Mauser .308 M18

Description

SYNTHETIC STOCK
SCREW CUT BARREL Mod size is 15x1

The M18’s barrel is 24 inches long, measures 0.65 inch at the muzzle, and has a nice target crown. The three-position safety allows the rifle to be carried with the bolt locked but unloaded with the safety engaged. The bolt is 0.8 inch in diameter, and it is precisely fitted into the receiver (it moves back and forth without any play or wobble). The boltface has a sliding-plate-type extractor and twin plunger ejectors. The bolt release is positioned at the left rear of the receiver.

An important feature of the stock of any rifle with a free-floated barrel is the stiffness of the fore-end, and Mauser obviously did its homework on this point. If you can squeeze a rifle’s fore-end tip—either wood or synthetic—enough to make the stock touch the barrel, it is probable that upon firing, the barrel will touch the stock. In other words, it isn’t “free-floating” then, and accuracy will suffer.