Thread: .22lr Mauser 201

Picked this up off Trade me as the tupper ware vs wood was getting out of balance in my safe.
Interesting little rifle. Front locking with the bolt inside a rotating body.
It had a couple of issues, it was missing the bedding shim from the front of the action which was letting the barrel rub on the rosewood fore end and it wouldn't eject reliably(maybe 30-40% fail) . On the positive side it came with a new MAE stainless suppressor which wasn't advertised in the auction so I was happy over all.
I cut out a new shim and eased the barrel channel a little and set about the ejection issue. The weak link in this little rifle is the solid ejector and as luck would have it I managed to break it with a case that didn't make it out of the action.


Being an older rifle parts are non existent, but it was a rainy sunday afternoon and I had a file and a hacksaw so I rummaged through a few boxes of bits.
A rem trigger that had been horribly two paced started the process


Roughed out , it worked well



A good tidy up and polish, fitted


Maybe more good luck than good management and not quite 100% but now it ejects cleanly as long as I'm positive with bolt manipulation.

Nice weight, not to light, beautifully smooth action, shoots very well with the CCI range.