZY
 
BTW;  My new grandson is only 1 1/2 years old.  I have purchased most of the different action 22cal rifles already for him.  Now i'm starting on his hunting rifles.  I figure if i plan ahead incase i pass on he will be all set up to shoot and hunt.           

[1911crazy]

My chamber adapter came in from ankorage, alaska yesterday and it looks great.  I need to install it now.

[mannyrock]

 
   Will the short Russian round feed smoothly in the rifle?  Most Mexicans I have seen were chambered for the .30-06, or the 7mm.  Both are long action rounds.
 
   If it already feeds the .308 round smoothly, then I would strongly consider getting a chamber adaptor in 7mm-08 instead of the Russian.
 
   I always wanted to do a project with a Mexican action, because they are suppose to be really really great, but I could never find one at a reasonable price.
 
Regards,
 
Mannyrock

[1911crazy]

It headspaced ok with the 308win go gauge.  Its an FN mauser not a mexican like i was told and thought.  It was a 7mm mauser but converted to 308. Its a small ring 1894 FN mauser.  The chamber adapter went in perfect.  Now i have the magazine adapter for the 7,62x39 shorter round too that came with a shorter follower and spacer for the 39mm round. .  The 7,62x39 rim fits the bolt extractor perfectly too.  My barreled receiver now looks like a go for my project youth 7,62x39 bolt action first deer rifle for my grandson.  I would also like to add the orginal sights on the barrel and also scope it.
 
My next project will be my 1891 cut down arg short barrel mauser too.  My next thing is to see what size the bore diameter is.
 
I have 4 or 5 rifle projects for this winter,  the FN in 7,62x39,  the 1891 arg in ? caliber,  the swede bubba 96 to an m38, scope my swiss k31 and tweek it in with st marie accessories.   In the spring or if we have no snow i can bench rest them all.

[1911crazy]

Update;
I have the chamber adapter installed and i just knocked off the front sight.  My next move is to think about shortening the barrel to 16'' or leave it at 18''.  Its been cut already.  I also have the swedish m94 rear sight to install on the barrel.  I want to build a swede m94 look a like in 7,62x39. I wanted to ask if a timmey trigger is worth it or not for my build.  Since this is a very affordable build I would like to maybe put something different into this build that i never done before??                 CZY
I'm going very slow on this one a little at a time not to rush it and make a bad decision.  I'm going to make my own m94 stock set too.  Once i have the orginal iron sights on the barrel i may also scope it too.  I figure it would be a nice short range varmit / deer rifle.

[SCCogswell]

I have the Timney triggers in 3 Mauser sporters; they are definitely very nice triggers, but they are also definitely a hunting rifle trigger: they sit at the rear of the trigger guard, have a short single-stage pull, are adjustable for weight, pretravel, overtravel, etc.
 
Another alternative is the Huber Concepts trigger. It's a military trigger (unlike the Timneys), but is also semi-adjustable and has a roller ball, so trigger pull is very smooth as well as crisp and (fairly) light. Keeps the milsurps "military", but you get a sweet trigger. I've got one in a 1903A3, and am definitely getting more for the M-N 91/30s, the SMLE, etc.
 
Unless I misunderstood, your '94 is going to remain "military" (a milsporter?), so you might want the Huber. Either trigger is worlds better than the issue trigger. For a young shooter, a good trigger means one less thing for them to try to manage.

[shot1]

Bold also makes a good after market trigger that cost much less than a Timney. I have one on my sported, "saved from Bubba" M-96 Swede. It has the slide safety on it. I put it into a composite stock cut the bolt handle off and made a new one and welded it on shaped for scope use. Drilled and tapped it. Shoots like a dream.