Dad's old Mauser

[DaveN]

Harlan, it looks like it was a model 1891. The Ball book(Mausers of the world) states that Argentina placed an order for 180,000 and that Mauser was busy with a Turkish order and had Ludwig Loewe & Co of Berlin manufacture the majority of them. The stock IMO doesn't look modified but is foreign to the original . I saw no crest in your pics but the hands shaking is in the Argentine crest in the book. My T.ST.V Mauser looks alot like yours with the broken piece forward of the forward sling ring and top hand guard removed leaving a modern hunting rifle look. and I assume mine is totally shootable in that condition. I can't tell by pics , yours or the books whether any mechanical changes were made but with the new pistolgripstock it shoul shoot better then the straight stock it came with. 1891 should be the born on date?

180,000 rifles 30,000 carbines.
It says 7.65X53 in the Ball book.
Replaced by the 1909 in duh 1909.
Some were made by DWM.