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Hello everyone. This is my first posting. Thanks in advance for the help or interest. I am rebuilding a Mauser. It has an excellent barrel but the action is pretty rough, has some pitting and needs to be re-blued. Before I separate the two is there anything I should do, or be concerned with? Once separated I plan to clean up the action and rust blue it, then put it back together with the barrel.

Before removing the barrel I plan to use a punch to make a mark on each so I can tighten the barrel to the exact same position. The barrel has iron sights so it needs to return to the same location.

Lastly, I know the action and barrel are not a matched set. The barrel is from a JC Higgens rifle and the action is a Waffenfabrik Oberdorf military style, year unknown. My goal is to make an attractive and accurate hunter. Precision is necessary, but not at any cost. I don't think additional machining of the barrel or action is necessary but am I missing something here I might regret later?

Thanks again.