Mauser Floor Plate Release Button

I tried to tap out the retaining pin which appears to hold the original release in place but it would not budge.

Mauser floor plate release button. I pulled out my mauser parts box and grabbed a floor plate and a safety lever. The standard mauser floor plate is hinged. Just use the old gi one for a pattern and cut it off longer so it sticks out of the hole far enough to push it. After some research i noticed almost all have a floorplate release that is a push button.

Mauser 98 german late war stamped marked 4 hole trigger guard g173. Military and commercial mauser parts. Among those are the m1903 springfield winchester model 70 m1917 enfield savage model 110 remington model 700 and the ruger model 77. Mauser 98 93 96 fitting lever release floorplate kit oberndorf trigger guard.

Hoosier gun works dealing in mauser parts 100 000 gun parts 1200 gun stocks 4000 magazines 150 barrels. All you need is a drill a file and some touch up bluing. Eastern ks i have made mauser springfield floor plate release buttons out of a chunk of 1 4. Fits mauser models 93 94 95 96 and 98.

Here is one from brownell s. I picked up a spanish m1916 mauser today. It s really just a winter project but i do hope to get it safe enough to shoot. I couldn t find any oviedo id or date markings.

By removing enough of the safety finger tab to make the lever lie flat against the floor plate and then shortening the shank milling the flats you could have a release lever. You can see the swedish crown on the front of the trigger guard. Welcome to my auction. It came from the infamous samco auction and is listed on their auction inventory.

To this day after over one hundred twenty years the mauser rifle is still one of the world s most popular bolt action. Maybe 5 16 bolt shank or cold rolled steel stock. 10 mauser rifle carbine front sight blades fit most models gew98 98k others. Mauser floorplate 4 milled steel m98 floor plate model 1898.

Perhaps you mean a push button release. I do not want to damage anything. On the button and on the floor plate just above the wolf s head on the floor plate. The mauser rifle design has inspired some of the most popular firearms in the world.

I purchased a brownells extended floorplate release for my mauser but i cannot remove the original military floorplate release. If so there are several kits on the market. Sure enough the shank of the safety is a perfect fit for the release button hole in the floor plate. It s very grubby and gooey and needs a detail scrub.