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The Mauser Model 1889 is a bolt-action rifle of Belgian origin. It became known as the 1889 Belgian Mauser , 1890 Turkish Mauser, and 1891 Argentine Mauser. [ 3 ]
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]
The Belgian Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre (National Manufacturer of War Weapons) company, also sometimes known as Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (National Manufacturer at Herstal), but better known simply as "FN" or "Fabrique Nationale" was founded at Herstal on the edge of Liège in 1889. As well as weapons, it was for many years a ...
The original 1889 pattern military ball ammunition was introduced in the Mauser Model 1889 and loaded with a 13.65 grams (210.7 gr) round-nosed bullet fired at a muzzle velocity of 650 m/s (2,133 ft/s) with 2,884 J (2,127 ft⋅lbf) muzzle energy. [1]
Belgian Mauser; Belgian Mauser Model 1935; F. FR8; G. Gewehr 98; K. ... FN Model 24 and Model 30; Mauser M 98; Mauser Model 1871; Mauser Model 1889; Mauser Model 1893 ...
Model 1924 / Model 1930: Carbine and rifle based on the Mauser 98 carbine. Karabiner 98k: 7.92×57mm Mauser bolt-action rifle produced post-World War II. Model 1950: .30-06 Springfield bolt-action rifle; updated version of the Model 1930. Model 30-11: 7.62×51mm NATO bolt-action sniper rifle developed from FN-built Mauser Karabiner 98k rifles.
Belgian Mauser Model 1935; F. FN Model 1949; M. FN Model 24 and Model 30; Mauser Model 1889; Mauser Model 1903; Mauser Model 1904; Mauser Standardmodell; V. Vz. 24
In August of the same year it was awarded a contract to build around 140,000 Mauser Model 1889 rifles and 10,000 carbines for the Belgian Army, but it turned out that they underestimated the cost of production during a European war and underbid the price (the first rifles were only completed in September 1916 and only arrived to Belgium in 1918).