Pistol
This is the last production automatic pistol designed by Mauser engineers before World War II halted their activities. This arm uses the standard 32 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge. The magazine holds 8 cartridges and another cartridge may be inserted in the chamber giving a capacity of 9. The barrel is 3.37 inches long, the overall length is 6.5 inches, and the pistol weighs 20.6 ounces. The action is straight blowback, no lock being necessary in a weapon of this caliber and design. This...
Headspace and Gas Escape
Headspace on genuine Mausers is always held to very close tolerances. The cartridge case head protrudes about 2.8 mm past the face of the chamber into the lug well when seated with the action open. The barrel and the recessed face of the bolt surround the cartridge completely on all sides except at the extractor cut, thereby reducing the danger of blown cartridge case heads to an absolute minimum. A ring shaped groove machined into the receiver between the chamber and the locking lug, is...
The Mm Turkish Mauser
After intensive experimentation and observation Mauser had found that the best ballistics could be obtained, with the black powder then used, by reducing the caliber to 9.5 mm. This new rifle with improved locking lugs was offered for Turkish tests. In 1887 Turkey gave an order through Ludwig Loewe amp Company of.Berlin for 500,000 rifles and 50,000 carbines of this caliber and design Mauser and Loewe being 50-50 partners in the order. This rifle was 49.5 inches overall and weighed 937 lbs. The...
Model Mauser Single Shot Pistol 1
Pistol loaded and ready to fire. Note the short hammer travel. Pistol fired, all parts at rest. in the cylinder wall. During the act of cocking, the stud operating in the cut brought the cylinder around the distance of one chamber and lined the chamber up with the mouth of the barrel. Samuel Colt developed a cylinder revolving on this general system. It was never produced in quantity, however. The English Webley-Fosbey Automatic Revolver and the U. S. Union Arms Company Automatic Revolver also...
The German Service Carbine
Note special turned-down bolt handle characteristic of this model. The bolt handle locks down in front of the receiver bridge which is split to allow rearward bolt handle movement. All modern Mausers except the old Portuguese Mauser-Vergueiro have bolts which lock down to the rear of the cylindrical bridge. Photograph from specimen encountered in World War II. Note that modern German 7.9 mm military cartridges are potentially dangerous to use in this design. any cartridges in the clip, it was...
Model Serbian Top View Of Action
The left hand receiver wall in this design more fully encloses the bolt than in the earlier German type. This was one of the important modification of design. It gave added strength to the action and provided for easier loading and better type ejection. MODEL 78-80 SERBIAN INFANTRY RIFLE. Right side view of the rifle with action closed. This design was also made in the shorter carbine form. This rifle measured 50.7 inches overall and weighed 9.9 lbs. The caliber was .395 inch, the barrel being...
Early Mauser Pistols And Revolvers
Mauser made two patterns of revolvers, both of unusual design utilizing a coil mainspring as shown in the drawing housed below the cylinder in the frame. The first type was a solid frame revolver. A loading port of standard type was provided on the right side of the frame. This was a standard single action type weapon in which the hammer had to be cocked for each shot. The second type was a hinged frame design with automatic extrac-
The Schueler Mausers
In the field of large caliber high priced sporting rifles, the Mauser action has been adapted very widely. Perhaps the finest of these adaptations is that by Schueler at Suhl, Germany. Most of these rifles, like the genuine Waffenfabrik Mausers, have magazines containing 5-cartridges. Barrels may be partly octagon and partly round. 1. Type I has a 24-inch barrel with malted top rib. A tangent curve sight can be regulated up to 1000 meters. Other types of rear sights are used however. These...
Side View With Action Closed Ready To Fiee
MODEL 06-08, MAUSER SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE, RIGHT SIDE VIEW OF RECEIVER WITH ACTION CLOSED. This model has the standard 5-shot magazine. Note that cocking handle on this arm is on top of the breechblock. The magazine release catch provided to permit insertion of an oversized magazine may be seen directly ahead of the trig-gerguard. MODEL 06-08, MAUSER SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE. TOP
Model Spanish Mauser 1
In 1893 a very slightly modified version of this rifle was manufactured by Loewe for the Spaniards and shipped to Cuba. 30,000 rifles and carbines were delivered to Spanish troops there. These rifles were the backbone of the Spanish defense in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. At the battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba, 15,000 of our troops attacked the hill defended by a mere 700 Spaniards, armed with Model 1893 Mauser rifles. The fact that the cartridges were smokeless, that the rifles were...
Model Carbines
Three forms of carbines were made in quantity in the Model 1888. One was the rifle itself cut down 10.5 inches and with the bolt handle bent down somewhat. This was really a short rifle. The second was slightly shorter and had a stock which came to the muzzle. The front band served also as sight guard. This bolt was straight as in the standard rifle. Number three was the same as number two except that the bolt handle was turned down and a stacking rod was provided. The 1888 in all its forms was...
