![]() ![]() Beginning in 1913, large sight protectors were added to the front sight. The M1916 rifle had a bent bolt handle & a full-length stock with a lug for an M1913 sword bayonet. The M1893 introduced a short staggered-column box magazine that fit flush with the bottom of the stock & the magazine held five smokeless 7×57mm Mauser rounds, which could be reloaded quickly by pushing a stripper clip from the top of the open bolt. The M1893 was based on the experimental M1892 rifle, which Paul Mauser developed for the Spanish Army as part of a program to correct deficiencies in the earlier 1889, 1890 & 1891 series of Mauser rifles. ![]() The Mauser Model 1893 is a bolt-action rifle commonly referred to as the Spanish Mauser, although the model was adopted by other countries in different calibres, most notably the Ottoman Empire. The Model 1916 rifle was adopted on 14 November 1916 to replace the M1895 carbine which was itself a descendant of the Mauser Model 1893. ![]()
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