very few history buffs know this...but WW2 weapons, including the atomic bombs used, could not kill deer post war. People had to take them home, modify them in order to win the war against deer. This left the original ww2 weaponry changed forever. Any weapon still in its original state can be seen un museums under the "times where deer were invincible" section.

I'd rather go hunting with a non-sporterized surplus rifle.

Got a sporterized 1903a3 and brought it back to its old glory. Thankfully the previous owner replaced the rear sight with a mount and didn't drill holes into the receiver. All that needed replacing was the wood, bands and a new front and rear sight. Totally worth it.

Fudds and Bubbas worldwide cried out in pain at the publishing of this video - sensing a disturbance in the force. "What!?", they cried, "M-must rechamber to an obscure wildcat!....Must unnecessarily refinish!....Must d-drill and TAAAAAPPPPP!!!". But, fortunately for milsurps everywhere, one man stood up and simply said "No."

You deserve a sainthood for this.

I remember when you could by a surplus mauser for 99¢

I fell off the mauser cliff at 18 When i started “big game” hunting in the southern USA with a 1895 Chilean 7x57. I killed so many deer with that old “army” gun it was probably illegal (😁) But now in the midlife crisis years I’m still building sporterized Mauser hunting rifles in all the Ackley calibers I can find and if I had it all to do over again I can honestly say I would quadruple my collection It’s been one of the best hobbies I’ve ever taken up Good looking Cz and great job on the oxblue

I bought a Minnelli stock and was super impressed with it, fit like a glove only issue is the bolt take down disc went in too deep, two washers and it’s fixed. It is now on my 1933 standard modell

I am fortunate to have a complete Mauser from the battlefields of Africa that was never sportized. Being such a cool rifle, I got a Mitchell's Mauser surplus that I left orginal but added a scope to hunt with. I also want to add a German camp pattern finish to it as is and maybe figure out how to attach a can with out changing much. Another bonus for me is that it is a fun caliber for reloading.

By 1942, most K98s stocks had the stamped cup butt-plate, and all post war new stocks made in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia had cupped stocks.

I love how your gun turned out. I have an old Mauser with the winter trigger guard myself. For some reason, when it was imported, it came with the crest ground off, although it is obviously a post war gun as well. Otherwise, it is in the original configuration. It shoots great for having such crude sights, and is a neat gun. Mine does not have the take down disks in the stock, but rather the hole in the cupped buttplate that was done as a cost saving measure. I figure that my gun was put together with leftover parts after the war, as a lot of the parts are stampings that were made as cost savings when Germany was being squeezed towards the end of the war. My gun still has some waffenamt stampings as well as some Czech lion markings, so it is a real amalgamation of parts. Thanks for showing.

GOOD WORK!!!!! IV'E RESTORED SEVERAL OLD SPORTERIZED RIFLES BACK TO ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION!!!! PARTS ARE HARD TO FIND AND YOU CAN GET UPSIDE DOWN IN THESE RIFLES FAST!!!!!

can you guys do a video like this on the lee enfield? they're so common and such a good rifle, but they're almost all sporterized.

I took a sporterised dou ,K98k and got an original stock and turned it back to original configuration. It had the original front site so it was easy and looks great.

My grandad bought my dad and uncle a lee enfield each in the late 50s. My dad said they just had wood barrels full of them. They were covered in Cosmoline and sealed in these barrels. The store would pop one open and sell them til empty then pop another open. They had theirs sporterized at the time and now my dad would like the original so I assume you can get all the corresponding parts for a .303.

I cringe when I see a "sporterized" Mauser-type rifle. There's a special place in Hell for fools who desecrate beautiful old weapons.

Great job, Roy!

Excellent video and a great resort action - thank you.

A step in the right direction

"Best I can do is restore it". Thanks Brownell's Rick Harrison!

I see the Retail store strikes again Roy! You underestimate your abilities, I think it was a very nice job!

Great video, thanks.

Thank you for using the proper name Wehrmacht, and not using the “N” word. Awesome video.

well done! thank you

I've been doing this with an old 1943 Long Branch Lee Enfield No.4 Mk1*, and I just thank God the bastards who sporterized it didn't chop down the barrel or scallop the receiver. It's been a huge pain in the ass finding a vintage forearm, and that's what's preventing me from complete restoration. I really don't want to shell out the money for a replica forearm (VERY expensive), but it's looking like that might end up being my only choice aside from buying another Enfield and cannibalizing it for parts. I bought my Enfield for $200 and it's shooting 1 minute groups at 100 yards with my custom handloads, so I've been trying to keep the restoration on the cheap. I've spent about $100 restoring the sights (were totally removed by last owner), and about another $100 on the furniture and other bits and bobs. So about $400 in, so you can see why I'm not looking to spent $300 on a replica hand-crafted forearm. Still hoping to find a vintage one for $40-$120.

