I can understand drilling a receiver side for scope mounts.

I can understand drilling a receiver side for a receiver sight.

But did you have to do all three? Sheesh.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=468091673

Although, I suppose, once the rifle was rechambered, it was somewhat 'ruined' anyway. It was a beautiful rifle.

I admit to being confused. I'm thinking the gun was built as a 8mm-06, although the caliber stamping is of poor quality. A .366" 9.3 certainly couldn't have been re-chambered to .338, and the photos don't show an obvious re-lining.

Somebody sure did like to bugger up screw heads.

It kind of looks to me like the rifle was probably brought to the US by a soldier, returning home from WWII. After the war, lots of Mausers were "converted" to 8mm/06 because 8mm ammo and cases were practically nonexistent in this country. I wonder which bore diameter this one has, "J" or "S". This rifle appears to have been "bubba'd" by the addition of what appears to be a Redfield mount. It sticks out like plastic mudflaps on a Duesenberg. I wonder what happened to the original side mount. The extra holes do serve the purpose of lightening a normally heavy rifle. I couldn't get all the gentlemans pictures to load, but I saw enough. It was a grand rifle in its day!

Pretty sure Otto Bock would have gone to the 8x60 had he wanted that level of performance. I would further assume the rechamber was done by "Norton"...the stamping is entirely different from the rest of the rifle.

neat old rifle, but one that's been worked and then reworked on again several times.

And the seller's remarks are the usual hype.

If it had been in original condition, it'd be a neat rifle to play around with, but from the late 40s on, guns were....guns. Multiple Springfields, Mausers, Arisakas were all simply base stock for sporterizing and any bring backs were not considered in much higher esteem. No one had any idea about 'collector value' in the 21st century.

Pretty common style and every one of them was a giant question mark as well. What people call a "Guild gun"?

I found the remains of an identically worded ad on Armslist. Armslist pulled the ad and flagged it as fraudulent. I would have to agree. It may have been a Bock rfile when it left the factory in the 1920s, but that's all in its past now. I see the seller didn't relist it on GB.