Probably at least 90% if not more, of all the turkish 8mm mausers were manufactured with small ring recievers. 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. 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. 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. In fact my last custom mauser I built just last fall was with a turkish mauser and I built it into a custom. 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. You mentioned that they converted alot of 7mm rifles to the more popular 8mm at the time. But they installed 8mm barrels that had the smaller barrel shank to fit the turkish small ring reciever.
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