Mauser Floor Plate Release Button

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Mauser floor plate release button.

Eastern ks i have made mauser springfield floor plate release buttons out of a chunk of 1 4. I do not want to damage anything. It s very grubby and gooey and needs a detail scrub. I purchased a brownells extended floorplate release for my mauser but i cannot remove the original military floorplate release.

You can see the swedish crown on the front of the trigger guard. Mauser 98 93 96 fitting lever release floorplate kit oberndorf trigger guard. Fits mauser models 93 94 95 96 and 98. Mauser floorplate 4 milled steel m98 floor plate model 1898.

Swedish mauser model 96 small ring mauser button trigger guard with custom floor plate this is an excellent condition swedish mauser small ring trigger guard. It s really just a winter project but i do hope to get it safe enough to shoot. Here is one from brownell s. Replace the internal catch for a quicker release of the floorplate.

By removing enough of the safety finger tab to make the lever lie flat against the floor plate and then shortening the shank milling the flats you could have a release lever. Hoosier gun works dealing in mauser parts 100 000 gun parts 1200 gun stocks 4000 magazines 150 barrels. Just use the old gi one for a pattern and cut it off longer so it sticks out of the hole far enough to push it. All you need is a drill a file and some touch up bluing.

I picked up a spanish m1916 mauser today. Maybe 5 16 bolt shank or cold rolled steel stock. I tried to tap out the retaining pin which appears to hold the original release in place but it would not budge. 10 mauser rifle carbine front sight blades fit most models gew98 98k others.

I pulled out my mauser parts box and grabbed a floor plate and a safety lever. Among those are the m1903 springfield winchester model 70 m1917 enfield savage model 110 remington model 700 and the ruger model 77. It came from the infamous samco auction and is listed on their auction inventory. The standard mauser floor plate is hinged.

Welcome to my auction. Sure enough the shank of the safety is a perfect fit for the release button hole in the floor plate. I tried using pb blaster to aid in freeing up the pin but it did not help. If so there are several kits on the market.

After some research i noticed almost all have a floorplate release that is a push button. I couldn t find any oviedo id or date markings. To this day after over one hundred twenty years the mauser rifle is still one of the world s most popular bolt action. On the button and on the floor plate just above the wolf s head on the floor plate.