The group also owned the firms Blaser, SIG and Sauer. In about 2000, give or take a year, Rheinmetall sold the civilian arms portion of Mauser production to the Lüke-Ortmeier group of investors who then formed Mauser Jagdwaffen GmbH. In celebration of the 100th birthday of the Model 98 in 1998, they produced a few military Model 98s and also a few original Model 98 sporting rifles.
German mauser rifle 1898 series#
The company was taken over by the Rheinmetall Group in 1995 or thereabouts, and from then until about 2000 or so Mauser built and marketed a series of rifles, namely the Model 96 and 97. It offered many advantages over standard sporting rifles, but – typical of German fascination with engineering – contained a zillion parts, was expensive, overly heavy and was ugly as sin. The Mauser Model 66 featured a very short action, quick interchangeability of barrels and calibers. Mauser acquired the production rights to the Gehmann design and began production. It was not a Mauser design, but rather one by Walter Gehmann, a well-known inventor, competitive shooter and firearms dealer in Germany. In 1966, the Mauser plant introduced a rifle to the sporting market of a totally new design. The stock is by ace stockmaker Gary Goudy. The author started this fine rifle with a 1909 Argentine Mauser action made by DWM. When they were permitted to do so, Mauser resumed producing hunting and sporting rifles. In the case of Mauser, they made precision measurement instruments and tools such as micrometers. Like most of the German arms companies, Mauser kept going during the postwar period and its prohibition against arms production by producing other products. Three Mauser engineers, Alex Seidel, Theodor Koch and Edmund Heckler went on to establish the firm of Heckler & Koch, which is still going strong today. Most of the records were destroyed, although some were saved by former Mauser employees. The factory in Oberndorf was gutted after the war ended and the equipment confiscated and much of it moved to France. In 1898, the German army bought the Mauser design and its 7.92×57 cartridge as their standard combat rifle. In 1897, the old Royal Arsenal was turned over to the Mauser brothers, becoming Waffenfabrik Mauser AG. The Mauser brothers, Wilhelm and Paul, came on the scene in about 1867 when they invented a vastly improved rotating bolt system for breechloading rifles, and in 1871 their Model 71 rifle was adopted by the German army as its standard rifle.īetween that event and 1898, the brothers developed several different improvements featured in succeeding models, culminating in the development of the standard upon which just about all bolt-action rifles today are based in one manner or the other, the Model 98. What eventually became the Mauser company began in 1811-1812 as a Royal Arsenal in Oberndorf, Germany, a small village in the Black Forest region. Raise your firearms IQ with Gun Digest 2017. And with the company's return to this iconic design, it is again turning out a highly engineered gem. The Mauser Model 98 is a true classic when it comes to bolt-action rifles. The trigger and bottom metal are from Blackburn-Swift and the three-position safety is from Dakota Arms. The DWM-made 1909 Argentine Mauser action was about as pristine as one is apt to find these days. These components were used to craft a lovely hunting rifle chambered for the 9.3×64 cartridge.
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