Cartridge In Firing Chamber Discharged
The drawing shows the arm after the trigger has been pulhd, causing it to pivot and release the sear from engagement with the striker. The striker spring driving the striker forward forces the firing pin point through the hole in the breechblock face to fire the cartridge. As the cartridge is chambered, the compressed magazine spring acting through its guide forcing against the nose of the magazine follower tilts that member and causes its arm to force the remaining 4-cartridges in the magazine...
Special Mauser Shortrecoil Locking System
Top Line Right side and rear detail of action. The action is fully forward and locked. Note that in this unusual design the lock is a heavy pivoting member which supports the actual breechblock at its rear. The guide tracks in the rear of the receiver indicate the distance of rearward travel of the action during recoil, cl and c2 are the lock cam faces which bring about the unlocking and locking movements . Second Line Right side view of weapon locked ready for firing, showing details of sear...
TaschenPistole mit Federverschluss
Mauser pocket pistols were manufactured in only two calibers for general production. The first, introduced in 1910, was for the 6.35mm Browning cartridge which we know as the .25 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge. It was followed by an arm of 7.65mm caliber of the same design, differing only in dimensions as required by the increased caliber and by the finger serrations on the slide. In 1934, a new model Neues Modell was introduced which varied mechanically very The Mauser 6.35 mm .25 ACP Pocket...
Model Mauser Hunting Rifle With Set Triggers Right Side View With Action Open
When the cartridges have been stripped down by the thumb into the magazine, a forward thrust on the bolt handle will knock the empty clip out of the clip guide. Note details of the famous third rear safety lug on bolt cylinder ahead of handle, and also of bolt travel guide rib on bolt cylinder. Except for the set triggers, all mechanical parts of this model interchange with the standard German military type. Note Magnum actions and special sporting cartridge designs are not commonly clip...
Ejector Mechanism
The Mauser ejector pivots on the same pin as the bolt stop of which it forms a part. It is triangular in shape, and is flat. It is actuated by a spring inside the bolt stop lever. There is a slot cut in the left locking lug and in the face of the bolt head for passage of the ejector and when the bolt is withdrawn, the ejecto springs into Mauser Kar. 98k. Action modified for volksturm use. Cal. 7.92 mm. In the emergency, Germany barreled and stocked some Mauser actions as shown. Bolts as a rule...
Mausernorris
Right side view of the original Mauser, the Mauser-Norris, with action closed. This rifle, first patented in the U. S. jointly toy Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser, inventors, and Samuel Norris of Springfield, Mass., as financial backer, is the parent arm from which the long line of Mauser rifles descended. This first design incorporated many of the basic Mauser charactertistics still in use in all bolt action military rifles. Illustrations from original early Mauser records. not exposed to...
Wtp I
In the course of its manufacturing history, Mauser produced two types of vest pocket- pistols. The first of these arms, known as the W.T.P. 1 Westentaschen Model 1 , was introduced to meet the demand in Germany for a native vest pocket pistol to fire the 6.35mm .25 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge. It was designed to compare in size with the Colt Vest Pocket Automatic introduced in 1908 and its Belgian counterpart, the Baby Browning. This W.T. 1 Model was continued in manufacture until 1939. It...
Mm Parabellum Mauser Military Pistol
When a Mauser Military Pistol of the general 1898 design is encountered with the figure 9 painted on or burned into the stocks, it indicates a standard Mauser pistol with magazine and barrel adapted to handle the regular 9mm Luger cartridge known in Germany as the cartridge for Pistole 08 ' In other parts of the world it is called 9mm Parabellum Latin for war . This powerful 9mm cartridge must not be confused with the common 9mm short used in pocket pistols. During World War I, because of a...
For Rapid Magazine Unloading
In this type pushing a lever below the magazine bottom permits the bottom and magazine follower and spring to come out and permits removal of the cartridges without the necessity of working them through the action. Special hunting sights were furnished on this Model. As modified after 1924, this design ha5 the wide gas flange issued in that year. Photograph from original Mauser records. piece. The pistol grip is steel capped. The steel plate is ribbed and has a trap for cleaning rod which may...
Recoil Position With Breech Open
MODEL 06-08, MAUSER AUTOMATIC PISTOL, LEFT SIDE PHANTOM VIEW SHOWING STAGGERED MAGAZINE PARTLY LOADED AND A CARTRIDGE IN THE CHAMBER READY TO BE FIRED. Note that in this design, a powerful separate barrel return spring is necessary and is mounted with its guide directly below the chamber in the forward part of the receiver ahead of the magazine. This is a striker-fired weapon, the striker and its spring being mounted within the breechblock. The firing pih return spring is at the point of the...
