Why? I sat there in the shop and it finally dawned on me, something taught to me by the old Mexican blacksmith & welder in a Los Angeles rail shop decades ago. The rifling in this area for about 2 inches was more heavily fouled with copper than the whole rest of the 29" long barrel. One of the secondary discoveries isn't evident in these photos but involved an excess of copper fouling in the bore an inch or so in front of the chamber.
They were never intended to chamber and fire. These conversions were done as an expedient means of utilizing existing rifle inventories in a country short of pesos intended for 2nd line use. Many newbies refer to Samco Global's White Laboratory ~paper~ on the strength and safety of the general topic.
Over the years these photos have provoked a lot of discussion on the issue of 7.62x51 Nato in 18 Mauser actions. Apparently nobody had made this discovery yet as there was nothing anywhere on the web or in any Mauser book about this. Imagine my surprise when this is what I found. 062" thick cutter with side clearance teeth and sliced this puppy open. Having a vertical milling machine at home makes jobs like this fun so I clamped it up in the mill and took a thin 3" x. So, I removed the barrel and sure enough there was a silver ring around the chamber. Looking into the chamber one day I noticed this sliver ring at the end of the barrel and wondered what it be. Both were rather ratty but I wanted them for shop projects as mock up models and the like. I had purchased two of these 1895 Mausers from Century in one of their pallet sales for $65 each. No less than John Wall, Mauser collector & researcher supreme routinely refer to this page. What has brought this page so much attention with Mauser collectors is the cut-a-way of the chamber showing the soldered insert. It concerns the 1895 Chilean Mauser conversions to 7.62x51 Nato. This page at my Swedish Mauser website gets a very high visitor count consistantly.
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