The Mauser system safety is about as perfect a safety as can be devised. This can sometimes be adjusted by stoning the camming angle to allow it to pick up the cocking piece. In many rifles the safety is difficult or The safety lever cams the cocking piece away from the sear and blocks its forward movement. Its not much of a safety shield between the bolt and the shooter's eye.Īdd to this the fact that the 1895 model Mauser has -zero- gas escape features designed into it. This safety lug is only utilized if the two bolt locking lugs should happen to completely shear off.
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This is the so-called safety lug for the bolt handle. Notice the uneven wear on the lower lug race compared to the upper race. The barrel threads were cut off revealing the bolt lug races. The longitudinal lines in the grooves are from the rifling cutter, and the radial marks on top of the lands are from the precision reaming of the The "smushed" rifling in front of the chamber neck is the leade, or throat. This close-up shows the tearing of the chamber by a dull chambering reamer, just below the neck and in the neck area. The gap in front of the chamber is thought to be caused from gas cutting of the soft solder joint. This is not a particularly prudent conversion as the action was not designed for subsequent use This sectioned barrel shows the chamber insert and solder joint. They are beautifully built rifles, but they are not suitable of endless thousands of rounds of 7.62 NATO ammunition, nor even token amounts of. I have several of these rifles in my collection in the original caliber of 7x57mm and enjoy shooting them. If the stock is dated 1898, which many DWM are.ħ.62x51 NATO cartridge. BATF, but the DWM are classified as "Curio-Relic" (modern) even Those rifles manufactured by Ludwig Loewe are considered antique
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~See new images at the bottom of this page~Īpplies to models made by Deutsche Waffen - und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) as well. barrel modification, safety, sear, lug races, bolt handle notch. 1895 Chilean Mauser, Modelo Mauser Chileno 1895, 7.62 Nato conversion