Mauser double set trigger

[GUTS]

I bought this trigger the other day and I really can't find much information about it. Did they acually use these on some of the German sniper rifles or are they just a commercial trigger.

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[GUTS]

I'm suprised that nobody can help me out with some information, this must really be an oddball trigger setup. Can anyone point me in a direction for some information? I have tried searching the web and can't find much except that they actually exist. Maybe it's not even a Mauser trigger assembly and I'm a dummy for buying it.

[Gun Surfer]

This thread on the firing line may be helpful. How did you acquire that item? While I am not an expert, seems that double set triggers were not military issue. That would not necessarily keep soldiers from using what was available perhaps, or the victors from appropriating them as spoils of war.

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[Patrick Chadwick]

This thread on the firing line may be helpful.

A touch of understatement there - that thread pretty well says it all!
It is a very ordinary commercial double-set trigger of (historically speaking) recent manufacture, using some cast components, some stamped components, and a wire spring. A common retrofitting when Mauser systems are used for hunting rifles, of which I have seen plenty. But not on military rifles. (I am tempted to say never, but that would be challenging fate.)

For comparison, here is a real antique, of a somewhat different quality, from my 1850s Anschütz muzzle-loader:

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Note the leaf spring. All parts hand-cut and hardened. Perfectly sharp edges after 160 years. Absolutely stable let-off. Now cleaned and put back into the rifle. As good to use now as when it was made.

Patrick

[Gun Surfer]

Wow Patrick, you are correct. I only read down far enough in the post to learn about the set vs single triggers on Mausers. This is a very thorough thread indeed.

Your trigger shows an example of the impressive manufacturing from the beginning of the industrial age, still working as designed today.

[GUTS]

That is indeed a fine article, thank you for posting it. I now have a trigger set and no rifle to go with it. I guess I should hve bought more ammo or something else usefull with the money.