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Mauser Rifle Series
This pages has Mauser Rifles used on film other than Mauser Gewehr 1898 and Karabiner 98k which are the two most popular model seen on screen.
Gewehr 1871/84
The M71/84 was a repeating bolt-action rifle developed from the earlier Gewehr M1871 single-shot rifle designed by Paul and Wilhelm Mauser, and was the last blackpowder Mauser. A tubular 8-round magazine, designed by Alfred von Kropatschek, was added below the barrel. Interestingly, it was loaded from the top of the receiver with the bolt open. The rifle would not last long in service, being replaced by the M1888 Commission rifle just 5 years later.
A variant of the M71/84, chambered in 9.5x60mm was ordered by the Ottoman Empire, becoming the first in a long series of "Turkish" Mausers.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Samurai | Japanese Imperial Army | 2003 |
1891 Mauser Rifle
The M1891 Argentine Contract rifle was developed from the earlier Belgian M1889 which was the first Mauser designed with a single-piece bolt body and firing a smokeless powder cartridge. The M91 did away with the M89's barrel shroud, but in other respects was virtually identical. A cock-on-closing design, it is easily identified by its single-column magazine, which projects down from the stock directly in front of the trigger guard.
The identical M1890 was purchased by the Ottoman Empire.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) | German Imperial Army | 1979 |
Television:
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Riders | George Hamilton | William Randolph Hearst | 1997 |
1893 Spanish Mauser
The M1893 was the first Mauser rifle to incorporate both the non-rotating claw extractor and the staggered-column box magazine developed by Paul Mauser. Unlike other Mauser designs, the bottom of the M1893's bolt face was square, which was believed to be necessary for feeding staggered cartridges. This feature is present on all M1893 Mausers, but was found to be unnecessary and was eliminated from subsequent designs. It fired the high-velocity 7x57mm cartridge developed by Paul Mauser in 1892. Initial production was by Ludwig Loewe & Co. in Berlin; in 1896 the Spanish arsenal at Oviedo took over production. Production of the M1893 lasted until the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War, the rifle was widely used by both Republican and Nationalist forces.
This rifle's performance against United States troops during the Spanish-American war led directly to the development of the American M1903 Springfield
The Ottoman Empire ordered 200,000 M1893 rifles chambered in 7.65x53 Belgian. Each rifle featured a magazine cutoff on the right side of the receiver.
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bullet for the General | Gian Maria Volonté | El Chuncho | 1966 | |
| A Bullet for the General | Lou Castel | Bill 'Niño' Tate | 1966 | |
| A Bullet for the General | Mexican governmental troops and guerrillas | 1966 | ||
| There Be Dragons | Spanish Nationalist and Republican extras | 2011 | ||
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Spanish Nationalist forces | 2012 |
Television:
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Riders | Spanish troops | 1997 |
1894 Swedish Mauser Carbine
The Model 1894 (or more commonly known M94) was a precursor to the M1896 Carl Gustaf Mauser which went into production in 1895, with left over receivers used in the M1896 full sized rifle production. It is noteworthy for its metal endcap and the fact that some later models (like the M94/14) were designed to take either the standard M1914 army bayonet or the M95 Naval bayonet (a large bladed knife).
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Wind and the Lion | German soldiers | 1975 | ||
| There Be Dragons | Wes Bentley | Manolo Torres | 2011 | |
| There Be Dragons | Olga Kurylenko | Ildika | 2011 |
1895 Chilean Mauser
Also known as the Chilean Contract Mauser, or Modelo Mauser Chileno 1895, this rifle was developed from the Spanish M1893 design. A unique feature was a small steel projection on the receiver behind the bolt handle that served as a safety lug; the squared bolt-face of the M1893 was also eliminated.
Chilean Contract rifles were purchased by the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal Republic and used by Boer Commandos during the Second Boer War against the British Empire.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breaker Morant | Boer Commandoes | 1980 |
Television:
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Riders | Spanish troops | 1997 | ||
| Rough Riders | Dale Dye | Colonel Leonard Wood | 1997 |
1896 Swedish Mauser
The last cock-on-closing Mauser action, the major changes included moving the bolt-guide-rib to the bolt body, and the addition of a knurled thumb tab on the cocking piece. The United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway had developed the 6.5x55mm cartridge in 1891 for use in all potential new service rifles before the Mauser design was selected. Production at Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf am Neckar was 1895-1900, and Swedish production at Gustafs stads Gevärsfaktori from 1898-1925. One of the production requirements was that all M96 rifles were made from the same Swedish nickel-copper-vanadium-steel alloy regardless of manufacturer.
