BRA - Mauser 1894

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History
In 1894, Brazil introduced into the armament of the repeating rifle Mauser, virtually identical with the Spanish model 1893. The only difference is the feeder to the hubs, which is in the rear part of the tapered, so when the empty tray is not to close the conclusion should be a feeder for crushed down.
Rifle M1894 has been manufactured to the companies Ludwig Loewe in Berlin, and Fabrique Nationale in the belgian Herstalu.

Design
Brazilian rifle Mauser 1894 is a repeater weapon with the ball odsuvným conclusion. Bullets are stored in a double-breasted, solid cartridge mailbox, located in front lučíkem the trigger. The mailbox is filling from above using a charge tape.

The main parts of the rifle are: the Barrel with mířidly, case conclusion, conclusion, the charge box and the butt.

Barrel length 740 mm is provided with four pravotočivými grooves with a constant pitch of 220 mm. The barrel is also připájena the base of the visor.

The barrel is at the rear zašroubována to the receiver which combines all the basic parts of weapons in a single unit. In case the conclusion is also moving conclusion. In the rear part of the receiver is the so-called springboard, in which the front side are vyfrézovány cutouts for the deployment of charging the tape. On the left side of the jumper is a screw fastened in the wheel holder to the end which forms the rear stop, the end.

The conclusion consists of závěrnice, extractors, ring extractors, úderníku, drums, springs, úderníkové nut, fasteners, pin fasteners with a spring and a fuse.
In závěrnici are for a headboard two locking barbs and to the right of her outgoings equal to the crank end. At the forefront of závěrnice is the hole for the zápalník úderníku and on the right is the rotary extractor.
On úderníku is navlečena percussion spring whose rear end is a bayonet joint deployed úderníková matrix, which has at the bottom of the toolbar to zkosením, which corresponds to the screw surface in the viewport závěrnice. During the rotation of the závěrnice left is úderníková matrix odtlačována backward and that is by a percussion spring. In the lower section of the bar úderníkové the matrix is the calk, which is used to capture the jointed stimulus lever.
The individual parts of the conclusion connects the enclosure, in which is stored a fuse. Křidélková fuse has three positions - left, triggered by, up provided and in the location of the wings of the fuse on the right is ensured and in addition blocked the movement end.
Stimulus organs located in the housing end, consists of the trigger with the pin, the stimulus of the spring and stimulus of the lever with the clevis pin. A spring pushes the spoušťovou the lever up, where his jointed captures úderníkovou matrix. Press the trigger to cut the rear part of the stimulus lever, calk coming out of the shot and úderníková of the matrix is released. After releasing the pressure on the trigger spoušťová lever returns to the original position.

Charge box, whose body form a whole with the lučíkem the trigger, is the two bolts from the bottom, screwed to the sleeve end. The bottom of the mailbox is to the body by means of using odpruženého of the pin. In the bottom of the clipboard is inserted a folded flat spring, which pushes up the feeder cartridges. The hubs are in the mailbox stored šachovnicově in two rows.

The butt stock and nadpažbí are made out of full wood. The sleeve end is for the barrel secured by two intermediate screws, which also connect the housing with the charge-mail box. The barrel is the barrel secured by two hlavňových sleeves.

Technical details
Caliber - 7 mm
Hub - 7x57
Length - 1240 mm
Length with bodákem - 1605 mm
Empty weight - 3.9 kg
The mass of the charged weapons - 4,2 kg
The length of the barrel - 740 mm
The number of grooves in the barrel - 4
Climb of a bore - 220 mm
A sense of pitch - right
The depth of the grooves - 0,13 mm
The width of the grooves - 3,9 mm
Muzzle velocity - 720 m/s
The capacity of the cartridge box - 5 hubs
The range of looks - from 300 to 2000 m

Markings
Brazilian rifle Mauser 1894 were on the upper surface of the sleeve of the receiver marked by the brazilian national character, on the left side of the receiver then was the designation "ESTADOS UNIDOS do BRAZIL", and under it the name of the manufacturer "FAB. NAT. ARMES HERSTAL 1894" or "MANUFACTURA LOEWE, BERLIN".
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