Beater .308 Spanish mausers for $210 at LGS- worth a shot?

[Robert Richardson]

I just bought one of these last week. The metal cleaned up nicely and all the ones I saw on the rack had good bores. They are actually 7.62 nato not 308 and from what I read the Spanish just drilled out and rerifled the barrels instead of rebarreling them. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I shot some Austrian m80 through it Sunday and the bolt would lock up after each shot and I really had to whack the bolt to get it open. I'm not sure if it's because the anmo was to hot or if I need to clean the chamber out but it was still a joy to shoot. Worst case I'll just have to buy some low pressure ammo.

Check the headspace and the freebore just to be sure it's good. I had one a few years ago that when chambering a round it would drive the bullet into the lands.