The Turkish mauser with the small ring receiver was threaded only to accept the smaller barrel shank. But they installed 8mm barrels that had the smaller barrel shank to fit the turkish small ring reciever. You mentioned that they converted alot of 7mm rifles to the more popular 8mm at the time. But if you want to build a custom mauser into a higher pressure cartridge, then you need a large ring reciever, and most all the Turkish mauser's are just small ring reievers. In fact my last custom mauser I built just last fall was with a turkish mauser and I built it into a custom. You can use the turkish mauser reciever, but as stated they are of the small ring and you have to stay with the lower pressure cartridges, such as the. I pesonnly Have built a dozen custom mausers in the past and i always used the these recievers as they were large ring which allowed the custom build of a wide variety of calibers. That is why it has always been the germanĩ8 mauser, the Czech, and yugoslavian mauser recievers that most all gunsmiths (including me) sought out to build custom bolt action rifles as they were manufactured with the large ring. Probably at least 90% if not more, of all the turkish 8mm mausers were manufactured with small ring recievers.
I hope this has helped you some in answer to your questions.I thought only the 7mm's were small ring and the 8mm's were large? I know that a lot of the 7mms were converted to accept the more common 8mm at the time and the front of the receiver was cut out a bit to let the bullet fit? So this is just one of the contributing factors that has made the turkish mauser value very low and not sought after for building custom rifles. As opposed to a true German made or Czech, or Yugoslavian made mausers, they were large ring recievers and you could convert then to a wide range of different calibers. Which limits converting the reciever to accept only lower pressure cartridges when converting to a different caliber. One of the contributing factors on the turkish mausers is that they were manufactured with small ring recievers. given the condition yours is in, maybe around $100 to $125 tops, and even that depends on the bore condition of the barrel. As a value for resale, you can expect anywhere from $100 on up to $150 at the very highest. And since yours has a german barrel it shows that this at one time was a rebuild by someone else. If your mauser was complete matching numbered it might bring a few extra dollars, but not much. Mauser54 wrote:As ageneral rule, Turkish mausers don't have much resale value. I hope this has helped you some in answer to your questions.
As ageneral rule, Turkish mausers don't have much resale value.