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After the Mauser brothers finished work on the Model 71/84 in 1880, the design team set out to create a small caliber repeater that used smokeless powder. [4] Because of setbacks brought on by Wilhelm Mauser's death, they failed to have the design completed by 1882, so the German Rifle Test Commission (German: Gewehr-Prüfungskommission) was formed.
This model was the first to chamber the 9×25mm Mauser Export cartridge. It was designed to appeal to the arms markets in South America and China. Mauser C96 pistols in this caliber usually have an indentation milled into the upper surface of the magazine's follower to facilitate feeding of the straight-cased 9×25mm cartridge cases.
Updated version of the .36 caliber Colt M1851 Navy with lines similar to the Colt M1860 Army. Colt M1862 Police revolver: The .36 caliber Colt M1862 originally made for the New York Metropolitan Police Department. Colt Root M1855 revolver: The first of Colt's revolvers to use a "creeping" loading lever mechanism. Deringer M1825 Philadelphia ...
Danish service rifle 1889-1945 8x60mm Mauser 1919 Germany 1 [13] R [13] 8×60mm 2625 [13] 2850 [13] 2.171 0.323 60mm aka 8×60mm RWS. Civilian 8mm Mauser. Comes in J and S bullets, rimmed or rimless case. Still loaded by RWS, Prvi Partizan. 8×63mm patron m/32: 1932 Sweden 1 R 8×63mm 2500 3025 0.323 63mm
They're .32, .36 caliber," he said. "These rifles were made for shooting squirrels, shooting rabbits, taking care of pests such as crows, hawks, owls. We didn't have a lot of white-tail deer ...
Caliber Gewehr 220(b) Fusil Mauser FN Modele 1924: 7 mm Gewehr 261(b) Fusil Mauser Model 1889: 7.65 mm Gewehr 262(b) Fusil Mauser Model 1935: 7.65 mm Gewehr 263(b) Fusil Mauser 1889/36: 7.65 mm Zielfernrohrgewehr 264(b) Fusil Mauser Model 1935 (sniping variant) 7.65 mm Karabiner 420(b) Carabine Mauser FN Modele 1924: 7 mm Karabiner 451(b)
The Model 1889 rifle and carbine, including Turkish Model 1890, Model 1916 and Model 1899/36 variants, all chambered in 7.65×53mm Mauser [1] The Model 1893 and 1894 rifle and carbine, chambered in 7×57mm Mauser, produced for Spain and Brazil [2] while some were used by the Belgian Gendarmerie, the Garde Civique and the Congo Free State [3]
Later, during the American Civil War, a lighter .35-caliber pistol with a .55-caliber (28-gauge) smooth bore barrel was produced. Still, as these were non-standard ammunition sizes (.36 or .44 caliber were most common for contemporary revolvers), LeMat owners had to cast bullets (instead of being issued from general military stores).