Author Topic: interarms mark x actions (Read 41008 times)

Swampman · « **Reply #30 on:** October 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM »

A lot of people looked at it but they all said it was too heavy. I really needed the money to pay for my Marlin 1895 .45-70 or I'd have just given it to one of my sons. I already had a Model 700 in .270 and I didn't need 2.

Brithunter · « **Reply #31 on:** October 06, 2009, 11:14:59 AM »

Quote from: Swampman on October 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM

A lot of people looked at it but they all said it was too heavy. I really needed the money to pay for my Marlin 1895 .45-70 or I'd have just given it to one of my sons. I already had a Model 700 in .270 and I didn't need 2.

Hey swampman,

I would have laughed at them and told em to go get fitter ............. sheesh some folks

bet they brought some drastic plastic modern thing and let your very nice real rifle slip away

Mind you it sounds like they didn't deserve such a fine rifle

.

Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #32 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:51:28 PM »

Quote from: Swampman on October 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM

A lot of people looked at it but they all said it was too heavy. I really needed the money to pay for my Marlin 1895 .45-70 or I'd have just given it to one of my sons. I already had a Model 700 in .270 and I didn't need 2.

For $200 I'd have kept it or given it to one of my kids.

On the other hand, if you have any more rifles you want to give away, I'm always looking for bargains.

Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #33 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:53:48 PM »

Quote from: Coyote Hunter on October 06, 2009, 01:51:28 PM

Quote from: Swampman on October 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM
A lot of people looked at it but they all said it was too heavy. I really needed the money to pay for my Marlin 1895 .45-70 or I'd have just given it to one of my sons. I already had a Model 700 in .270 and I didn't need 2.

I paid $350 for my NIB Mark X action - no barrel or stock, but it did come with a Timney trigger. Should get it back from Krieger in a week or so.

For $200 I'd have kept it or given it to one of my kids. On the other hand, if you have any more rifles you want to give away, I'm always looking for bargains.

Swampman · « **Reply #34 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:57:36 PM »

They were made for people on a budget and were inexpensive when they were being produced. A lot of folks seemed to know that. I kept the Remington because it was accurate.

Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #35 on:** October 07, 2009, 03:51:08 AM »

Quote from: Swampman on October 06, 2009, 01:57:36 PM

They were made for people on a budget and were inexpensive when they were being produced. A lot of folks seemed to know that. I kept the Remington because it was accurate.

There is a very big difference between “inexpensive” and “poor quality”. In fact, the Interarms Mark X Mausers are generally recognized as one of the better commercial Mausers and Mausers in general are pretty highly regarded for their strength, reliability and safety features. Many very accurate, high quality rifles have been built on Mauser actions.

The Interarms rifles I’ve seen haven’t suffered any in the accuracy department. Regardless of its accuracy, at $200 with the stock someone got a real bargain.

shootercochran · « **Reply #36 on:** December 30, 2009, 03:40:20 AM »

I have a mark x in .300 wm.
Really nice gun, they really have nice smooth actions as well.
However the wood behind the reciever cracked on mine.
Seems that is a fault of them. However they are wonderful guns.

Bigeasy · « **Reply #37 on:** December 30, 2009, 10:06:47 AM »

Just last night, I picked up a Charles Daly mauser action 30-06, in a plastic stock, perfect shape, with a 2x7 Burris scope for $385.00, used. Action is slick, blueing is well polished, with no defects. Couldn't turn it down at that price. It is the same action as the Mark X, and the Remington version, made in Yugoslavia. I don't think its been shot more then a box or so. I need another 30-06 like a hole in the head, but I hate to mess with an FN Mauser in 30-06 that I have been thinking about re-stocking. I'll get it to the range when I can, and if it's a shooter, then it's going to have a real pretty peice of French walnut in its future. I have been wanting to do a complex hand checkering job on a rifle, so this will be it...

Larry

Swampman · « **Reply #38 on:** December 30, 2009, 10:20:03 AM »

Sounds like a great scope too. Always on the prowl for second hand 2-7s

Bigeasy · « **Reply #39 on:** December 30, 2009, 10:51:50 AM »

Thats what sealed the deal. Usually when you find a good deal on a nice rifle, it has some cheap, coke bottle special mounted on it. I have several Burris 2x7 scopes on other guns, and they are pretty good in my opinion, for the money.

Larry

WL44 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 04, 2010, 07:48:26 PM »

Shootercochran,

You probably know this, but cracking in the tang area can be common on Mauser type actions where the inletting is not "correctly" done.

