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Section 9: Military Weapons Subject: Mausers Msg# 1107350
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| The NRA reprint pictured has articles originally printed in American Rifleman that cover everything from pre-WWI to WWII Mausers, to identifying markings to remodeling a military Mauser for hunting, which was far more popular forty years ago. They go, in fact, back to the Model 1888 Commission Rifle, which wasn't really a Mauser at all, in that reprint. I can't really say the WWI Mausers had straight bolts and WWII Mausers had turned down bolts, generally. It is true if you are only asking about the German Gew 98 of WWI and German K98k of WWII. But remember the Germans were far from the only country to use Mausers. Much of western Europe and most of South America, as well as some of Southeast Asia bought and used Mausers, and whether or not they used turned down bolts varied a good deal. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I'm guessing they were both WWII variants? Don't the WWI's have a straight bolt handle? Image below from Mark Freburg - Image Title: photos Image Info: Cover of an old NRA reprint from the pages of American Rifleman. Some of these old reprint covers were almost suitable for framing.  |
