Interarms mark x

[Sponge]

When I was doing a little looking around, it seams like GRS makes stocks to fit the large ring Mauser. I assume it would be a drop in fit. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

I’m really wondering if it worth slowly building out the mark x with a stock, better trigger, and a new barrel at some point, or just start over with a tikka.

May need some inletting, but should be pretty close.

I have a 30-06 Mark X, I like a lot of things about it, and I will probably build on it someday...between the two I would do Tikka if I wanted hassle free and a wider selection of 'definately gonna fit and work' aftermarket stuff, stocks especially.

 

[Old3Toe]

It's my first choice, number 1, go-to big game rifle. Period. Possibly my most accurate and certainly the best looking rifle in my safe.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

I'm still fighting what seems to be bedding issues on mine. Gave up on the butler creek Tupperware, and have a Hogue pillar bedded one coming. Not wasting any more ammo till the transplant. Super frustrating, TBH.

The GRS is a 3lb stock if I am not mistaken. The gun is already 9lbs, which is heavier than I like, not keen to add another full lb to it.

 

[Old3Toe]

Nah, what ya need is some figured walnut and pillar bed that... fur heaven's sake you rebarreled to 7x57. Keep it classy! (I did).

 

[Cjbecker]

Nah, what ya need is some figured walnut and pillar bed that... fur heaven's sake you rebarreled to 7x57. Keep it classy! (I did).

Not too worry. I also have a Santa Barbra 30-06 by Parker hale, with a nice straight grain walnut, and has a nice glass bedding Job. It started life as a safari model but I skimmed down the stock into more of a hunter style. It now has an oil finish.

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Nah, what ya need is some figured walnut and pillar bed that... fur heaven's sake you rebarreled to 7x57. Keep it classy! (I did).

Can you legit get enough glass and pillars in a wood stock to not wander zero in nasty weather? If so, is love a nice wood stock for it!

 

[Old3Toe]

Can you legit get enough glass and pillars in a wood stock to not wander zero in nasty weather? If so, is love a nice wood stock for it!

Yes you can... provided the wood is stable and is cut straight to the grain to begin with. Indeed mine is a 20" full stock, pillar bedded, and fully free floated over 10 years ago. I do hunt it in bad weather, and, it's still fully free floated yet today. What ya cannot do is neglect a wood stock either before, during, or after the hunt.

Ps. A 7x57 too!

 

[NorthIdahoDude]

Yes you can... provided the wood is stable and is cut straight to the grain to begin with. Indeed mine is a 20" full stock, pillar bedded, and fully free floated over 10 years ago. I do hunt it in bad weather, and, it's still fully free floated yet today. What ya cannot do is neglect a wood stock either before, during, or after the hunt.

Ps. A 7x57 too!

Damn, that's purty!!!

7x57 is my absolute favorite cartridge, ever. With modern powders and bullets, it has more reach than a 30-06, less recoil than a 308, can huck higher BC bullets than a 6.5, fit without any OAL issues in any long(ish) action ever made, and with the long-ish length (compared to 308/Creedmoor/etc) and that body taper, it just flat feeds like greased butter. You don't realize how rough 308 and 30-06 feeds in a Mauser action until you run a few 7x57 rounds in the same gun. It also happens to fit 5 rounds in the blind flat bottomed mag + one in the chamber in my Mark X thanks to that body taper, where 308/30-06/etc are only 4 rounds in the mag (as if I've ever had to send more than 3 while hunting, but still... more on tap vs less, I'll take more every time).

I have two 7x57s now - a Tikka in 7x57 (Shilen barrel) that will drill 175 or 162 ELD-X's into sub-1 inch hole for as many rounds as I care to send on any given day, and now the Mark X with the Benchmark cut-rifled on it that I'm working out bedding kinks on, but so far looks like it will probably hang with the Tikka once I get it sorted to stop the first-round-flier and zero-wanders-a-bit-between-groups issues (both of which I'm convinced are bedding related).

I'm also aware that for about $400 and change, Shilen will spin me out an Alternut (semi-Remage) barrel in OEM sporter contour for my Rem 700 in 7x57... and I've got $400, and I love my other Shilen barrel, sooooo.... one of these days, that's super-likely to happen.

 

[Old3Toe]

"Birds of a feather", right?

 

[slm9s]

I have a 375Wby on an Interarms Whitworth. Reliable accurate rifle.

postimages upload from desktop