Many Mauser type actions have a flat type pistol grip design so that the rear of the tang does not butt up against the wood of the stock at all. Alternatively, the inletting is relieved a little in that area to leave a slight gap. If not, recoil tends to cause a crack in that area over time, particularly in the larger calibers. The tang is like a wedge splitting the stock apart if that is not done.

This is apparently common in other designs that have the front receiver screw in the recoil lug too.

Mikey · « **Reply #41 on:** January 05, 2010, 01:37:39 AM »

Shootercochran: what WL44 said. If that area is relieved so the action tang does not impact the stock behind the action you might lose some accuracy. I have seen lots of Mausers, although most mil-spec or mil-surp with cracked stocks like that. I picked up a FN 98 sporter with a stock cracked like that. Proper bedding is the cure. Once bedded the bedding takes up all the recoil between the action and the stock and this also helps accuracy; bedding is also used to fill in the cracks in the stock.

If you like the wood on your Mark X, get some bedding compound and go to it. If you don't want to get your fingers stuck together then have your gunsmith properly bed the action for ya.... HTH.

BB · « **Reply #42 on:** January 13, 2010, 01:58:13 PM »

Just found this site while surfing. I have a Interarms Mark X magnum action. Brand new, blued and has never been used. I've had it since the 70's , does'nt look like I will ever use it. Can anyone tell me it's worth and where I may lookmto sell it?

Mikey · « **Reply #43 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:58:30 AM »

BB: Welcome to graybeard's and welcome aboard. Blow the dust off that Mark X and let us know what caliber it is and we should be able to give you some fair indication of how much it might be worth. Of course, you can always send me the rifle and all your ammo and I will shoot the snot outta it and then pass it around to a couple of other Graybeard members for their evaluation and we will let you know what we think it's worth............... just a thought...........

ColtM1911A1 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 14, 2010, 07:44:32 AM »

As with BB. I just found this site after a Google check concerning Mark X actions...

I just purchased a rifle yesterday that I have looked at for a year or more. It was a 7mm Rem Mag with the Mark X action, bedded and floated Douglas XX air gauged/fluted & SS barrel, a Timney trigger, a High Tech Specialty fiberglass stock fully bedded and floated stock, with one inch Redfield rings and bases. I think it didn't sell because of the stock -- it was scratched and beat-up somewhat. I've already taken care of that with Fiber-Fill and several coats of Brownell's AlumaHyde paint...

After forty plus years of shooting, hunting, and trap work, this is what I'd call my first custom rifle, and I think after researching this and a couple other sites that the $425.00 price out-the-door was quite reasonable. FWIW, that barrel cleans up very well as do my factory lapped barrels. Now, if it shoots, I'll be quite happy; if it doesn't, well.....

Thanks for the great forum. I'm certain I'll be back again...

BB · « **Reply #45 on:** January 14, 2010, 09:53:26 AM »

Mikey...it is just the action. Brand new, a barrel has never been attached. It is a magnum action though.

Mikey · « **Reply #46 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:53:01 PM »

BB: well, so much fer shootin' up alla yer ammo....................

dougw47 · « **Reply #47 on:** March 06, 2010, 09:57:45 PM »

I was in my LGS back before Christmas and saw a Mark X .270 standard rifle that was a little rough. I started to pick it up, but it was Christmas and I got grandkids to buy for...so I put it back. A guy was watching over my shoulder and I thought, "I'll bet he will snatch this one up if I leave it." I walked over to the other side of the store and he picked it up. I hung around a moment, turns out that he had put a 7mm Rem Mag on layaway. Problem was that he had a lease on a small piece of land and the owner would not let him use the 7 mag.

He put it on layaway. I said, "Shucks!" Did not think about it after that till last weekend, walked in the store and it was back on the shelf!

Needless to say, it went with me this time. I am thinking .35 Whelen...

Brithunter · « **Reply #48 on:** March 07, 2010, 11:07:51 PM »

dougw47 now that rifle you showed look an awful lot like a Parker-Hale Model 1000

Hmmm I don't have a photo of the same side but this is a P-H Model 1000 in .243:-

They look awfully similar don't they?

WL44 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 08, 2010, 09:01:35 PM »

Brithunter, you been shooting in the house again!?

Brithunter · « **Reply #50 on:** March 09, 2010, 04:11:35 AM »

Errrr not quite sure what you mean

.

The rifle is one I had on approval and returned as it had issues I wa snot happy about like the bolt handle beign brazed through the middle.

