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1948 7.92 Rifle (Origin Unknown) Please Help!

haynespitbullshaynespitbulls Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have been looking for months on what kind of Rifle this is. My search began when I started looking for a bayonet for this rifle.

I have been told it was Yugoslavian, German, or British, but I can not seem to find any Rifles that are remotely close to mine. If there is anyone here who could help us out in any way, it is greatly appreciated.


Here are the links to the pictures.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/haynespitbulls/April2008054.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/haynespitbulls/April2008039.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/haynespitbulls/April2008038.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/haynespitbulls/April2008035.jpg
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    Looks like a Spanish Mauser to me from the receiver ring crest. Cant read it too well, but I think it says La Courona which means its a Spaniard.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Receiver ring photo is out of focus, hard to tell.
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    Yeah its a M43 Spanish Mauser. Here is a twin on the auction side.

    http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=97851702
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  • GarthGarth Member Posts: 381 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    its a spanish mauser probably chambered in 7mm mauser! my dad had two of them!
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    The La Coruna 43 Mauser (if that's what it is, it is awfully dark) was 8mm, though most of its predecessors were 7.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The 1933 Spanish Mauser was chambered in 7mm.
    The 1943 Spanish Mauser was chambered in 8mm.
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  • haynespitbullshaynespitbulls Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    it is stamped with the 7.92 which i am having a hard time finding good bullets. I am wary of buying via auction. Does anyone know where to get good 7.92 bullets from?


    It is a Spanish Mauser from 1948. The links from the 3rd reply look identical to mine. I love the gun no matter what it is worth.
    Thanks for all the help!
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by haynespitbulls
    it is stamped with the 7.92 which i am having a hard time finding good bullets. I am wary of buying via auction. Does anyone know where to get good 7.92 bullets from?


    It is a Spanish Mauser from 1948. The links from the 3rd reply look identical to mine. I love the gun no matter what it is worth.
    Thanks for all the help!


    7.92mm barrels use the standard .323 diameter bullets, the (much) older 7.9mm barrels use the hard to find .318 projectles.
    Now, if by "bullets" you mean loaded ammo / cartridges, than be aware that the terms 7.92x57, 7.92 Mauser, 8mm Mauser and 8x57 all denote the same cartridge.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Your rifle shoots regular 8mm ammo.
    Here is some very accurate military surplus, it is cheap, though it is corrosive:

    http://tinyurl.com/42aqy5


    If you just want to fire a few shots buy a box of Remington or Winchester 8mm hunting ammo. Remington and Winchester are not nearly as powerful as this Yugoslav.

    If you buy the military surplus ammo you have to clean the rifle every time you shoot it or the barrel will rust up.
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  • usmc572usmc572 Member Posts: 25 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This rifle is a Spanish Mauser made at the La Coruna government arsenal; that marking is the most common marking found on receiver rings of 1943 model Mausers. However your rifle was made in 1948 which isn't uncommon because they were made all the way until the mid-1950's. I have a gun emblem book to confirm it so this is definitely a Spanish Mauser (Mauser is a German Rifle however the Spanish received a contract allowing them to make the Mauser) it isn't British but it is Spanish yet a German design rifle.
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