Numerous M96 rifles were loaned to Finland for use in the Winter War/Continuation War against the Soviet Union.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Man on the Roof | Suspect | 1976 |
Mauser 98 Sporter
The German-style purpose-built sporter has a ribbed barrel, express sights and a flat "butterknife" style bolt handle, and not a converted military rifle.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamonds Are Forever | Bruce Cabot | Bert Saxby | 1971 | |
| The Sugarland Express | Texas Ranger | 1974 | ||
| Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Police snipers and hitmen | 1976 | ||
| The Long Good Friday | Alan Talbot | Sniper | 1980 | |
| White Hunter Black Heart | Clint Eastwood | John Wilson | 1990 | |
| Public Enemies | Christian Bale | Melvin Purvis | 2009 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Five-O | James MacArthur | Danny "Danno" Williams | 1968-1979 |
Mauser 98AZ Artillery Carbine
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahara | Bedouin scout | 1943 | ||
| The Wind That Shakes The Barley | Cillian Murphy | Damien | 2006 |
1903 Turkish Mauser
The Turkish M1903 rifle was developed from the Gewehr 98. Unlike the Gew. 98, it featured an intermediate-length action, with a bolt and magazine that were .2" shorter than that of the Gew. 98, due to the shorter 7.65x53mm Belgian cartridge. It also had a simple tangent-leaf rear sight, rather than the Lange Visier of the Gew. 98. The rifle retained the earlier M93-pattern bayonet lug on the upper barrel band, allowing it to use bayonets made for the M93 rifles previously purchased. 200,000 rifles were produced from 1903-1905 at Waffenfabrik Mauser in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany. Chambered in 7.65x53mm Mauser.
Beginning in 1933 the Turkish Republic converted these rifles to fire 7.92x57mm JS Mauser, along with M1893s and M1888 Commission rifles. A notch was cut in the receiver ring so the longer cartridge could fit in the magazine. All rifles converted to 7.92x57mm JS were referred to as M1938 regardless of action type.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) | German soldiers | Impersonating Gewehr 98 | 1979 | |
| Gallipoli | Turkish Soldiers | 1981 | ||
| Lighthorsemen, The | Turkish Soldiers and Bedouins | 1987 | ||
| All The King Men | Turkish Soldiers | 1999 | ||
| The Mummy | Arabs | 1999 | ||
| Passchendaele | German soldiers | 2009 |
1908 Brazilian Mauser
The Brazilian M1908 rifle was developed from the Gewehr 98. It featured a simplified tangent-leaf rear sight, and elongated handguard extending from the receiver to the lower barrel band. The bolt, receiver and bayonet lug were left in the white. was manufactured by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken in Berlin and Waffenfabrik Mauser in Orberndorf am Neckar from 1908 until the outbreak of World War I. Chambered for 7x57mm Mauser.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Of God | Gangsters | 2002 | ||
| The Good, the Bad, the Weird | Byung-hun Lee | The Bad | 2008 | |
| The Good, the Bad, the Weird | Various henchmen | 2008 |
1909 Argentine Mauser
A development of the Gewehr 98, it featured a tangent-leaf rear sight rather than the Lange Visier, and a longer handguard that extended from the receiver to the lower barrel band. It also features an auxiliary bayonet lug fastened over the standard Gew. 98 lug. This allowed the use of the M1891 rifle's bayonet on the new rifle. Rifles were produced at Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin, and under license in Argentina. Chambered in 7.65x53mm Mauser.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evita | Argentine soldiers | 1996 | ||
| The Aura | Ricardo Darín | Esteban Espinosa | Sporterized version | 2005 |
| The Aura | Alejandro Awada | Sontag | Sporterized version | 2005 |
1916 Spanish Mauser
The M1916 Spanish Mauser was a short rifle developed from the M1893 Spanish Mauser rifle. It shares the same action, but features a shorter 21 3/4" barrel and bent bolt handle. The rear sight was a Lange Visier-type on the Pattern 1 rifles, and a simple tangent-leaf on the Pattern 2 rifles. Interestingly, the M1916 short rifle and M1893 long rifle were produced concurrently at Oviedo. It was originally chambered in 7x57mm Mauser, however, after development of the CETME rifle, numerous M1916s were re-chambered for 7.62x51mm CETME for use by the Guardia Civil.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Kevork Malikyan | Kazim | 1989 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bors | Spanish Repusblicans | Ep.11 | 1968 | |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sean Patrick Flanery | Indiana Jones | 1992-1994 |
VZ-98/22 Czech Mauser
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lost Battalion | German troops | 2001 |
VZ-24 Czech Mauser
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Stolen Border (Uloupená hranice) | Karel Effa | The sergeant | 1947 | |
