A purdy' Ankara Turkish M93 Mauser followed me home

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Hiya Guy's :) ..
As some of you already know and like a lot of y'all here on the board I just can't turn down a good deal on a purdy' unmolested original configuration Mauser. I was hoping this post was going to be on the 1893 Spanish M93 7mm Mauser that I recently picked up, unfortunately it was stolen 2 days after I got it from my place while I was gone. A few days later I got lucky when this purdy ' 8mm Turkish M93 muser marked AS.FA Ankara 1934 under a crescent moon and star on the receiver followed me home. Granted it's 41 years newer than the Spanish Mauser but it's still an M93 so I can post this M93 thread after all :) ...

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Not exactly unmolested original configuration, but it is purdy! Always nice to find a gun that old that looks like it was kept that well.

If I recall correctly (meaning don't quote me), that one should have originally been 7mm possibly with a magazine cutoff. The Turkish government upgraded everything to a standard 8mm with no cutoff sometime in the 30s. One of the interesting historical asterisks we have from this upgrade is the large-ring but small shank Mausers. Anyway...

Sorry to hear about your loss. Glad you got a replacement. Old Mausers are cool!
 
Thants a nice one. Some of my first Mausers were Turks back in the 90s when they all came in. I still have them. A couple K.Kale M38s, couple 03/38 short rifles, 1 98/22, and a M93 like yours that still has the cut off box but no lever. I might have another 1 or 2 I can't remember. They were all good shooters. Especially with that hot 8x57 in the 2.99 on sale 70 rnd bandoliers. Oh and a 1903 rifle
 
Thanks Guy's :) . I was wondering the same thing about the age of the receiver myself and y'all can correct me if I'm mistaken but I'm thinking the receiver could possibly be as old as 1893 and this was rechambered / rebarreled from 7mm Mauser to 8mm Mauser in 34' . I actually traded a pair of 22's for this Mauser, one of which was a Pietta Puma PPS 50 that a friend has been after for a while, but I gladly put them on the trading table for this purdy turk Mauser :) .

It's all #'s matching & even has the numbers matching bayonetwith it. Overall it's in really nice condition for its age and even Nabor is sharp and clean, and yes, the bolt is snug in the reciever. Unfortunately when this Mauser was rearsenaled the magazine gollpwer was trimmed & it's missing the cleaning Rod, other than those two things it's really nice :) ...

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gsbuickman said:
Thanks Guy's :) . I was wondering the same thing about the age of the receiver myself and y'all can correct me if I'm mistaken but I'm thinking the receiver could possibly be as old as 1893 and this was rechambered / rebarreled from 7mm Mauser to 8mm Mauser in 34' .
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Have you already watched Othias' discussion on the 1893 Ottoman Mausers for the historical background?

 
morcey2 said:
I think you're definition of "Greatest" and my definition differ somewhat. :D
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That's the true beauty of Mausers, They have a big tent. There is enough room for many tastes & many desires...

But in the Enfausers defence, think about it. you have the near perfect 8mm Mauser round married to the quick slick action of the Enfield. Now if this was not enough, because of what happen to these rifles they are linkable to the Drip rifles on Gallipoli or the Kut Al-amara surrender.. Now wait it gets better.. Because those Turk gunsmiths, when they cobbled these together, did not remove the unit disks from the stock you now can track those rifles back to their respective units.

Now like that hair raising tale was not enough..

Now looking at these in an economic sense. The Turkish government was "gifted" British enfields.. Now they could have just sold them to get rid of them.. Heck no.. Someone came up with the order to standardize all the various rifles in the Turkish inventory. So these gunsmiths probably spent more time & effort bringing these enfields up to Turk army standards then if they just ordered new.
 
indy1919a4 said:
That's the true beauty of Mausers, They have a big tent. There is enough room for many tastes & many desires...

But in the Enfausers defence, think about it. you have the near perfect 8mm Mauser round married to the quick slick action of the Enfield. Now if this was not enough, because of what happen to these rifles they are linkable to the Drip rifles on Gallipoli or the Kut Al-amara surrender.. Now wait it gets better..
Because those Turk gunsmiths, when they cobbled these together, did not remove the unit disks from the stock you now can track those rifles back to their respective units.

Now like that hair raising tale was not enough..

Now looking at these in an economic sense. The Turkish government was "gifted" British enfields.. Now they could have just sold them to get rid of them.. Heck no.. Someone came up with the order to standardize all the various rifles in the Turkish inventory. So these gunsmiths probably spent more time & effort bringing these enfields up to Turk army standards then if they just ordered new.
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How do you say "Bubba" in Turklandish?;)
 
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