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Chilean Mauser Serial Numbers3/20/2021
All Loewe Marked rifles are antique as Loewe was merged into DWM in 1897.
![]() Chilean Mauser S Plus Firear LoginOr Learn more Continue ParallaxBills Curio Relic and Military Surplus Firear Login Join HOME ParallaxBills Curio Relic and Military Surplus Firear Parallaxs Curio Relics Firearm Forums are for collectors of military surplus firearms of all kinds and gun collecting in general.FORUMS DISCUSSIONS GALLERY MESSAGES NOTIFICATIONS ParallaxBills Curio Relic and Military Surplus Firear Collectible Mauser Rifles The Spanish, Central and South American Military Rifles Forum Notes on Chilean Model 1895 Mausers Moderators: M39Scout, trautert, Carl Gustav, nothernug, ThePitbullofLove, VIS35, beanstrung, Cabinetman Share Share with: Link: Copy link Switch to Print View -. Most M1895s originally had dated stock cartouches but only 1895, 1898 and 1902 dates are observed and stocks may have been made in batches. See thread on Gunboards Mauser forum, Chilean 1895 survey needed, ser will give approximate date. All I want is a 1892(rifle), Spanish that is.:-) 05-04-2009, 05:35 AM John Wall Senior Member Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: Boston, Massachusetts Posts: 1,207. The gun making division of the Loewe businesses was grouped together with his ammunition manufacturing businesses into DWM over a year before the date of 1898, which US firearms laws defines as the last year of the antique era. ![]() At this point, DWM became the ordnance division, joining other units which specialized in machine tools, power generation, sewing machines, etc. However, that only proves that their stocks were fabricated after 1898. The re-organisation became effective 1 January 1897, and Rifles made after that date bore the DWM-Berlin address, either in full or abbreviated. There are, in Boer Mausers, an M1896 Loewe and a M1897 DWM marked models, otherwise Identical. So as stated above, any Loewe marked rifle of any model, is ipso-facto, made before 1 January 1897; any DWM marked rifle, after 1 January 1897. Thus under US ATF antique rulings ( 1898 limit) all Loewe marked rifles are Antique, and all DWMs made after 1898 (date) are NOT antique. Only Serial Numbers and contract dates can establish if an 1897 DWM is actually Antique. Most will be) As to Chilean M95 short rifles and carbines, The Short rifles were made in several batches, 1895 and 1902. The 1902 DWM ones are NOT antique (made post-1898); there are also variations in rear sights, as the first batches of M1902 Delivery SRs had the same rear sight as the M95 ( Flat, ladder with slide); later 1902 delivery models had the Carbine type rear sight (M1905, same as Turkish, Brazilian 07 and Argy M09)) As the stocks were machined (not subsequently Hand-Hogged out) for the M1905 type rear asight, I would surmise they were factory fitted before delivery, probably in the 1905-1908 period for this last batch of Small Ring Mauser Short rifles, of which there are several versions, an ArtilleryEngineers Musketoon, and a Mounted Troops (Not Cavalry) side slung as well carbine. True cavalry still used the M95 18-inch barrel carbine ( side Sling D loops for both sling and cavalry sash and hook, to use with a saddle bucket.) It is surmised that before WW I, DWM did supply Chile with some replacement barrel and sight sets, with which to upgrade M95 Short rifles to the new type sights. Upgrade SRs will have the woodwork hogged out to seat the newer, longer rearsight sleeve in the stock. Chile has a discrete Mauser series of Rifles, Short Rifles and Carbines, and once one has accumulated all the basic Models, one can go wild on the variations, right up to the 1960s. Must be the Germanic nature of the Chilean Armed Forces through out its history (Very prussian in outlook) which maintained everything just so.although their navy did allow Ross Rifles to sneak in, in 1920, with the replacement Cruisers from Britain, which had been sequestered in 1914, along with the original Steyr M1912 Rifles, by the Royal Navy. Otherwise everything in the Chilean arsenal was 7mm Mauser until the late 1950s, when they went NATO.Even.3006 Johnson rifles acquired for the Carabineros (Militarised National Gendarmerie) in the late 1940s-early 50s were converted to 7x57 by sleeving the barrels. Hotchkiss, Colt and Vickers Guns, Nambu Chilean M1920s, Madsen LMGs and Cz Vz26 LMGs were all delivered in 7x57 cartridge chambering. Chilean Mauser S Serial Number RangeCarl Gustav Chilean 95 antique status Lead - Posts: 3564 (112909 09:23 PM) Forum Site Moderator Does anyone know in which serial number range the DWM manufactured M95s ceased being antiques Carl HoosierDaddy 1 - Posts: 5600 (112909 10:41 PM) Forum Site Moderator A through K prefix DWMs are.
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