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9780873496179

Mauser Military Rifles of the World

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    9780873496179

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    0873496175

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-08-01
  • Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc
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Summary

This fully updated edition of Mauser Military Rifles of the World presents the latest information in the continuing search for rare and collectible examples of these well-known rifles. No other book so extensively and accurately brings the production details, workmanship and historical impact of Mauser rifles into such sharp focus. And all the information is presented in an easy-to-use alphabetical format that puts all the details and photographs right at your fingertips. Collectors at every level will refer to these pages again and again. Gunsmiths will love the technical data, historians will embrace the background information and investors will eagerly devour the facts and figures that answer thousands of questions. This is one book every Mauser enthusiast needs. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert W. D. Ball, a native of West Hartford, Connecticut, has been a militaria collector, dealer and historian for more than fifty years

Table of Contents

Preface 8(2)
Acknowledgments 10(2)
ARGENTINA
M1891 Rifle
12(1)
M1891 Carbine
12(3)
M1909 Rifle
15(2)
M1909 Sniper Rifle
17(1)
M1909 Cavalry Carbine
17(2)
M1909 Mountain Carbine
19(2)
AUSTRIA
M1914 Rifle
21(2)
BELGIUM
M1889 Rifle
23(1)
M1889 Carbine with Bayonet
24(1)
M1889 Carbine with "Yataghan"
24(1)
M1889 Carbine "Lightened"
24(1)
M1889 Carbine "Lightened with Yataghan"
25(1)
M1890 Turkish Rifle
26(1)
M1916 Carbine
26(1)
M1935 Short Rifle
26(1)
M1889/36 Short Rifle
26(1)
M35/46 Short Rifle
27(1)
M50 Short Rifle
27(1)
FN M30 Postwar Short Rifle
28(1)
M24/30.22 Caliber Training Rifle (Army)
29(1)
M24/30.22 Caliber Training Rifle (Navy)
29(16)
BOLIVIA
M1895 Rifle
45(1)
M1907 Rifle
45(1)
M1907 Short Rifle
46(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
47(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Export Model Short Rifle
47(1)
M1950 Serie B-50 Rifle
48(1)
BRAZIL
M1894 Rifle
49(1)
M1894 Carbine
49(1)
M1904 Mauser-Vergueiro Rifle
50(1)
M1907 Rifle
50(1)
M1907 Carbine
51(1)
M1908 Rifle
51(1)
M1908 Short Rifle
51(2)
M1922 Carbine
53(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
54(1)
M1935 Mauser Banner Rifle
54(1)
M1935 Mauser Banner Short Rifle
55(1)
M1908/34 Short Rifle
55(2)
M954 Caliber .30-06 Short Rifle
57(1)
CHILE
M1893 Rifle
58(1)
M1895 Rifle
59(1)
M1895 Short Rifle
60(1)
M1895 Carbine
60(1)
M1912 Steyr Rifle
61(1)
M1912 Steyr Short Rifle
61(1)
M1935 "Carabineros" Carbine
62(2)
CHINA
G 71 Rifle
64(1)
K 71 Carbine
64(17)
M1895 Rifle
81(1)
M1907 Rifle
81(1)
M1907 Carbine
82(1)
M1912 Steyr Rifle
83(1)
M98/22 Rifle
