A few months ago I picked up a little known Mauser SBT gun as a late winter project. These guns were a joint venture between Mauser and Gamba in Italy and were marketed in the US from 1969-73 by the Mauser Bauer Corp of Warren, Michigan. This one was proofed in 1969. Her barrel is 32" made of Bohler steel and with .042" choke. I'm not a regular Trap shooter but I like to shoot tightly choked SBT guns for sporting clays practice.
This gun was sidelined a long time ago when a shooter fell with it and cracked the stock through the web of its head. The stock was split from its head back to about 2" aft of the right wrist checker panel. It was crudely glued back together and I knew that when I bought the Mauser.
I was able to get the stock back apart and blew Brownell Acraglas into the entire length of the crack using my air compressor nozzle. Clamped it back together to set and then used 3/32" Brownell threaded stock repair pins also set in Acraglas to reinforce the split from ever coming apart and propagating. The pins are just short of going completely through the stock. Afterwards the bronze pins were milled slightly below the surface and I spot finished over them. You'll see the pins on the right side of the stock in these pics. Some day I'll do a tiny counterbore over each pin, cover with a flush walnut plug and then spot refinish again.
So I tested her today at Rock Mountain Sporting Clays with a variety of factory loads including heavy recoil 1-1/4 ounce "High Brass" shells. Everything works perfectly and she did 75 ex 80 before the rain started again. She comes up nice. Happy day!
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Mauser SBT gun
Threaded Mode