Model Mauser SemiAutomatic Rifle
The success of the original Mauser automatic pistol encouraged the great inventor to turn his developing talents to an attempt to create a military rifle in which mere pressure on the trigger would be sufficient to fire each succeeding shot. The Model 98 was the first rifle of this sort produced by Mauser which proved at all practical However, it was never in general production and will normally be encountered only in rifle collections. The original German Reich patent No. 105619 covers the use...
Model German Infantry Rifle
Right side view with action closed showing original Mauser single shot metallic cartridge rifle adopted by the German Army in 1871 and actually introduced into service in the following year. This model used the removable bolt head and split bridge receiver later used on turn-bolt Mannlicher rifles. The German Gew. 1888 bolt and receiver were evolved from the M. 71, not from M nnlicher designs. Model 71 rifles, both original and converted types, were used in the Balkans even in World War II.
Model Belgian Mauser Right Side Phantom View With Action Open And Bolt Started
Note that it is not necessary to remove the empty clips manually. The bolt moving forward will hit the bottom of the clip and tilt it out of the weapon. Continued pressure on the bolt handle will cause the face of the bolt to strip the top cartridge forward and chamber it. Turning the bolt handle down when the forward action is completed will lock the lugs at the forward ends of the bolt cylinder securely in their receiver recesses and will complete by cam action the cocking of the rifle as...
Stolen Germn Mausers Ww11
MODEL 86. MAUSER MAGAZINE PISTOL WITH TUBE MAGAZINE AND BLOCK LOCK Top Line Details of lock work, all parts at rest, left side view. Second Line Details of safety and lock plate. MODEL 86. MAUSER MAGAZINE PISTOL WITH TUBE MAGAZINE AND BLOCK LOCK Top Line Left side and rear details. Magazine is empty, but hammer is at full cock and pistol is locked. Second Line Left side view of Carbine model of this pistol design.
Info Sue
obtained to provide a different pitch to suit the hand of an individual shooter. The dimensions and characteristics of the .25 caliber are as follows Overall length, 5,25 inches, barrel length 2.96 inches, height 4 inches, thickness 15-16th inch, weight, 15 ounces, magazine capacity 9 cartridges. The dimensions and characteristics- of the .32 caliber are as follows Overall length, 6 inches, barrel length 3.39 inches, height 4.5 inches, thickness 1.12 inches, weight, 21 ounces, magazine capacity...
Attachment
The rear of the pistol grip is slotted to permit an engagement lug at the forward end of the shoulder stock to be thrust up to act as a secure locking unit. The shoulder stock is usually of wood and is hollowed out to act as a holster for the pistol when not in use as a shoulder piece. The button seen at the rear of the stock is a spring catch which opens the hinged butt-plate to permit insertion of the pistol for carrying. The range of this arm is in the neighborhood of 1,000 yards. Since the...
Type K Mauser Hunting Rifle With Single Trigger And Hunting Sights
This type was developed with lever operated magazine bottom release, special forestock, sights and sling swivels for genera hunting use. Kurz or short actions are essentially reduced size military receivers and bolts. The original idea of using a shorter than standard action to reduce weight and speed operation was developed at Steyr in Austria, where 1910 Mexican and 1912 Serbian rifles were built. The current Yugoslav military action is shorter than the standard Kar. 98k. TYPE M MODEL 98-08....
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JOHANN NIKOLAUS von DREYSE, 1798-1868. Inventor of the needle gun, from which all modern bolt actions are derived. In France, where he worked for many years, his name is commonly written Jean Nicolas Dreyse. An original drawing of the Dreyse needle gun 1. THE Z NDNADELGEWEHR OF NICOLAS DREYSE The story o the Mauser rifles arid of all military bolt action rifles begins with the development of the Dreyse Needle Gun, the famous Z ndnadelgewehr. The inventor of this first successful bolt action gun...
Model Mauser Automatic Pistol
At the time of its introduction this pistol was believed by Mauser and his associates to be a tremendous advance in the field of automatic weapons. The simple locking mechanism operating through check valves, permitted pistol manufacture at a much lower cost than had heretofore been possible in the Mauser factory. The original Mauser 96 pistol was an extremely expensive arm to machine. However, the feature which most impressed Mauser's associates was, curiously enough, the elementary one of...
Model Belgian Mauser Right Side View Of Receiver Section With Bolt Fully
This weapon was designed for quick loading through the top of the action with the now famous Mauser strip-in clip. The clip was inserted in the guide, and the cartridges were stripped down off it by thumb pressure directly into the magazine below. Note that the magazine was also removable to permit insertion of larger magazines and for cleaning. The bolt stop is in the form of a hinged lever with a tooth projecting into a groove in the receiver for the left locking lug of the bolt. This lever...