Old is gold...

I have done this with a 1903, 1903A3, and a Lee Enfield No4 MK1. Im also in the process of restoring an 1898 Krag as well. But I prefer to put them back into original stocks and not after market ones.

I've done the same on a couple M1917s. The repop stocks are considerably lesser quality, though there's an American firm doing semi-inletted ones of solid walnut that should be nice if you've got the tools. Tracking down some of these parts is an absolute headache though

Needs front sight hood and a cleaning rod. Good looking rifle.

I do not believe that was the location of the takedown washer in the shorter(inlaid) stock, sir. I would like to believe it was the location of the sling slot instead. Good job and respectfully yours.

i did the same thing with my mauser project but also had to do modifications to the stock. i too went with the flat butt plate, if i had gotten the laminated stock i would have needed to install a cupped butt plate. the flat butt plate would have been a quick install but the plate was not as wide as the stock, so i carfully had to reshape the stock using several different hand tools (a rasp, a couple of files and a lot of sand paper). as for the bluing, i couldnt get the the bluing chemical so i had some old cooking oil. i heated all the white metal parts to a certain temp (cant remember what the temperature was) and quenched the metal in the cooking oil. i repeated the process multiple times till i came to the desired result. it was a great project, i deeply regret having sold it.

German did not blue the butt plates! Actually... Winter trigger guards were introduced during WW2...

Hell Yeah bring it back to it's original configuration.

I have a Spanish Mauser that was arsenl converted to 7.62x51... had a broken screw and you folks had the needed replacement

Great job! It would be nice to see new stocks like this appearing for the Swiss K31 as originals tend to suffer from water damage where they were piled up in the snow butt-down.

Looks like a fun project. Nice work, maybe I can do something like that!

You also need the front sight cover as your front sight base has the groove for it. To be correct Chech. rifle

I did this with my mauser I found a sporterized mauser, ended up being a 1940 code 147 Mauser 98 meaning it was made by J.P sauer, anyways after finding a stock online I was into this mauser for $450, great deal in 2020

That came out pretty well. M

Doing the lords work

Stocks are no longer available:( such a shame

Thanks for the Minelli tip! I'm only curious if someone would FINALLY make decent Winchester SXP furniture..

Put on a sight hood it helps line up the target.

My Peruvian Mauser is an FN factory built rifle, chambered in 30-06.

It’s a shame you guys don’t have those stocks anymore

Sporterizing surplus rifles should be considered a crime

I have my father’s bringback k98 its all matching 1940 / 147 , we had a hardware store in eastern Kentucky that sold guns and just about anything I remember going there with my father just to look at all the guns , surplus rifles were in a wooden barrels marked peerless , i think log chains came in them , the Mauser rifles were $10.00 to $ 20.00 , M-1 grands were from $20.00 to $ 50.00 , this was probably somewhere around 1962 or so ,

It reminds me of the motorcycle choppers that's how lots of beutiful America motorcycles were destroyed

I pride myself on saving pawn shop find sporters and rescuing them from Bubba and his hacksaw. Kind of a personal crusade. I totally restore sporters if they have no permanent unreversible changes. So far, I have restored a Brazilian 08/34 Mauser chambered for 30-06 (Brazil made these for expeditionary forces to use American ammo), a 1916 SMLE Mk III* and a 1916 made Eddystone (ERA) Pattern 14 rifle. Edit March 4th 2022: Add a 1939 French MAS 36 to that list. Those milled parts are REALLY hard to find :D

Square wood plate is not where the take down disk was but likely the sling insertion opening...

I like this 👍

Before the 1968 GC Act these Mausers where coming into the states at US$26,95. They were advertises as BRNO and made for the Russian front. They were $3 cheaper than a stock standard Kar-98K

No one ever sells military profile stocks very long- here today gone in a couple months never to be restocked again. Not sure why

I acquired an Awesome WW2 Sporterized Mauser. 45-70 Govt, 4 ft long, 11.4 lbs. Couldn't pass that up

I have an 1891 Argentine Mauser in 7.65x53 that's been sporterized with the barrel cut and crowned down to 24 inches from it's normal 30. I am not sure if its even worth it to try to re-militarize it since the barrel has been chopped. I know a lot of guys had 308 win. barrels put into them when the sporterized them. I was able to get an RCBS brass conversion die for it to make brass from 30-06 or 270 brass. And now PPU makes ammo for it. But the old 1891 actions only have two bolt lugs and are known to be weak, so you have to load conservatively. 150gr. HP or 177gr. SP at 2600 is max. The 1898 and 1909 actions are much stronger with the three lug configuration. It was my grandfathers rifle, but he didn't sporterize it. We think he picked it up at a yard sale to keep the coyotes out of his garden.