83(1)
FN M24 and 30 Short Rifles
83(1)
M21 Short Rifle
84(1)
"Chiang Kai-Shek" Short Rifle
85(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
86(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
86(2)
M1933 Standard Modell Carbine
88(1)
VZ 24 with Japanese folding bayonet (Chinese copy)
89(1)
COLOMBIA
M1891 Rifle (Argentine Pattern)
90(1)
M1904 Rifle
90(1)
M1912 Steyr Rifle
91(1)
VZ 23 Short Rifle
92(1)
Steyr-Solothurn A-G M1929 Short Rifle
92(1)
FN M24 and 30 Short Rifles
93(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
94(1)
FN M1950 Short Rifle
94(2)
COSTA RICA
M1895 Rifle
96(1)
M1910 Rifle
96(1)
FN M24 Short Rifle
97(1)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
M1898/22 Rifle
98(1)
VZ 23 Short Rifle
99(3)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
102(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
103(1)
VZ 16/33 Carbine
103(7)
DENMARK
G 98 Action Military Target Rifle
110(1)
K98k Action Military Target Rifle
111(1)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
M1953 Rifle
111(1)
M1953 Short Rifle
112(1)
ECUADOR
M1891 Rifle (Argentine Pattern)
113(1)
M1907 Rifle
113(1)
M1910 Rifle
114(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
114(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
114(1)
FN M30 Short Rifle
114(1)
EL SALVADOR
M1895 Rifle
115(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
115(1)
ESTONIA
Czech Model "L" Short Rifle
116(1)
ETHIOPIA
FN M24 Carbine
117(2)
M 1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
119(1)
M 1933 Standard Modell Carbine
119(1)
FRANCE
Post-WWII Modified K98k Carbine
120(1)
GERMANY
Percursors of the Mauser System
121(1)
Chassepot-Mauser Rifle
122(1)
Mauser-Norris Model 67/69
123(1)
Experimental Mauser with Hook Cocking Piece
124(1)
Mauser Interim Models 1869/70
125(3)
Attempts to Develop Repeaters
128(1)
Kropatschek Mauser M1886
129(1)
M1871 Short Action Rifle
130(1)
End of the M1871 Rifle
131(2)
M67/69
133(1)
G 71 Rifle
133(2)
J 71 Rifle
135(2)
K 71 Carbine
137(1)
G 71 Short Rifle
137(1)
G 79 G.A.G. Intermediate Rifle
138(1)
G 71 /84 Rifle
139(2)
G 98 Rifle
141(13)
a) Naval issue
142(1)
b) "Stern," or star-marked rifles
143(4)
c) G 98 Rifle with fixed action cover
147(1)
d) Anti-aircraft sights
147(1)
e) Grenade launchers
148(1)
f) Rifle grenades
148(1)
g) Colonial Service ('KS') G 98 Rifle
149(1)
h) G 98 Rifle with sliding bolt cover and large capacity magazine
150(1)
i) G 98 Sniper Rifles
150(2)
j) "Radfahrer Gewehr," or Bicycle Troops Rifle
152(1)
k) Purpose-built .22 caliber training rifle
153(1)
K98 Carbine, 2nd Pattern
154(2)
K98AZ Carbine
156(1)
K98a Carbine
156(1)
13mm Anti-Tank Rifle
157(3)
Flier's Rifle
160(17)
G 98 Transitional Rifle (Weimar Republic)
177(1)
K98b Rifle
177(2)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
179(2)
M1933 Standard Modell Carbine
181(1)
K98k Carbine
182(13)
a) Sniper Model carbines
185(2)
b) 98k Carbine with fixed, large-capacity magazine
187(3)
