Ludwig Loewe Co. crested Spanish M93/95...

[Patrick Chadwick]

The foresight blade is an absolutely standard Mauser blade. Look for suppliers selling K98k spares. The blades are available in various heights, and you usually need a tall one (they go to 8-9 mm) if you want to shoot it at 100 yards, because the rifles of that era were typically zeroed for about 300 meters (look it up in Olson). The action is a small-ring action (predecessor to the 1896 Swedish Mauser action) and should be fired with lightish loads - plenty of load data available for this caliber, which is 7mm Mauser. A most effective round that does not hammer your shoulder. But you will probably have to reload with flat-base round-nose bullets for best accuracy, as the throats on these old service rifles are often very deep (manufacture? wear? quien sabe?)

As to the 93/95 confusion. I think that either Ball or Olson mentions that the factory used up stocks of 93 parts when they started making the 95s, so what you have is not uncommon.***

And if you follow the methods I have been describing in the Restorer's Corner, about an 1879 Argentine RB, it will clean up brilliantly.

Patrick

***Just checked. It is actually mentioned in Kuhnhausen "Mauser Bolt Actions". Apparently some of the 95 action bodies were milled to take the flat bottomed bolts from the 93.

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