big boy legos, need some pointers.

tahunua001 · May 1, 2012, 12:19 AM

hello all.
I have been invited to a friends house to do a little playing around in the basement. her husband used to own a gun store but now the only remnants are a room full of ammo and a huge stack of milsurp rifle parts. I know for a fact that there is a number of mosin nagant parts and my little brother managed to fully assemble an enfield no4 from the pieces and has been using it to hunt with for the last year so I am hoping to gather enough parts to make as many working rifles as possible, however I do have one major concern.

my brother claims that he saw a few mauser bolts laying around so I'm hoping that I can assemble a full K98 but one thing I've noticed is that the bolts from k98s also look similar to those from 1903s, 1917s and P14s so my major question is how do I tell the difference between these 4 similar, yet majorly different bolts when they are lying in a huge stack of mixed parts?

oldcars · May 3, 2012, 10:32 PM

The 1917's and 14's have a "dog-leg" shaped bolt handle,and the Springfield has a kind of triangle shaped third(rear) locking lug where a Mauser 98 has a square shaped one. A small ring Mauser has no rear locking lug at all. There are many more differences but these are easy to explain! Beware there are a couple different legnths of bolts depending on what model and where it was produced.

May 1, 2012, 12:19 AM	#1
tahunua001 Senior Member Join Date: July 21, 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 7,839	big boy legos, need some pointers. hello all. I have been invited to a friends house to do a little playing around in the basement. her husband used to own a gun store but now the only remnants are a room full of ammo and a huge stack of milsurp rifle parts. I know for a fact that there is a number of mosin nagant parts and my little brother managed to fully assemble an enfield no4 from the pieces and has been using it to hunt with for the last year so I am hoping to gather enough parts to make as many working rifles as possible, however I do have one major concern. my brother claims that he saw a few mauser bolts laying around so I'm hoping that I can assemble a full K98 but one thing I've noticed is that the bolts from k98s also look similar to those from 1903s, 1917s and P14s so my major question is how do I tell the difference between these 4 similar, yet majorly different bolts when they are lying in a huge stack of mixed parts? __________________ ignore my complete lack of capitalization. I still have no problem correcting your grammar. I never said half the stuff people said I did-Albert Einstein You can't believe everything you read on the internet-Benjamin Franklin

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May 3, 2012, 10:32 PM	#2
oldcars Senior Member Join Date: March 13, 2007 Posts: 375	The 1917's and 14's have a "dog-leg" shaped bolt handle,and the Springfield has a kind of triangle shaped third(rear) locking lug where a Mauser 98 has a square shaped one. A small ring Mauser has no rear locking lug at all. There are many more differences but these are easy to explain! Beware there are a couple different legnths of bolts depending on what model and where it was produced.