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Mechanical Variations of Mauser Bolt Action Military Rifles
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Mechanical Variations of Mauser Bolt Action Military Rifles

Collecting these great historical battle rifles is great fun, but the serious novice will soon become confused, and then irritated. The Author, a veteran Mechanical Engineer, knows this, because it happened to him too. He actually wrote this book for his own use, from notes he made to avoid being cheated out of hard-earned gun-collecting investment funds, and now he shares it with you. Its Mauser Model identification procedure guides the new collector in sorting out a specific rifle identity from the world's hundreds of known physical variants, using standard photographic references commercially available to everyone. It is chock full of brand-new close-up photos, mechanical details, info on chamber crests, markings, and the historical time line of the many global manufacturers of this immortal rifle. It is written in a crusty, personal and often irreverent style (but only where irreverence is well past due!)

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Product Details:
Author: James Wingate
Paperback: 536 pages
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Publication Date: September 04, 2007
ISBN: 141967093X
Package Length: 10.5 inches
Package Width: 7.75 inches
Package Height: 1.33 inches
Package Weight: 2.89 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 2 reviews
 
 

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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

3Interesting Study on Military Mauser Rifle Models  May 25, 2008
This treatise on the Mauser turn-bolt system rifles is largely an index to information contained in the "standard" works on Mauser, especially Ball's Mauser Military Rifles of the World and Ludwig Olsen's Mauser Bolt Rifles. The author makes no claims to be in an expert; the preface outlines the author's goal to give the reader a way to identify rifles and focus on their mechanical variations - this it does.

Pros:
· Several good timelines on rifle manufactures, cartridges and, of course, models.
· Lots of black and white photographs; photo quality fair to excellent.
· Concise dimensions of the component parts of various models.

Cons:
· Little "new" information.
· The writing style and humor (acknowledged by the author in his preface) is all his own - not at all what I was expecting in a scholarly study authored by a Professional Engineer.

This book is a useful adjunct to the detail-oriented collector/researcher if you already have the more commonly read Mauser rifle books.


2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

4Mauser mechanical variations  Mar 10, 2008
This book is a compiliation of articles out of many other reference books. If you have all the other references, it's kind of a dissapointment. However, I'm sure I'll find some limited use for it someday.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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