They don’t handle gas from a pierced primer or ruptured case as well as the later large ring Model 98 Mauser rifles, and thus are in less demand from hunters and shooters. Later loads featured a 154-grain spitzer bullet at around 2,700 fps and a 174-grain bullet at around 2,400 fps.īecause of the age of these guns, condition is very important. 308 Winchester cartridge, the 7.65x53 was originally loaded with a round-nosed 211-grain bullet traveling at around 2,100 feet per second. Very similar in size and performance to the modern.
The 18 rifles (and the less common 1890 Turkish rifles) were chambered in 7.65x53 Mauser, commonly known as 7.65x53 Argentine. The 1891 rifles were adopted by Argentina, with some making their way to Peru. Improvements made in 1891 included removing the barrel jacket, which experience had shown had led to moisture retention, rust, and burst barrels in the Commission rifles.
While retaining the barrel jacket of the German 1888 Commission rifle, as well as a push-feed bolt, the Mauser’s clip-fed magazine was a major improvement over the Commission rifle, immediately outclassing it. The first Mauser rifles developed to handle smokeless powder cartridges were the Model 1889 rifles developed for Belgium. But they’re still perfectly serviceable and capable of being part of your battery of firearms. The Mauser 98’s predecessors, because they lasted less than a decade and were constantly being improved upon, therefore don’t receive the same attention that their more recent brethren do. The Mauser 98 that was used in Germany from 1898 to 1945 was the pinnacle of bolt action rifle development, coming after a hurried 12-year arms race that began with the French Army’s introduction of the Lebel rifle in 1886. When people think of Mauser rifles, they generally think of World War I and II and the German Army.
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