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If you want to know the complete history of your Mauser check out Webster's book.
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The only thing I didn't find was correlation between date of manufacture and serial number, which I have just found on "Culver's Shooting Page", on a thread called, as you would expect, "1891 Mauser Serial Numbers". He even details modifications to each model and when and why they were made. It's not cheap, ($63.00 +) but there can't be a more thoroughly researched and profusely illustrated reference anywhere on the planet. Then I recently googled "Argentine Mauser Rifles" to learn more about it and found an amazingly detailed 296-page book online, available from Amazon, "Argentine Mauser Rifles 1871-1959" by Colin Webster. 22 for just plinking around and have never fired the Mauser since, only unwrapping it occasionally to oil it and admire the beautiful design and workmanship. Since I'm not a marksman or hunter I've stuck to an old. I shot up a few cacti in the Arizona desert, placed it in a gun bag and stored it in my closet. It doesn't look like an amazing rifle but this old gun is solid and packs a punch, and he paid all of 80 for it back in 2001. Apparently Argentina sold off thousands as surplus. D-Bone took a moment to show us the good ol' 'Eight'. I bought a Modelo 1891 in the 1960s from Montgomery Ward, wrapped in oil and wax paper, for about $15 along with the bayonet and some ammo. Four Argentine Mauser Bolt Action Rifles,Four Argentine Mauser Bolt Action Rifles, c. The design was wildly successful and, in 1891 Argentina, who had completed their transition to Remington Rolling Blocks only 11 years earlier, purchased an improved version: the Modelo 1891 rifle, in 7.65x53mm (a caliber now known as "7.65 Argentine.") Just a few examples of appraisal values for mauser-model-1891. (the owners of Mauser) and the Belgian State arms factory at Liege formed a new syndicate, known as Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (now known universally as "FN") to manufacture the new rifle. Due to the fact that the Mauser works were running nearly at capacity supplying the Turks, Ludwig Loewe & Co. 88 in every way, and shopped it to the Belgians. Mauser, feeling snubbed, set to work designing a rifle that eclipsed the Gew.
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1888 "Commission Rifle", so called because it was designed by a committee, rather than any independent factory. The Germans responded by fielding the Gew. 1886 Lebel by the French had, almost overnight, obsoleted every other military rifle in the world. When the Ottoman Army learned about the new Spanish model of 1893, it ordered. The late 19th Century was witness to a frantic global arms race the introduction of the Mle. Variants Ottoman variant An Ottoman Mauser 1893, captured during the World War I and exposed in the Auckland Museum. 71 Vetterli: A 19th Century assault rifle.