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“My friend is trying to sell his Spanish-made mauser from the Spanish Revolution.”
“The mauser is a great distance gun also that is inexpensive. the 9mm pistol lacks stopping power but ammo is cheap.”
“Next day at noon we began to clamber down to the level of the railway line, and found ourselves in undisturbed possession, after so prolonged and costly a bombardment called forth by a single, stubborn mauser.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“Yet the owner of the aforesaid pig and poultry was out on commando, his mauser charged with a messenger of death, which any moment might wing its way to any one of us.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“Now, after nearly forty years of uttermost neighbourliness, the Orange Free State, with machine gun and mauser hurls back the gift once so reluctantly accepted, and forces us to recall what now they still more reluctantly surrender.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“When with a sad smile he pointed out to me "the ravages of war" on his verandah floor my politeness again came to the rescue, and I said nothing about that lovely little mauser of his, which an hour before I had been curiously examining at our mess breakfast table.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“A specially influential Boer prisoner told me he himself had been present at many such burials, when 250 cases of mauser ammunition were thus secreted in one place, and then a similar quantity in another, and I have it on the most absolute authority possible that when the war began the Boers possessed not less than 70,000,000 rounds of ball cartridge, and”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“This young predikant with more of prudence, and perchance more of honour, recollected next morning that though, as he had truly said, he had no more weapons in the house, he had a beautiful mauser carbine hidden in his garden.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“These local complainers asserted that if every surrendered burgher had been compelled to bring in not a rusty sporting rifle, but a good mauser, a good supply of cartridges and a good horse, the Boers would much sooner have reached the end of their resources.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
“From the top of a cinder heap a few farewell mauser bullets were fired at our scouts, and then as usual our foemen fled.”
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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chained_bear "The German marksmen had a reputation for hawk-like concentration and stubborn, sleepless patience.... Their rifle was the Mauser 98. It was actually called 'the Sniper,' and is considered one of the most successful bolt-action designs ever produced."
--David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 266 May 13, 2008