

S&K 1891 Argentine Mauser Short Rifle And Carbine Scout Mount (Weaver Style) Short Ladder-Accepts Weaver Rings- Rings NOT Included. PRVI Partizan is the only manufacturer of ammo for this gun that is sold in. We offer both receiver scope mounts and scout mounts for your Mauser or old war rifle.Get that hard to find scope mount at The Country Shed. Although there is a variant cartridge called the 7.65x53mmR a rimmed cartridge, dont confuse the two. I have never heard of any rechambering for that rifle. The older sporterized rifles were often converted and housed in stocks of questionable origin. If the one you have is a true Argentine mauser 1891, pretty sure you are correct in 7.65x53mm. After the Mauser brothers finished work on the Model 71/84 for Germany in 1880, the design team set out to create a small caliber repeater that used smokeless powder. These rifles were popular and chief alternatives to newly manufactured domestic made hunting rifles. This is an excellent example of the Model 1891 Argentine Mauser rifle, one of many 'export' models made for foreign governments, all based on the Mauser Model 1889. Typically, the barrel was replaced and the stock either modified or changed out to what is known as a sporter stock. The action made for an economical sporting rifle build when compared to sporting rifles built by Remington, Winchester, and Savage. While many were preserved in their original military configuration, a great number were sporterized for hunting and target shooting. Like its Belgian and Turkish predecessors, the Argentine 1891 uses a bolt with front-locking lugs, the distinctive Mauser wing-type safety selector, a one-piece wooden stock, and a wood upper handguard that. The 1891 Argentine Mauser is a cock-on-close, striker-fired repeater feeding from an internal five-shot, single-stack box magazine. Founded in Oberndorf, Germany, in 1874 as Königliche Waffen Schmieden, the company was an effort started by the Mauser brothers, Peter and Wilhelm, several years earlier when they designed and produced rifles for the Prussian military.įrom the end of World War II through the late 1990s, many thousands of Mauser rifles hit American shores via the surplus market. The 1891 Argentine Mauser is a cock-on-close, striker-fired repeater feeding from an internal five-shot, single-stack box magazine. Then, the following year, Argentina adopted a slightly modified version of the Belgian 1889 as Mauser Modelo Argentino 1891, also known as the 1891 Argentine Mauser. The name Mauser is one of the oldest names in firearms.
