“Tag: Mauser”

Mark Keefe sends the new Mauser Model 12 downrange at SHOT Show 2014. Check out this preview to an upcoming American Rifleman feature article.

Haven’t heard much about new German bolt-action hunting rifles recently? That’s because there haven’t been many. But stalwarts Mauser and Sauer each have one and, perhaps not surprisingly, both are accurate and innovative.

Factory codes for the Mauser Kar. 98k went through several changes during the design’s production run. Find out more here.

In September 1944, American and British airborne troops jumped into Nazi-occupied Holland in a desperate gamble to end the Second World War by Christmas.

Wiley Clapp says he hasn't seen a Chinese Mausers for many years. Was the market for them so big that they have all disappeared into safes?

At first look, the Mauser C96 seems as ungainly as a newborn colt. Its weight and bulk hardly lends itself to any modern notion of a carry gun, but a closer inspection reveals a gracefulness in construction no longer seen in today’s pistols.

The modern, clip-loaded Model 1889 Mauser chambered in 7.65x53 mm was used by Belgian troops to slow down the German onslaught in 1914. It was superior Belgian marksmanship and the Model 1889 that gave the French and British time to pull off the "Miracle of the Marne."

Gletcher, a company known for producing meticulously detailed pneumatic replicas of real firearms, has extended its product line to include the M712—a reproduction of the Mauser C96 Broomhandle’s M712 variant.

I am looking for some help with a pistol I inherited from my grandfather. One of his brothers brought it home as a souvenir after World War II. The gun has no Nazi markings.