[DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20010803

[Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com>]

Mauser Model 1871 was a single shot weapon but it did
have a bolt action. It was later reworked into a
magazine rifle with a tubular magazine.
The 'Mauser' M/1888 was the first 'modern' German box
magazine fed bolt action rifle. It is not really a
Mauser design, it was designed by a cimmitee and is
famous as the only comitie designed weapon that was
any good! Some were supplied to the UVF before the
Great War and ended up in Africa - still with the red
hand and 'For God and Ulster' on the stocks.
The 'classic' Mauser came in 1898.

Martini HenryLee-Metford 1889

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