This is what's great about cold water. Notice the fin color? The boy & I have kept several 8-12lb fish as we couldn't get things unraveled quick enough before the fins turned red. Our fish fries on New Years Eve were totally pike--bleed gills, get in ice...I've drank many a beer from bloody...
And rebluing, removing the front sight and recessing the crown. And and mounting a probably fixed X Leupold with a German #1 reticle, bedding the action and floating. My vision is a beautiful, handy woods rifle. Might even get a pretty bolt knob...
If it turns out there's no historical significance with the bbl, I believe I'd do a 6.5 Swede. Probably nothing will happen other than a proper bolt handle job and a Boyd's walnut I'd finish with TruOil (after applying faux grain patterns to rival a Brit gun.
I'll post up pics when I can. By "knowing" mechanically I know the bolt handle must be cut off and the mag box/spring/feedplate(?) need replacing. It's virtually a single shot. Rounds are only accepted from a squirmy low left side "approach" and only accepting two. Once in place they feed...
Until around '83 Dad had sporterized 98 Mauser 8mm with a beautiful stock complete with an ebony fore end and actual ivory diamonds from a piano Grandma had sent to the burn pile....Anyways it sported a set of Williams peep sights as he told me the bolt couldn't be "bent enough" for a scope. It...
I remember reading this some years back. Do you know the reason? Seems in my armchair mind the Swim Beach and Marina should have excellent spawning habitat or could be optimized, closed to fishing (during walleye spawn) and sold as an educational exhibit with a couple docks and maybe a foot...