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No cash was involved, but with the cost of the traded item, I'm into this little carbine for $125. The rifles were issued in the white and interestingly, the roughest-looking metal work is the exterior of the Springfield barrel! These carbines were made by Steyr of Austria before WW1 and the workmanship is extremely nice. Naturally, I had to shoot it as soon as I got it home and my initial minute-of-dirt clod indicates it'll be a fine shooter. My example is a two groove and the bore is bright and in superb condition. It's my understanding that both '03 two and four groove barrels were used. See if your local library has a copy of 'Mauser Military Rifles Of The World', by Robert W.D. The Steyr rifles were also originally in 7 x 57mm. 308 and had chamber inserts brazed into them - were converted by using 1903 Springfield 30-06 barrels which were cut to 23" and re-threaded for large ring Mauser receivers. For what its worth, 1895 Chilean Mauser, Modelo Mauser Chileno 1895, 7.62 Nato conversion Chilean Mausers were made by by Ludwig Loewe or DWM, and were originally in 7 x 57mm (7mm Mauser). These - unlike the Modelo 1912 long rifles, which had their 7mm barrels rebored to. My latest acquisition is a Chilean Modelo 1912-61 short rifle. As most folks realize, if one were to collect an example of every Mauser ever made, in every caliber and every variant, one would need two warehouses: One for the rifles and one for the cash required to buy them all!Īs I'm distinctly short on both warehouse space and cash, I've limited my Mauser collecting to one particular sub-species: Military M98-type mausers which were officially arsenal re-chambered to 7.62 NATO and issued in this configuration. This past weekend I picked up a nice addition to my 7.62 NATO Mauser collection at the Hattiesburg, MS gun show.