| Ladislav H. Struna | Srbek | |||
| Czechoslovak gendarmes, soldiers and German ordners | ||||
| Captain Dabac | Slovak soldiers | 1959 | ||
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Cultist | 1989 |
VZ-98/29 Czech Mauser
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Borys Szyc | Jan Krynicki | 2011 | |
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Polish troops | 2011 |
M24/47 Yugoslavian Mauser
The M24/47 rifle is an intermediate-length Mauser rifle initially produced as the M1924 for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by FN Herstal and Česká Zbrojovka. In 1928 licensed production of the M24 began at the Kragujevac Military Technical Institute. Starting in 1947 the M24 rifles were rebuilt at the Crvena Zastava factory (the former Kragujevac Arsenal); rifles were stamped with the crest of the new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The M24 was placed in storage with the adoption of self-loading rifles, but some saw service in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Many have been imported into the United States.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viva Maria! | Mexican soldiers and rebels | 1965 | ||
| The Wind and the Lion | Sheik Raisuli's men | 1975 | ||
| The Wind and the Lion | Brian Keith | President Roosevelt | 1975 | |
| Force 10 from Navarone | Partisan fighters | 1978 |
1935 Peruvian Mauser
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncommon Valor | Seen among other rifles | 1983 |
M48 Yugoslavian Mauser
The M48 Mauser is a post World War II intermediate-length M98 action, designed in Yugoslavia. Although similar in general appearance to the German Kar98K rifle, it is not a copy but is based on the earlier Yugoslav M24 rifle. The main difference between the M48 and the Kar98K is that the M48 receiver is 1/4" shorter than the standard-length Kar98K. They are usually easily identified by the top handguard which extends behind the rear sight, and ends just in front of the receiver ring. The model number is stamped under the crest: M48 or M48A. Rifles without crest or model number are M48BO models meant for export. M48's are regarded as a military surplus firearm and can be collected in the US at a generally cheap price due to the numbers recently imported from Europe.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Man's Land | Bosnian guide | 2001 |
Television:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falling Skies | Blair Brown | Sonya | 2011 |
M43 Spanish Mauser
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence of Arabia | Turkish soldiers and Arab irregulars | 1962 | ||
| Che Part Two: Guerrilla | Bolivian Guerrilla | 2008 |
Oberndorf Mauser Sporter
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Red House | Rory Calhoun | Teller | 1947 |
Type Zhongzheng Rifle
The Type Zhongzheng rifle is a licensed, Chinese copy of the Mauser Standard Model rifle, the forerunner to the Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle, and was used extensively by both Nationalist and Communist forces during the Second Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese Civil War and finally during the Korean War by the People's volunteer army.
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly (Ji jie hao) | Zhang Hangyu | Gu Zidi | 2007 | |
| Assembly (Ji jie hao) | Communist and Nationalist Chinese soldiers | 2007 | ||
| Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The | General Yang's soldiers | 2008 | ||
| The Founding of a Republic (Jian guo da ye) | 2009 | |||
| City of Life and Death | Nationalist Chinese soldiers | 2009 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7554 | 2011 |
Other Models
Sometimes bolt action rifles are used in films to impersonate Mauser rifles, usually in large period films. This section is specifically for bolt action rifles which are not common enough to merit their own page but are technically not Mauser rifles.
Gewehr 1888
Also known as the Model 1888 Commission Rifle, this rifle was issued to front line German Troops in World War 1 until the Gewehr 98s caught up with production and fully replaced it in 1915. It was issued to troops serving the Ottoman Empire and was maintained by Turkish soldiers well into the 1930s. Though it can be seen outfitting German Troops in any World War 1 film, the rifle was surprisingly not a Mauser, but a Commission designed weapon that was built by various other manufacturers. The Rifle was based on Mannlicher, French Lebel and Mauser elements. When the Germans used it during the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Chinese made an unlicensed copy, the Hanyang 88 (Type 88).
Film:
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The African Queen | German Askari | 1951 | ||
| City of Life and Death | Nationalist Chinese soldiers | 2009 | ||
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows | Jude Law | Dr. Watson | 2011 |