Picked this up yesterday and spent a couple of hours reading about the rifles from his shop, and determining that this one was made there.

Finding an old MP post on another forum led me to the stockmaker information under the buttplate.

Cloudy and snowing, so pictures aren't very good. (It was 73* yesterday.....)

'Paul Jaeger Jenkinstown, PA' is on the barrel, but the pic was of center, so I'll have to get another.

By swapping the screws on the buttplate, I was able to time them correctly.
Tang screws also, with just a bit more torque.
Grip cap screw was a no-go. It is as tight as it will go, and turning it back leaves the cap loose. Will need to put some dental floss under the head of the screw.



Action, stock and barrel are 'numbers matching'.







Jaeger trigger.

That's about as nice a rifle as you'll find anywhere. It's just right.

There's one more thing it needs, though. That's to go out this coming Monday into the deer woods and do what it was built to do.

Mike,

Here's a Paul Jaeger Mauser a friend has, I imagine from the same time period. Might come up for sale soon, he buys and sells all the time, may have to do it....

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=164420

Beautiful. What Dave in Maine said.

I won this on gunbroker awhile ago and just picked it up today from my dealer.

Jaeger 1903

It isn't quite and fancy as the one on this thread, but I like it. Under the butt plate is FRV 48 10.

I've got an old catalog, one passage intrigues me, they wrote

"We specialize in remodeling Springfield, Enfield, Mauser
and Krag Military Rifles into high grade sporters. If the original barrel is to be used, it is carefully headspaced and proof fired.
Any doubtful actions are Rockwell hardness tested. A good number of rifles sold through the D.C.M. are not serviceable."


Is anyone familiar with how they were testing and drawing conclusions?

PhysDoc,
They said they checked headspace, it may be some DCM 03s/03A3s closed on a No Go gauge. The No Go gauge is .006" longer than the Go. If a bolt wouldn't close on a "Field", it was considered "safe" by the Government. Since the Field gauge was .010" longer than the Go, some DCM rifles likely closed on the No Go, but not on the Field, so were kept in stock and latter issued through DCM. AS always, I might be wrong.
Mike

That I understand, but I was curious about this statement



"Any doubtful actions are Rockwell hardness tested. A good number of rifles sold through the D.C.M. are not serviceable."

PhysDoc,
I don't know then, unless they were referring to "Low Numbered" rifles, I do know some DCM rifles were Low Numbered.
Mike

I was thinking along these lines too.

A friend was asking whether I knew whose initials FRV stood for. It took a while to find the information, and I thought I would post the link here.

Petrov Jaeger article

I had the pleasure of growing up near Paul Jaeger's shop in Jenkintown and spent a fair amount of time there in the last few years before the store closed. I still have a spotting scope I purchased at the going out of business sale, a Ruger Security Six my (now ex-) wife purchased for me there as a 30th birthday present and a Bernardelli Gamecock 20 gauge I received as a law school graduation gift that was purchased there.

The upstairs, where most of the truly high grade rifles resided, was a tutorial in fine gun making. I still regret not purchasing the 6.5x57R break action single shot I looked at on multiple occasions. At the time, I just didn't have the resources.