If you me the perforated card behine the seat ................. Ahhhh that's a Birchwood Casey Deer target I used for archery. I brought a re-curve last year and got back into archery again after 3 decades.

AtlLaw · « **Reply #51 on:** March 09, 2010, 07:54:38 AM »

Quote from: Brithunter on March 09, 2010, 04:11:35 AM

If you me the perforated card behine the seat ................. Ahhhh that's a Birchwood Casey Deer target I used for archery.

Well there you have it WL44!

Hwe been shooting his BOW in the house again!

Swampman · « **Reply #52 on:** March 09, 2010, 08:15:17 AM »

My old house had some nice dings in the den baseboards from indoor archery.

WL44 · « **Reply #53 on:** March 09, 2010, 07:13:00 PM »

There was a post on a forum (don't recall where) of a guy who had a range st up at his house out to 600 yards I think. He had a jeep just for the purpose of driving to the target! As I recall he slid the doos of a shed open and shot from inside and had the chrony set up permanently. I was very jealous. Obviously he lived out in the country somewhere.

always good to be able to get to the hobby at home... be it gun or bow...

warners · « **Reply #54 on:** April 28, 2010, 10:05:46 AM »

Hello all. I just bought a rifle (at auction) that I believe has a Mark X action in it. It's an H&R Model 340 that was made between 1982-1984 and is chambered for 30-06. It was sold as being in "unfired" condition with papers. I won't be able to pick it up until later this week or this Saturday (IL waiting period stuff). With the buyer's premium, my out the door price on it was $510.....more than I wanted to pay but it's really a nice looking rifle and I kinda' wanted to have it.

Here is a photo of it....let me know what you guys think:

Thanks in advance,

Warner

thetrio · « **Reply #55 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:32:59 AM »

I bought a 25-06 Interarms Mark X barreled action a long time ago (20 years?).

It had very nice blueing and a smooth action. The gun was / is a very good shooter. Sold it to a hunting buddy a couple of years back because he wanted it so bad. At 100 yards it would put all of the bullets in .25 inch group.

I would not hesitate to use another one to build a "gun".

I have a custom 35 whelen AI as replacement so don't feel under gunned.

dickttx · « **Reply #56 on:** June 12, 2010, 03:08:39 PM »

Just found this site also.
I bought an Interarms Mark X in 22-250 about 1970. Stocked it with a nice piece of fiddleback maple from Herters. Stained it red with a water based stain made for blackpowder rifles. It turned out very pretty. The problem is that I stocked it for my 10 year old son.
I would like to use the action now but have not been able to find a suitable stock. Ordered a RamLine from Midway that was supposed to be for all Interarms Mark X except 222/223 etc.
When I received it my action screws from c/c were 7 1/2 inches and the stock was 7 3/4.
Am I going to have the same problem trying to find a wooden drop-in stock?
Any suggestions.

Mikey · « **Reply #57 on:** June 13, 2010, 02:22:30 AM »

dick: Welcome Aboard. I hope you don't have any problems with finding the right stock for that rifle but I believe the Interarms actions are the same length as the Yugo M48/M48A, which is about 1/4" less than the standard 98 Mauser; you may wish to try that.

Also, I'm wondering how much you cut the stock back for your son and whether you might be able to add spacers or recoil pads to get the stock back to length for you?? Just a thought..... HTH.

mannyrock · « **Reply #58 on:** June 17, 2010, 08:08:37 AM »

Mikey,

You are correct. The Interarms Mark X actions are about 1/4 inch shorter than the regular 98 mauser actions. So, you don't have the same wide selection of aftermarket stocks that you do with the standard action. Bell & Carlson use to make one for the Mark X, as well as HS Precision, but I haven't looked at them lately.

As far as getting a finished or semi-finished wooden stock for the Mark X, I am not sure who offers them. The factory stocks (that people discard for custom stocks), are generally not very attractive and generally not of a very high quality of walnut, particularly those made in the 1970s.

Best Regards,

Mannyrock

mauser98us · « **Reply #59 on:** June 17, 2010, 03:01:00 PM »

I have been a big proponent of the mark ten series,buying my first new one in 1976. The only thing I don't care for is the bolt handle. I the twenty or so I have owned, I have had my smith put one a model 70 style handle on each one of them. Sure improves the workability of the bolt.The only ones I have had that are different are the Whitworth models in the bigger caliber that I had fitted with a H&H or Rigby type of handle.