The author started this fine rifle with a 1909 Argentine Mauser action made by DWM. When they were permitted to do so, Mauser resumed producing hunting and sporting rifles. In the case of Mauser, they made precision measurement instruments and tools such as micrometers. Like most of the German arms companies, Mauser kept going during the postwar period and its prohibition against arms production by producing other products. Three Mauser engineers, Alex Seidel, Theodor Koch and Edmund Heckler went on to establish the firm of Heckler & Koch, which is still going strong today. Most of the records were destroyed, although some were saved by former Mauser employees. The factory in Oberndorf was gutted after the war ended and the equipment confiscated and much of it moved to France.
In 1898, the German army bought the Mauser design and its 7.92×57 cartridge as their standard combat rifle.
In 1897, the old Royal Arsenal was turned over to the Mauser brothers, becoming Waffenfabrik Mauser AG. The Mauser brothers, Wilhelm and Paul, came on the scene in about 1867 when they invented a vastly improved rotating bolt system for breechloading rifles, and in 1871 their Model 71 rifle was adopted by the German army as its standard rifle.īetween that event and 1898, the brothers developed several different improvements featured in succeeding models, culminating in the development of the standard upon which just about all bolt-action rifles today are based in one manner or the other, the Model 98. What eventually became the Mauser company began in 1811-1812 as a Royal Arsenal in Oberndorf, Germany, a small village in the Black Forest region. Raise your firearms IQ with Gun Digest 2017. And with the company's return to this iconic design, it is again turning out a highly engineered gem. The Mauser Model 98 is a true classic when it comes to bolt-action rifles. The trigger and bottom metal are from Blackburn-Swift and the three-position safety is from Dakota Arms. The DWM-made 1909 Argentine Mauser action was about as pristine as one is apt to find these days. These components were used to craft a lovely hunting rifle chambered for the 9.3×64 cartridge.