My M48 and Mosin PU Sniper Clone

I did the work on both.

Yugo M48
Refinished Stock
Yugo Sniper Bolt Handle Modification
Corked Barrel
Glass Bedded Action
Timney 3#
Lapped Barrel
Polished Chamber and Tuned Extractor
Polished Feed Ramp/Chamfered Throat
ZRAK/Mauser Q.R. Mount/Rings


Russian Laminated 91/30 converted to PU Sniper
PU Scope and Mount
Bent Bolt Handle
Dyed and Refinished Stock
Polished Feed Ramp/Chamfered Throat
Corked Barrel
Glass Bedded Action
Huber Trigger 3.5#
Lapped Barrel
Recrowned Barrel
Polished Chamber and Tuned Extractor


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Absolutely brilliant job!

Wowza!

Damn those look nice.

You did some nice work, Clandestine.

Both those are shore purty!!

They both look awesome.
But i am partial to the Mauser. :small_gri

How did you align, and drill/tap for the scope mounts, did you use a jig?
And how did you get those bolts bent?
Absolutely beautiful work by the way.

How did you align, and drill/tap for the scope mounts, did you use a jig?
And how did you get those bolts bent?
Absolutely beautiful work by the way.


Thnaks so much for the compliments. You are very kind.

For the M48:

I did bend the bolt slightly. I used a MAP torch and a bolt bending block with a vise. Just heated to cherry red and bent it down about 1/2" with a set of pliers. I didnt want to bend it too far or have to inlet the stock. I was trying to keep the look as close to the M48 Snipers. The M48 snipers had a ground face so I decided to grind it down too. I was happy with the results.

Yup, I used a jig and drill press. The mounts use standard weaver hole spacing for mauser mounts.

The ZRAK mounts I have on it are expensive, I paid $165 dollars for them. I still want to put a ZRAK scope on it but they are pricey, ill have to wait a little longer.

The Mosin:

I sed the same jig but sat the action sideways. It was the most diffucult drill job I have done. I had to mill slight flats on the side of the receiver before drilling because the angles were causing the drill bit to deflect. Once I milled a tiny flat everything went smooth.

The bolt on that I just cut off and welded on a piece they sell in brownells for extending bolt handles. I ground down the welds on the shaft, heated the shaft with a MAP torch and bent it. Iused the mauser blocks to help keep the heat away from the bolt body but they didnt fit right.

Thanks so much for the compliments everyone. You are all far too kind.

When say "corked barrel" is that the same as "counter boring"? that is what it looks like to me, but I am still a little new to these things :wink_smal How did you accomplish this?

When say "corked barrel" is that the same as "counter boring"? that is what it looks like to me, but I am still a little new to these things :wink_smal How did you accomplish this?


Thank you for the compliments :)

The corking is an old method used to give the barrel full contact thru the barrel channel and handguards. Its the oppisite or free floating. Its comon to find pieces of cardboard, cloth and cigarette packs in the barrel channels of old rifles.

Heres a great article on the subject: http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu63.htm

The end of the barrel has a steep crown job. Many of the old mosins were roughly maintained. The term counter boring refers to drilling a portion of the worn rifling away while keeping the barrel length. Mine had not been counter bored and just had some bad crown (End of barrel) damage. Instead of doing a shallow 11 degree target crown I put a 30 degree crown on it. Just recrowning the barrel yeilded a 25% group reduction.

If any of this didnt make sense please let me know, ill try to do a better job of explaining. :)

Chad

please tell me that you have slugged the barrels and are casting and reloading for those two FINE Rifles...

they deserve cast projectiles designed to wring the most accuracy possible from those weapons

I sure wish you lived close to me...I'd trade you gunwork for cast bullets in a heartbeat :cool_smal

please tell me that you have slugged the barrels and are casting and reloading for those two FINE Rifles...

they deserve cast projectiles designed to wring the most accuracy possible from those weapons

I sure wish you lived close to me...I'd trade you gunwork for cast bullets in a heartbeat :cool_smal

Unfortunately reloading isnt something I have learned yet. Very sad I know.........

Sadly, I have only fired commercial and surplus ammo thru it. My Mosin likes Privi Heavy Ball best. It can shoot M.O.A. if I do my part with that every time in 3 shots, 5 shots stray into th 1.5" groups. Im certain that it would do twice as good with some custom loads.

The M48 likes Surplus Yugo 8MM (M75????) and does about the same as the Mosin. The Yugo ammo is corossive though, so I dont shoot it as much as the Mosin because I dont like having to break out the Ballistol/Water mix to wash out the corrosive salts.

If you were close I would take you up on that offer. :)

Thank you so much for the kind words about my work.

nice nice rifle

read the corking link - I like it.

The corking link is pretty interesting. I always thought that if you want to improve accuracy you free-float the barrel. Corking would not have occurred to me.

I'm still trying to figger out what you meant by tuning the extractor. I've worked on a few of them, but I never heard the word "tuning".

By the way the Mauser is dead sexy.

The corking link is pretty interesting. I always thought that if you want to improve accuracy you free-float the barrel. Corking would not have occurred to me.

I'm still trying to figger out what you meant by tuning the extractor. I've worked on a few of them, but I never heard the word "tuning".

By the way the Mauser is dead sexy.


Thanks for the compliments.

The Extractor tuning is just a polishing and contouring modification. This tends to allow more positive extraction and smoother chambering of a live round. Nothing necessary just a little tweak. I have also noticed that when you dont have excessive extractor tension that the bolt is less "Sticky".

You appear to be the type of individual who would really benefit from reloading for those 2 rifles

when you can, check out the reloading/casting thread that I started in the Ammo section.

Reloading need not be expensive on a single stage press...hey...I'll even send you some cast boolits when you are ready.

Nothing more satisfying than a group equaling what those rifles were capable of when they left the factory

Your MN sniper came out far prettier than my conversion did.
Oh well, my is more accurate than what I expected and once you crawl under some barbed wire and pound some heads with the stocks, they'll look the same...

Beautiful work Clandestine! I've been wanting to cork my 91/30 sniper convert but have yet to give it a try.

Thanks for the kind words Gentleman. It really appreciated.

:)