This problem was decided to be sufficiently severe for it to be addressed in the 1898 rifles in around 1908.
MODEL 1916 SPANISH MAUSER CRACKED
The hard impact against the stop surfaces (rather than the cushioned impact when putting a dent into a primer) could cause fatigue in the stress concentrating sharp corners in the lug joint.Ī firing pin that was cracked part way through, could sometimes let go when the bolt was being closed, causing out of battery firing, and causing at least serious hand injuries and probably far worse. I think that the Wermacht were a major offender (I always cringe when someone dry fires!) Some institutional users had training drills that included dry firing. The major problem is the stress concentration in the reduced thickness parts of the firing pin and the sharp corners of the lugs.Īlmost all of the front locking Mauser rifles you are likely to encounter, have the dry firing stop surfaces inside the bolt sleeve. The weight of the cocking piece gets dragged along with the firing pin, slowing down lock time, but it isn’t there at the point of contact with the primer, because of the clearances in the joint it has to play catch up, spreading the impact energy out over a longer time and cushioning the blow. The minor problem is that of a cushioned firing pin impact on the primer. Unfortunately the lug attachment system brought different problems,
The lug attachment can only fit together correctly, or not at all. IIRC the model of 1892 also introduced lugs rather than screw threads to attach the cocking piece to the firing pin.Īpparently the screw threads of the 1889 had proven to be subject to incorrect reassembly by troops (I’ll guess that that was by Otterman troops rather than by Belgians or Belgian colonials, as the Belgians kept the 1889 right up into the war to make a world safe for Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim). With the availability of CNC or even of investment casting, even the cost saving excuse for a separate piece of bent sheet metal forming the feed lips, begins to appear dubious. Sheet metal feed lips come into their own as a cost saving measure when for example one standard size bolt action sporter receiver is expected to be made up into guns chambering cases from.
They had better control of tolerances on the one piece receiver,than they didid with two or more pieces of metalĪnd the feed lips were safely hidden away from being used as a hammer or a bottle opener This is one reason why so many designers built the feed lips into the gun itself (Mauser, Tokarev, Bergman, Mannlicher’s fixed mag pistols, Schaunauer… to name a few) Whether the mag is feeding from a single position or alternate sides. The dimensions and geometry of the feed lips are critical when you are pushing cartridges out of a magazine and straight into the chamber. As a result only about 2000 rifles and 400 carbines were actually received in the 1892 pattern. However, the introduction of the 1893 pattern with its flush double-stack magazine was a significant improvement, and Spain opted to supersede its order for 1892 rifle with 1893s instead. Spain tested and approved the 1892 pattern, first with a small purchase in 7.65mm and then with a much larger order for rifles in 7x57mm. It also introduced the central safety position for disassembly of the bolt, the long rotary extractor, and a guide rib in the receiver to help smooth the bolt movement.
The model 1892 uses a unique improved single stack magazine that can be disassembled using a cartridge case.
MODEL 1916 SPANISH MAUSER FULL
The Mauser took nearly 10 years of development and iteration to reach its full potential, and the 1892 pattern Spanish Mauser we are looking at today is one of the scarcer intermediate variants showcasing that development. The Mauser 98 may have been the best bolt action design of all time, but it did not spring forth from Paul Mauser’s head fully formed.
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