I had the hankering to shoot some 8MM Mauser yesterday so I pulled this old gal off the wall. She had not seen the sun in a while. After shooting I took the old rifle down for a good examination for the destroyer of history, (rust) and tended to it properly. This rifle is a bit of a mix of parts. The receiver serial was struck but a new one was not added. There are no numbers on the magazine floor plate or on the screws. The receiver seems not to be scrubbed, but never marked. The Calvary style bolt does not match either the original serial or a number I found, for the first time today, on the stock. The bore and crown is in very good shape, the sights were on, so it shot better than I do. Floor plate, butt plate and front barrel band have lost most of their bluing. I have a feeling, between the bore condition and the other metal parts, that this may have spent more time drilling than fighting. It must have been here for a while as it has no import marks.
Name that Mauser!
QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Persian carbine? Vz24 with a bent bolt? IDK.
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
My vote goes to Polish in origin, maybe a WZ-29?
The Circle Z mark is, I think, Polish
The Circle Z mark is, I think, Polish
Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
South American, Chinese or Romanian contract.....? Has the same style bolt that is on my Brazilian contract VZ-24JC rifle.
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Czech.
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Capt. 14 K ?
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Circle Z is BRNO, I have this rifle bought at a late 1980's flea market for $25. I was told it was used by Syria and for the most part left unmarked by BRNO. The circle Z was the BRNO marking for export items, BRNO suppled much of the Mauser world after Germany lost the franchise in 1918. Persia, Turkey, and so on.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Circle Z what JYD said
Real gun control is the ability to hit the target.
Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Winner! WZ 29, and you may add an E as a suffix. (export?) Possibly a SCW volunteer. The bent bolt is rumored to be a Calvary thing.House Beagle wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 9:19 pm My vote goes to Polish in origin, maybe a WZ-29?
The Circle Z mark is, I think, Polish
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Not Romanian, but maybe a Romanian contract to another country.
Romanians CZ24 serial number starts with a R or sometimes a letter in front of the R like ... XR, AR, BR, CR and so on.
Darryl
Romanians CZ24 serial number starts with a R or sometimes a letter in front of the R like ... XR, AR, BR, CR and so on.
Darryl
Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
The Romanian VZ24s were made by the Czechs. The R means it was a Romanian contract. You are correct that they came in batches like that.
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Re: QUIZ: What Mauser am I?
Spanish La Corona possibly? The Spanish scrubbed the crest off of rifles for years and did a nice job when doing so. Spain rebuilt and reconfigured Mausers into many different variations and exported a bunch before 1968 That receiver looks like their work.
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