A few American rifles, including the Model 70 Winchester, were chambered for the 7.65 round, and American loading companies produced it for a while, but that is long gone. Bullet diameter is 0.311 in., the same as that used by the. 308 performs better because it operates at higher pressure, the 7.65 being held to 46,000 psi, or so. The rear sight is a military ladder type and the front sight is an inverted вЂњVвЂќ This вЂ™91 has a walnut stock, a straight bolt handle, and a 29.1-in. The machining and fabrication processes were also of high quality. My Model 1891, made by Ludwig Loewe of Berlin, was made for smokeless powder, and Loewe was known for using the best steel and heat treatment processes available. One thing we have going for us is the quality that was put into the construction of these arms. Shooting old military rifles is a very interesting pastime, but only when it can be done safely. It was an early step toward the famous Model 1898 Mauser, but not as strong or as safe as that later arm. The Model 1891 has an action identical to the preceding Belgian Mauser Model of 1889, which was the first Mauser model to have a bolt with two front locking lugs, a vertical magazine, and a design intended for use with smokeless powder cartridges. Since then I have had some additional shooting experience that I would like to report for the Model 91. You can check that out if you would like a complete description of this old, military number. Not bad for November, and a long shooting season is just one of the things I am thankful for.ДЄccompanying me to the range was a Model 1891 Mauser, caliber 7.65 x 53, also known as the вЂњArgentine Mauser,вЂќ that I first described in a post on June 9, 2011. Yesterday I enjoyed a trip to the shooting range with an afternoon temperature of 61 deg. They are a very capable rifle.Only three days remain until Turkey Day, 2012, as I write this. Maybe ask $ 400 and see what counter offers you get. There are a fair number of these rifles in this condition for sale, so it really isn't a rarity. The last Model 1891/09 rifle in comparable condition that sold - to my knowledge - went for $ 300 four years ago.

People are asking crazy high dollars on GunBroker, but none are selling.

The value of your rifle is hard to estimate. When Firma Lowe was not beset by the exigencies of war, they turned out the very best quality military rifles possible. The Nazis seized his trust in the early 1930's and it was never returned. Eventually the disaster which was post war Germany caught up with them and they had to refinance and give up majority control. Lowe and his descendants were fairly astute businessmen and kept Germany's firearms sector alive after WW I when the rest of the country was falling apart. He and his family trust owned the controlling interests in Mauser and DWM which stayed in his family until the mid 1920's when DWM was broken up and reorganized as several firms. Offbeat note: Lowe was Jewish, as were his descendants. No FFL is necessary to ship or transfer it. All told, a typical Argentine Model 1891/09. Bore looks OK, with maybe a bit of frosting. Yes, your rifle was upgraded to the Model 1891/09 standard. The barrel of my Model 1891/09 carbine appears to have been set back and rechambered, but I have seen other Model 1891/09 carbines which were obviously rebarreled. The chamber throat is also much longer on the early carbine than my Model 1891/09 carbine. Their rear sight bases are identical, but the ladder graduations are different. The later Model 1891/09 carbine rear sight goes to 1,400 meters. I do have a Model 1891 cavalry carbine with a sight which only goes to 1,300 meters. The Argentines apparently did not consider it a high priority to convert all the carbines. I have never seen a long rifle with the early ladder sight, but have seen a number of cavalry carbines with early rear sights. The later Model 1891/09 rifle sights are graduated to 2,000 meters. He did not have such a rifle, but had handled one in Rosario while he was collecting information for a book he was writing. An advanced collector told me that the early Model 1891 sights only went to 1,800 meters. The original Model 1891 ladder sights for RN bullets had shorter maximum ranges.

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