c) 98k Carbine with Erma .22 caliber device
190(1)
d) KKW purpose-built .22 caliber Training Rifle
190(1)
e) Postal Service markings
190(1)
f) "BNZ" Concentration Camp-made 98k Carbine
191(1)
g) SS "Death's Head" markings
192(1)
h) 98k Carbine grenade launcher and equipment
193(1)
i) 98k Carbine rear-sight cover
194(1)
j) 98k Carbine action cover
195(1)
G 33/40 Carbine
195(2)
G 29/40 Rifle
197(2)
G 24(t)Rifle
199(1)
VG 1 Carbine (People's Rifle)
200(3)
VK-98 Carbine
203(1)
West German Police/Border Guards Heym Mauser Rifle
203(1)
M 41M (GEW41(M)) Semi-Automatic Rifle
203(3)
GREECE
M1930 Short Rifle
206(1)
M1930 Carbine
207(1)
GUATEMALA
M1910 Rifle
208(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
208(1)
VZ 33 Carbine
209(1)
HAITI
FN M24/30 Short Rifle
210(2)
HONDURAS
G 71 Rifle
212(1)
M1895 Rifle (Chilean Pattern)
212(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
212(1)
IRAQ
Post-WWII 98k-style Carbine
212(1)
IRELAND
G 71 Rifle
213(1)
ISRAEL
Czech Post-WWII 98k Carbine
214(1)
FN 98k-style Short Rifle
215(1)
JAPAN
G 71 Rifle
215(1)
LATVIA
VZ 24 Short Rifle
216(1)
LIBERIA
FN M24 Short Rifle
217(1)
LITHUANIA
FN M30 Short Rifle
218(1)
LUXEMBOURG
M1900 Rifle
219(1)
FN M24/30 Short Rifle
219(1)
MANCHURIA
Mukden Arsenal Rifle
220(2)
MEXICO
M1895 Rifle
222(1)
M1895 Carbine
223(1)
M1902 Rifle
223(1)
M1907 Steyr Rifle
224(1)
M1910 Rifle
224(1)
M1910 Carbine
225(1)
M1912 Steyr Rifle
225(1)
M1912 Steyr Short Rifle
225(1)
FN M24 Short Rifle
226(1)
FN M24 Carbine
227(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
227(1)
M1936 Short Rifle
228(1)
M1954 Short Rifle
228(1)
MOROCCO
Post WWII FN carbine
229(1)
FN .30-06
229(1)
NETHERLANDS
M1948 Carbine
230(2)
NICARAGUA
VZ 24 Short Rifle
232(1)
VZ 12/33 Carbine
232(1)
NORWAY
K98k Reissued Carbine
233(1)
K98k-action Military Target Rifle
233(1)
ORANGE FREE STATE (OVS)
M1895 Rifle
234(1)
M1895 Chilean-marked Rifle
235(1)
M1896 Loewe & Co. Rifle
236(1)
M1897 DWM Rifle
237(2)
PARAGUAY
M1895 Rifle (Chilean Pattern)
239(1)
M1907 Rifle
239(1)
M1907 Carbine
239(1)
M1909 Haenel Export Model Rifle
240(1)
M1927 Rifle
241(1)
M1927 Short Rifle
241(1)
FN M24/30 Short Rifle
242(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
243(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Carbine
243(1)
PERSIA/IRAN
M1895 Rifle
243(1)
FN M24/30 Short Rifle
244(1)
M98/29 Long Rifle
244(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
245(1)
M30 Carbine
245(1)
M49 Carbine
246(1)
PERU
M1891 Rifle
247(1)
M1891 Carbine
248(1)
M1895 Rifle
248(1)
M1909 Rifle
248(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
249(1)
M1935 Short Rifle
250(1)
POLAND
M98 Rifle
251(3)
M98AZ Carbine
254(1)
Wz 29 Short Rifle
254
Wz 98a Rifle
212(61)
Wz 29 22 caliber Training Rifle
273(1)
Kbk 8 Wz 31 22 caliber Training Rifle
273(1)
PORTUGAL
M1904 Mauser-Vergueiro Rifle
274(1)
M904/M39 Rifle
275(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
276(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Carbine
276(1)