Mauser 7.9 X 56mm
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Mauser Caliber Single Shot Rifles
Mauser manufactured a large line of single shot and repeating bolt action .22 caliber rifles. Following is a list of the types 1. Bolt action single shot with 20-inch round barrel and standing rear sight. No safety catch. Overall length 27 inches. Weight 4 pounds. This is a low priced rifle for sale at competitive prices. It is not intended for accurate target work. 2. The second model single shot has a 25.5-inch barrel with tangent curve sight graduated from 30 to 200 yards and wind gauge. The...
Action Open And Magazine Loaded
This rifle, manufactured by Mauser as well as others but not of Mauser design functions as follows Lifting the bolt handle through 90 degrees to the left cams the firing pin point back inside the bolt cylinder and revolves the lugs at the forward end of the cylinder out of their recesses in the receiver. Initial extraction is also started by this movement. The bolt handle is pulled straight to the rear as far as it will go. A Mann-licher type clip of modified design holding 5-round nose Model...
Type A Sporter
This design was made in Germany specifically for foreign markets. It was finished much better than those for home consumption. Various types of sights were provided and this design was made in both single-trigger and double set-trigger types. The stock usually has a cheek-piece which is full checkered and a capped pistol grip. The fore-end tip is horn-capped. Sling swivels are provided, one on the barrel and the other on the stock. The usual barrel length of this type is 24-inches, round,...
7.63 Mauser Pistol
Countries Using Mauser Author's Note Historical Foreword The American Who Controlled the Mausers The Personal Account of Samuel Norris 1 The Zundnadelgewehr of Nicolas 2 The Mauser-Norris 3 The Earliest Mauser Rifles 4 Model 71, the First Production Mauser 5 Model 1873 German Army Rifle 6 The Rise of the Repeating Rifle 7 Model 71-84 the First Successful German Repeating Rifle 65 8 The Development of French Competition 9 The First Serbian Repeater 10 The 9.5-mm Turkish Mauser 11 Model 88 German...
The Rise Of The Repeating Rifle
While the Mauser brothers were starting their work, the Spencer repeating rifle with a tube magazine in the stock had been developed in the United States by 1862 and had done terrible execution in our Civil War in 1865. It was followed shortly by the Henry, which soon was purchased by Winchester and altered to their famous Repeater this rifle carried the cartridges in a long tube below the barrel. Thirty thousand Winchester rifles were used by Turkey in their war against Russia in 1877-78 and...
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MAUSER-NORRIS 67-69. TOP RECEIVER VIEW The locking lug on this arm is an exterior one locking down in the receiver on the right side behind the chamber section. This was the first crude form of the now world famous Mauser bolt. In order to produce a double-side locking device, there is a comparatively big stud on the chamber, below the forward end, in the same plane with the handle a matching counter-stud is provided on the opposite side, but this counter-stud is located slightly farther...
The German World War Ii Kar K
1. With laminated stock. 2. With plastic stock. 3. With special winter trigger. Mechanically these are all practically the same as the Gew. 98. However, they have the wide gas flange, magazine follower bolt stop, an d improved sights, etc. developed in 1924. Persian Mauser Carbine. Caliber 7.92 mm German. Mechanically the same as the German. Belgium made these Mauser System rifles and carbines for general export. Barrel lengths, stock types, slings, sights and calibers could be dictated by the...
The Personal Account Of Samuel Norris
In 1898, when the Mauser had proven itself a terrible weapon in the Boer War and in Cuba, when its name was a by-word in American newspapers, Samuel Norris sat down to write for posterity an account of his connection with the now famous rifle. The litde Bristol Phoenix and the New York Times carried his account, an engrossing summary which is as remarkable for what it leaves out as for what it tells. Of the era in which the brothers Mauser worked and nearly starved , Samuel Norris wrote Every...
Mausernorris Right Side Sectional View Of Receiver With Action Closed 1
The rifle is cocked and loaded ready for firing by pressure on the trigger Note the shape and position of the powerful ejector whose rear end is cammed down as the bolt is pulled to the rear, thereby lifting the front point of the ejector sharply to knock the empty case out the top of the rifle. the drawings which form part and parcel of it. As regards the patents awarded in other countries, not requiring an identification of the inventor, we quote here abstracts from Austrian Patents 17864...
With Action Closed
Note position of cocking handle and mounting of rear sight in this design. MAUSER ' VALVE-TYPE LOCK FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC SHORT-RECOIL RIFLE Top Line Top view showing action locked. Rear ends of two locking arms are securely gripping cuts in breechblock. a is receiver b is barrel is breechblock m and m are lock faces. Second Line Top view showing action unlocked. As barrel and breechblock traveled back locked together, when the breech pressure dropped to safe limits the cam surfaces e and e of the...