ARG - Mauser 1891

History
In 1891 it was the representatives of the South american countries presented a slightly modified repeat Mauser Turkish model 1890. Argentina immediately ordered 180 thousand rifles and 30 thousand carbines, which are introduced under the designation of Model 1891. In addition to the Argentina gun Mauser 1891 ordered to Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, but according to the first customer is called "the argentine".
From the original Turkish model argentine Mauser 1891 differs only prolonged nadpažbím and a modified mounting of the tray.

From the infantry rifle Model 1891 was derived and carbine. Featured principal, reduced by 290 mm, forend extending to the muzzle and down the bent crank conclusion. Carbine M1891 has not been adapted for deployment bodáku.

The very firm Mauser, however, was so busy making muzzleloaders M1890 for Turkey, she was forced to production of the model 1891 left the firm of Ludwig Löwe & Co (which already owned over 80% of the shares Mausera), which made all the weapons of the argentine contract and probably even all the rifles for other states.

Design
Rifle Mauser 1891 is a refresher gun with swivel odsuvným conclusion. Bullets are stored in a single-row, fixed the mailbox, located in front of the trigger guard and the trigger. The box is filled from the top by charging the tape.

The main parts of the rifle are: the Barrel with sights, case conclusion, conclusion, gas -, and stock.

Barrel length 740 mm is provided with four right-handed grooves with a constant pitch of 250 mm. On the barrel is also soldered the base of the visor.

The barrel is in the back screwed into the breech that connects all the essential parts of weapons in a single unit. In case the conclusion is also moving conclusion. In the back of the case the conclusion is the so-called bridge, in which the front side are vyfrézovány cutouts for the deployment of charging the tape. On the left side of the bridge is mounted a spring-loaded bracket the conclusion that, outside of the rear end of the conclusion, it also works as a bouncer.

The conclusion consists of závěrnice, extractors, firing pin, drum spring, striker nuts, caps and fuses.
In závěrnici are in front of the two opposite locking barbs and right in the back of her outgoings equal to the crank end. At the head of závěrnice is an opening for firing pin the firing pin. On the right side of the závěrnice is nalisovaný extractor made of spring steel.
The firing pin is threaded through the drum spring and at its rear end is screwed úderníková matrix, which has at the bottom of the bar with the bevel, which corresponds to the screw surface in the viewport závěrnice. When turning závěrnice left is úderníková matrix odtlačována backward and thus is stretched by a drum spring. At the bottom of the moldings striker nut is the claw, which is used to capture cog of the sear.
The individual parts of the conclusion connects the enclosure. In her stored křidélková fuse has three positions - left disarmed, up to ensure, and when the position of the wings fuse to the right is ensured and in addition blocked the movement of conclusion.
Trigger system, placed in a pouch the conclusion consists of the trigger with the pin, the trigger spring and the sear with the pin. The spring pushes the spoušťovou the lever up, where your cog captures úderníkovou nut. Pressing the shutter button will lower the rear of the sear, claw comes out of the shot and úderníková matrix is released. After the release of pressure on the trigger to spoušťová lever returns to its original position.

Neodnímatelná shot box is two screws from the bottom screwed to the case conclusion. Tilting the bottom of the mailbox is the mailbox attached using a spring-loaded pin. In the bottom of the clipboard is inserted folded flat spring, which pushes up the feeder rounds. The bullets are in a box stored in one row.

Case conclusion is the barrel full of wood attached with two continuous screws, which also connect the housing with the trigger guard of the trigger and the cartridge box. The barrel is the barrel fastened with three hlavňových sleeves, while from the front forward stands out capture bodáku.

Technical data - rifle
Caliber - 7.65 mm
Hub - 7,65x53
Length - 1230 mm (L. Olson reported 1235 mm)
Length with bayonet - 1632 mm
Empty weight - 3.9 kg (L. Olson notes 4.0 kg)
The weight of the loaded guns - 4.4 kg
Barrel length - 740 mm
The number of grooves in the barrel - 4
Pitch bore - 250 mm
The sense of pitch - right
The depth of grooves - 0.13 mm
The width of the grooves - 4.1 mm
The capacity of the cartridge box - 5 rounds
The range of looks - from 250 to 2000 m

Technical data - carbine
Caliber - 7.65 mm
Hub - 7,65x53
Length - 940 mm
Empty weight - 2.95 kg (L. Olson states of 3.27 kg)
Barrel length - 450 mm
The number of grooves in the barrel - 4
Pitch bore - 250 mm
The sense of pitch - right
The depth of grooves - 0.13 mm
The width of the grooves - 4.1 mm
The capacity of the cartridge box - 5 rounds
The range of looks - from 250 to 1200 m

Markings
The rifle M1891 for Argentina were marked by the argentine national emblem on the top surface of the socket of the receiver, the type designation and the manufacturer on the left side of the breech. Rifles for other south American countries have been marked by similarly..