Removing a Mauser barrel...

[tammons]

Day one on removing a Mauser 98 barrel.

Makes a Savage gorilla torqued barrel factory tightened by Og look like kids play - LOL.

[thomae]

Some time ago, I had a Mauser barrel I wanted to remove. Ended up giving up. Gunsmith said that some are epoxied on.

[HotGuns]

If there is the least bit of rust on those threads it might not come off.
Try heat. If you are getting to the point that nothing you do works, then the only way to do it is the cut it in a lathe.
First try cutting a ring around the barrel right at the receiver. Sometimes this will give you enough relief that you can unscrew it.
It that doesn't work, you'll either have to part it off in the lathe or saw it off and bore the remnants out of the receiver.
I've got to where I don't spend more than 15 minutes trying to take one off before it goes to the lathe.

If it is expoxied on, you run a the real danger of trashing out the threads in the receiver trying to twist the barrel out. You sure don't want to do that.

[tammons]

I got it off but I have never heard of barrels epoxied on.

Sprayed it with Kroil for a week, once a day.

Had to change my barrel vise setup.
Ended up bolting it to the concrete floor with some expansion bolts and that helped a lot.
Stout clamp on the barrel and torqued as tight as I could get it.
Confectioners sugar on the barrel and bushing. Used one of those barrel vises off Ebay.
Thats a pretty nicve vice for the money.

Put a 3' cheater bar on the action wrench and gave it a good snappy tug and it broke free.
That was the start of it but I expected once it broke free it would simply turn off by hand but I had to keep it fully clamped
down until it was about half way off then it finally loosened up a little.

After it initially broke it took the same amount of force just to unscrew it to about 1/3 the way off.
About 2 threads for the end I could finally turn it by hand.

Sort of think it had grunge on the threads or the kroil broke up the rust into grunge.

Or maybe some form of Yugo Gunk ??
This is a Yugo 98.

One thing I will say is I am glad I didnt buy the wood barrel block setup from Wheeler. That never would have locked the barrel.
Laid out $80 on the aluminum bushing setup specifically for Mausers and that held the barrel with me tugging on
a 3' long cheater bar 1' up the handle. I think you can buy different alum bushings, like for Remington etc.

Always wanted a Mauser and now I have 3.
Unfortunately like so many other hobbies I get carried away.

Now I want an Enfield #5 jungle Carbine and a Swiss K-31 too - LOL.

[Hotolds442]

Day one on removing a Mauser 98 barrel.
Day two on clamping a barrel really really tight.
Day three on how do I patch a 6" x 6" section of my concrete floor that I literally ripped out of the ground.
Day 4 on how I switched back to Savage rifles because they're soooooo easy........

Glad you got it apart without any damage.

[tammons]

Thats funny.
Patching concrete would be the easy part.
Harder would be when you drill to far past the slab and hit a buried water pipe.