Okay It's here What do I do now?

[Guinny_Ire]

LOL. I've never gotten a rifle where the bolt wasn't in it. What does GEW/?? mean? I'm kidding. It's a M38 1941 (I'm going from memory it's back taped in the box) Blueing (or black it pretty complete) stock is as rough as can be, cleaning rod appears either to be new. The stock has a couple of dings and minor splits in the wood where the hardware went. The stock is stamped at the , oh what's it called, where you grip it with your trigger hand, and appears to be some turkish dealie. It definately looks like it came from Turkey. I'll get my bro to photograph it with his digital. A definate work in progress. Now back to my question:

How do I insert the bolt and put this ugly sister together?

[REDSTAR]

Notice on the left side, rear of the receiver, there is a hinged spring loaded lever. You open the lever by pulling it outward from the front, the hinge is in the back. This disengages the bolt stop. Line up the lugs on the bolt to the slot in the back of the action, (the bolt handle should be sticking almost straight up at about 90 degrees to the rifle) and push forward while holding the lever open. I can't remember if the mag follower on the Turks stops the bolt, I think not. But if it does, push down on the mag follower to clear the way for the bolt to go all the way forward.

This assumes the safety hasn't been engaged. The little wing flap on the very back of the bolt should be facing left, directly opposite of the handle facing right.

You have to open that bolt stop/ejector lever to remove the bolt as well.

Piece of cake as long as I wrote this correctly :)

[Schuetzenman]

BTW the thing Redstar is telling you about is the ejector for the rifle as well. Usually to put the bolt in you just shove the bolt into the action. Lifiting the bolt stop release usually isn't required. If your rifle doesn't eject a fired round then the spring that runs the ejector is probably broken. I've had that in newly purchased Turks.

[Guinny_Ire]

Thanks guys. I really do appreciate the responses and the posts you guys put up here. IMO it needs some lovin care but not an awful lot. I thought some of the posts I'd read about the grittiness of the stocks were maybe over done. Not anymore. These things must have been issued with sandpaper and oil for the soldier to finish the job. I bought 10 of those bandoliers and plan on going shooting in about two weeks. I'm going to get a field gauge (the bolt has a German D on the underside of it) just to make sure and we'll have to put a bad on it or two and pull the trigger with a string. I'm going to warn you and the rest of the BB I probably have more numnut questions coming but I'll try and search for the answers. Thanks again and have a great weekend

[REDSTAR]

Questions are cool, it keeps everybody on their toes. I haven't messed with a Mauser for awhile.

I think these stocks are replacement stocks and they wearn't finished completely. I have a couple with brand new stocks but they are very dry and rough.

[Guinny_Ire]

Had a chance to look at it last night; Bolt is little wobbly when extended back but shuts tight; Need to get some 8mm gauges from Brownell's; the cleaning rod will not come out. Is the cleaning rod screwed in like the Argentine Mauser I played with as a kid and what suggestions do you have on getting it out? I've been searching but haven't found a thread on it. Rod isn't a 4 letter word (search function). From what I've read here and at Parallux, it appears my stock is leaching sap. Did anyone else deal with this problem? I'm not a wood expert. Thanks

[REDSTAR]

I'd use fine 0000 steel wool and lemon oil on the stock to wipe off the sap and smooth it out, or just a lemon oil soaked rag will work.

The rod is screwed in, take a punch or something thin to give you some leverage and stick it through the slot on the handle- while you unscrew and pull up every so often to see if it's unscrewed.

[Guinny_Ire]

Thanks. I was thinking that was the answer but when it gets to cleaning rod's I get nervous as I destroyed one (when I was 17) using it to clear an obstruction (barrel had been plugged but I didn't know) using a hammer. Matching serial on an Argentine. I still beat myself up on that and that was 18 or so years ago.

Sidenote: I'm going to use this Turk to get my wife use to a rifle laying around the house.

[Schuetzenman]

Originally posted by REDSTAR
The rod is screwed in, take a punch or something thin to give you some leverage and stick it through the slot on the handle- while you unscrew and pull up every so often to see if it's unscrewed.

I use a flat bladed screw driver to slip in the slot. It is a right hand thread so you unscrew it counter clocwise.

[Guinny_Ire]

Went out and picked up some lemon oil and rubbed it down with a rag. Wood has an orange hue to it. I noticed it before I rubbed it with the lemon oil and it really came out with the oil. Got the cleaning rod out, 0000'd it, wiped it with gun oil and put it back in for now. Also took the bolt apart right to the point where you use the doohicky hole we were talking about on the other thread. Didn't take it further as I was not sitting at a table and didn't want to be searching thru the couch for any parts that were there a second ago.