Winter trigger guard too

Those arrows look like Springfields “Grip zone”...muzzle forward zone

It's a shame Brownells has discontinued these.

A gun is only original once. A Sporterized rifle is no longer original but has a new history. In many cases, a would be hunter worked on this rifle for many hours in the evening or on days off. The result is a hunting rifle that is a family heirloom. Each one has been customized and are works of art in their own right. If you have an ordinary original that is great, if you are lucky enough to have a one of a kind hand worked spoterized, love it for what it is!

I want to remilierize the 1903 springfield, I hate seeing those sportized

Great information in this video. This is exactly what I want to do. I bought an Ankara Turkish Mauser with a date of 1942 on it and someon fileted it to pieces. I paid $220 for the gun and two, 20 round boxes of Hornady 196 gr. I'm not even sure what it is... an M38 or an 98K? I have no clue and am not sure how to find out. I'd like to get a full surplus stock because as I said this one has been hacked to pieces. The top of the stock is gone, no rings and the bottom has been shortened by at least 6" - 7". Any idea where I could get parts and info on this piece? Thanks! Steve D. U S. Navy, Retired Texas

Hey Roy, thank you for the video, Roy any idea where I can source out parts for my danzid 1916 gwe 98. I need the barrel band, front band and belt. Thank you!

It's a shame, at my local gun shop is a K98 that's a pre-war gun (1938) that is all numbers matching but someone added a receiver sight to it, removed the rear sight and sporterized the stock. Had they left the gun alone and not added the receiver sight, the gun could be brought back fairly easily. I would own the gun as a nice shooter except for the fact they want too much money for it.

All you need now is a front site hood

I have that same rifle that was a sporter.I have remiliterized but woulad love to have a stock set up like what you did on yours.Any feeds on gettinng that set up??tanx.WSG

When I sporterized my G98 I kept all the parts so that if I wanted to I could put it back to I mean close to original... Cut off bent and rewelded the bolt, timly trigger, drilled and taped for Burruis scope base, archangel stock, Leupold VX II 4-12x50mm next I want to buy the Gentry 3 position safety. I'm still thinking about re-barrling for something more available (30-06) but I'm open to suggestions on a caliber if anyone has gone that far with good results. I hunt Whitetail deer, Mule deer, and Elk. I really love hunting with this relic and out shooting my buddy's at the range with all their new toys. It groups really well out to 500 yards shooting Nosler 180gr E-tip ammo, this is the ammo that keeps me from re-barrling because of how good it performs on the range and how amazing of a job it does on the animals I have harvested using it.

Those wood patches in the stock cover the sling slot, that stock would've had a hole in the buttplate for bolt takedown.

For a 1945-1947 made CZ K98 its the wrong buttplate. Most likely they might not have a disassembly disk. In this case, the disassembly disk is too deep in the stock - strange, possily a stock with excessive measures. IÄd need to check it out, but around 1945 there hardly were milled H-styple upper rings. I am currently reading a book about late war produktions of K98ks.......but I am not through yet. But it looks better than before!

Any ideas about a 1903a3 that has a scope mount through the mag cut off? Would need the stock, mag cut off and barrel bands?

Can that work on modern commercial Mausers as in the ones that are sold by Mauser today? Can it work for certain other rifles made that are not Mausers but have similar actions?

Thank you for the video. What is the best way to fill sigh mount holes on the receiver? They are threaded. I've heard of all kinds of ways to do it.

At some point in the future, sporterized milsurp rifles will become collectible.

I would love to see a video on how to reduce the trigger pull on a .308 Mauser. my trigger pull is too high for me. can you make a video about that issue?

