Mauser African Twins
AROUND 1 5, HOPING to increase sales am African settlers and hunters, Mauser oduced the ‘Original Mauser Magazine Sporting Rifle, Special Afr can Type’. It had a 28-inch barrel (more correctly, 700mm) and its stock’s fore-end d nded three-quarters of the way t the muzzle. Such a long rifle was really unsuited to most African terrain; consequently sales were not brisk and the African model was not made in large numbers – it is, in fact, quite rare. Many examples were modified by their owners who shortened the barrels and stocks. These rifles are especially rare overseas, but fortunately for local Mauser collectors, there are a few in South Africa.
The Mauser factory also listed the African model
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