M937-A Short Rifle
276(1)
M1941 Short Rifle
277(1)
ROMANIA
VZ 24 Short Rifle
278(2)
SAUDI ARABIA
FN M30 Short Rifle
280(1)
SERBIA/YUGOSLAVIA
M78/80 Rifle
281(1)
M1884 "Koka" Carbine
282(1)
M1899 Rifle
283(1)
M1899c Rifle
284(1)
M1908 Carbine
284(1)
M1910 Rifle
285(2)
M90 (t) Short Rifle
287(1)
M03 (t) Short Rifle
287(1)
M24 Short Rifle
288(1)
M24 Carbine
289(1)
FN M30 Short Rifle
289(1)
FN M24 Carbine
289(2)
M1948 98k Short Rifle
291(1)
M24/52C Short Rifle
292(2)
SLIOVAK REPUBLIC
VZ 24 Short Rifle
294(1)
SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC-Z.A.R. (ZUID-AFRICAANSCHE REPUBLICK)
ZAM 1896 "B" series Rifle
294(1)
M1896 ZAR Loewe Long Rifle
294(1)
M1895/1896 "C" series
294(1)
M1896 ZAR Rifle
295(1)
SPAIN
M1891 Rifle
295(1)
M1892 Rifle
296(1)
M1892 Carbine
296(1)
M1893 Rifle
297(3)
M1893 "True" Carbine
300(1)
M1895 Carbine
300(1)
M/G 98 Modified Rifle
301(1)
M1916 Short Rifle
302(2)
M1916 "True" Carbine
304(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Short Rifle
304(1)
M1933 Standard Modell Carbine
305(1)
M1943 Short Rifle
306(1)
FR 7 Special Purpose Rifle
307(1)
FR 8 Special Purpose Rifle
307(1)
SWEDEN
M1894 Carbine
307(1)
M1896 Rifle
308(1)
M1896 Sniper Rifle/M41 AGA scope
309(1)
M1896 Sniper Rifle/M42 AGA scope
310(1)
M1896 Sniper Rifle/M44 AGA scope
310(1)
M1896 Military Target Rifles
311(1)
M1938 Short Rifle
312(1)
SYRIA
M1948 Short Rifle
313(1)
THAILAND/SIAM
G 71 Rifle,
314(1)
M1903 (Type 45)Rifle
314(1)
M1904 Rifle
315(1)
M1923 (Type 66) Short Rifle
315(2)
TRANSVAAL
G 71 Rifle
317(1)
TURKEY
M1887 Rifle
317(1)
M1890 Rifle
318(2)
M1893 Rifle
320(17)
M1903 Rifle
337(1)
M1905 Carbine
338(1)
M98/22Rifle
339(1)
M 38 Short Rifle
340(1)
M38 Short Rifle w/unique folding bayonet
340(2)
URUGUAY
G 71 Rifle
342(1)
M1895 Rifle
342(1)
M1908 Rifle
342(1)
M1908 Short Rifle
343(1)
FN M24 Short Rifle
344(1)
VZ 37 ("937") Short Rifle
344(1)
VZ37("937") Carbine
345(2)
VENEZUELA
G71/84 Rifle
347(1)
M1910 Rifle
347(1)
VZ 24 Short Rifle
347(1)
FN M24/30 Short Rifle
347(1)
FN M24/30 Carbine
348(1)
FN M24/30 Military Target Rifle
349(1)
YEMEN
FN M30 Short Rifle
350(1)
MAUSER CURIOSA
Dreyse-made G 71 Rifle with experimental magazine
351(1)
G 71/84 Cutaway Training Rifle
351(1)
Steyr G 71/84 Short Rifle (Trainer?)
352(1)
M1892 U.S. Trials Rifle, Model #3
352(1)
M1892 U.S. Trials Rifle, Model #5
353(1)
M1904 "Salesman's Sample" Export Rifle
353(1)
M1892-93 Experimental Rifle
354(1)
"Mystery Mauser"
355(1)
Generic M1904 MT salesman's carbine
355(1)
Generic M1904 MSE salesman's carbine
355(1)
German Trench Rifle-firing Device
356(1)
Torpedo Boat 5cm Cannon Subcaliber Device on a J 71 action
356(1)
Hybrid Short Rifle using M1917 action
357(1)
Police 98a Cutaway Training Carbine
358(1)
FN M30 Carbine, Dutch East Indies plantation security force
358(1)
K98k Cutaway Training Carbine
358(1)
DWM M1895 Carbine
359(1)
RG 34 Lg Anti-Tank Rifle Cleaning Kit
360(6)
Bibliography 366

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