I have a sporterized Zastava M48 I'm looking to remilitarize, i have a feeling this will be a headache lol

Hey bud i stopped the video at time stamp 5:22 bvecause i wanted to comment i did the same thing to my Mauser. Although the Mauser im workinfth is a CZ/VZ24 captured from a German soulder by my Grandfather. It was produced and issued in 1926 ,most likely tto the Romanian Army but later sportorized. So im guessing the rifle i have was used by Partixans or maybe Conscripts or was sold by the Czechs to another country in Europe? On the side of the reciever the only markings are "VZ24" and it has a bit of BRNO and a bit more on the top of the reciever. On the side with the serial number ir starts off with an "E" with a small lions head next to it and then "26" the serial number it self is 6336 K1 and is all matching numbers. Although i still have the old stock with the same numbers its in a box with the new/old stock now. It was actually built also in 1926. My best guess is it may have been used by the soulder in what ever country had it ,and when he left the army he took it home and sportorized it. Later it was confiscated by the Nazi's or used by someine fighting the occupation? In any case it ended up back in a Nazi soulders hands and my grandfather captured it. Since the VZ24s before the war were sold to so many different countries, and outside of europe they were chambered in other calibers. In the middle east and parts of Asia and North Africa some were chambered in 7.65X53mm and 7X57mm with those in europe and some sent to South America and Spain were 7.92X57. Some were even in another caliber,which i have not been able ot find yet? Since my Gramps fought from North Africa threw Italy and into Germany this rifle could be one of several calibers?My issue it that they wernt stamped with the calibers on the barrels back then so I tried to put a 7.9 Metah in it but it was tight and the Metah is basically 8mm and a 7mm projectile falls right threw it.....hehe so i dont know for sure if the Metah is just a bit fatter round then the 8mm Mauser which i hope it is! hehe or is it one of the other calibers? I have had issues ina blue state finding a gun shop with a bore guage that can tell me what caliber it actually is? Looking at the prices of guages online i wont be getting oen any time soon? :>/ So i have owned this rifle for some time and could have fired it when it was still sportorized but choose not too. Now thats its back in its Military configuration with a stock made in the same year as the rifle , which makes it as close to what it actually was ,when it came out of the factory and i'm going nuts trying to find a way to chamber a round and shoot it! LOL But safety 1st and i need help or a suggestion so i can get this rifle checked to find out its caliber/chamber? Why didnt they bother to mark the barrels like they do now for caliber ? It just sux for me right now! Once i get this to the range with some rounds ,im going to be in heaven! lol

I'd love to do this to a CZ550 , .375 H&H !!!

I have a bottle of oxpho blue too, but mine kinda dried up

I wish to find a front site hood for my 1915 K-98.

I just recently purchased a sporterized mauser. Has a 1944 date, and an eagle with swastika stamped on the barrel as well. I would love to do this to mine. I just don't know how coste effective it would be vs getting an original

I got myself a sporterised mannlicher m95m and for years I am still looking for the military stock to re-militarise it >_

Dude you forgot the recoil crossbolt in the old stock

This is also known as "De-Bubaizing" a rifle. My Dilemma is how to get the stock disks in without a press??? Can they be glued in with an epoxy? I've got two old K98s with crap-ola stocks I'd like to get new stocks for, but I'm stuck on how to do the stock disks.

I wish someone made laminated reprp stocks

What's the effective range of one with a shortened Barrel

So does Brownells still sell these stocks?

that's not where the takedown disc was. That's where the sling slot was. The takedown disc would have been center back and closer toward the butt. This stock never had the disc looks like. And get that thing a front sight hood. I can see it's cut for it.

Are these stocks still available?

Where can I get the remilitarized stock? I have a Yugoslav with a Brocken stock.

How would you go about reinstalling the military sights? I have a Wehrmacht Mauser that has had diopter sights put on it and I’d like to have it put back to original

My issue was remilitarizing a MAS 36

Lmao in 2019 I asked whether this would be possible/practical on Reddit and I was basically laughed at. Thankfully 98k's (as well as the rest of the market) has seemed to gone back down so I can reasonably purchase one without feeling like I am burning $100 bills.

Are you reading my mind?

Sporterizing these can be a felony

Can I put a bayonet lug on my Dou.45 k98? It doesn’t have one because it was made late war?

I want your sporter stalk. Let me know if you'd like to part with it. Thanks.

What's the purpose of the take down disk?

I don't really get it, i mean even back then where tons of them where on the marked it does not make any sense, i mean the rifle is good as it is and if anyone want to hunt with it they can just drill holes in the gun to fit a scope, i mean it is changing the gun to but not really. Why should i put money into rebuildung a gun wich i can use as it is without having any disadvanteges. Why do i need to rebuild my rifle to look like any other hunting rifle, what is the point of that? You don't need to have another stock, or shorten the barrell wich is not as long or whatever, what is the point of sporterizing a Mauser?

The buttplate isn't supposed to be blued

Do still have the sporterized stock... Do you want to part with it ... I've got a spanish mouser it might fit it ...

* sigh *