



I don't have a strong preference for caliber, although I would probably prefer to skip the. I have not found any information about the suitability of the other rounds. Of course my current magazine was not feeding that great anyway with the original rounds, but I am not sure how much frustration I am setting myself up for. However, I have heard some reports that the 6.5x55 has potential minor feeding issues in this particular gun/magazine system for some reason and may need feed rail tweaks. I think the 6.5x55 would be a pretty cool and interesting round, and has a pretty good reputation for accuracy. 250 Savage available and recommended for small ring Mausers. I think it would be straight forward to find a barrel for this gun unless I'm missing something? Most commonly I have seen 6.5x55, 7x57, and. I believe the barrel is probably shot out so I have been thinking about getting a replacement small ring Mauser barrel and re-chambering the gun to a more common round. The bullets are actually tumbling and often hitting sideways at only 25 yards. It'd be a great, lightweight field gun for me now except after trying to finally sight it in I realized the bore appears to be completely trashed (now understanding the low price). I picked it up for really cheap off the misc rack at the LGS, for reasons which have now become apparent. I have an old 1891 Argentine Mauser that was tastefully bubba'd at some point in it's life (probably in the '50-'60s).
