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An early C96 prototype "Red 9" Mauser C96 with stock. Within a year of its introduction in 1896, the C96 had been sold to governments and commercially to civilians and individual military officers. The Mauser C96 pistol was extremely popular with British officers at the time, and many purchased it privately.
The 'Broomhandle' Mauser details the development, usage, and impact of the Mauser C96, in Germany, its country of origin, and later via unlicensed foreign copies. The book is heavily illustrated, as Ferguson, who works at the Royal Armouries Museum, was able to photograph C96s from the museum.
The Mauser Model 1895 adopted as Fusil Mauser Chileno Mo 1895 [17] by Chilean forces, is a bolt operated magazine fed rifle using the 7×57mm Mauser cartridge. It is the first major modification of the Mauser Model 1893 and was produced by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, known as DWM, and Ludwig Loewe Company from 1895 to 1900.
The Basque-manufactured Astra-Unceta y Cia SA Astra 901 is a compact machine pistol, with a magazine capacity of 10 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridges, which is a considerably smaller capacity than is standard for a machine pistol. The next model, the Astra 902, was provided with a fixed magazine of 20 cartridges and a lengthened barrel, and Astra ...
The Bergmann MP34/I and MP35/I were offered in 9×25mm Mauser in addition to other calibers. [10] SIG automatic carbine models MKMO, MKMS, MKPO and MKPS were produced in Switzerland from 1933 until 1942 with 9×25mm Mauser caliber as an option. [11] The Scotti OM 42 was an experimental Italian submachine gun in 9×25mm Mauser. [12]
Most of the rifles were originally produced by Mauser and DWM with a special 6.8×57mm cartridge. [3] The production of the Model 1907 soon started in Guangdong arsenal with DWM help. The 1911 revolution slowed the purchase of weapons [ 11 ] and in 1914, thousand of 6.8mm Model 1907 rifles stored in Germany were chambered to the standard 7.92× ...
Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH resumed the production of the Mauser models M 98 and M 98 Magnum again, according to the original drawings and respective Mauser patents of the Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k. In 2000, Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH and its European sister companies ( J.P. Sauer & Sohn , Blaser and Swiss Arms ) were unified by the German investors ...
The widespread availability of standard size Mauser 98 rifles and the fact that the .375 H&H Magnum cartridge and its necked down version the .300 H&H Magnum with approximately 72 mm (2.83 in) case length were too long to fit in standard sized Mauser 98 bolt-action rifles makes the shorter 8×68mm S, 6.5×68mm and .375 Hölderlin interesting ...