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 models seen on screen.

Gewehr 1871/84

Mauser Gewehr 1871/84 - 11.15x60mmR

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, the M1887 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
Go Tell the Spartans	James Hong	The Old Man		1978
The Last Samurai		Japanese Imperial Army		2003

1891 Mauser Rifle

Mauser 1891 - 7.65x53mm Mauser

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. It featured a 29.1" barrel, ladder-type rear sight, short handguard, and straight-gripped single-piece stock. 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. Chambered in 7.65x53mm Mauser.

The Ottoman Empire purchased 280,000 of the identical M1890 rifles also chambered in 7.65x53mm Mauser.

The M1892 Mauser rifles submitted to the US Army trials was based on this design; each incorporated a large external claw extractor (a feature used on all subsequent Mausers) and some were equipped with magazine cutoffs. The most advanced of these, Rifle No.5, featured a one-piece magazine and triggerguard. Rifles in 7.65x53mm and .30-40 Krag were tested, but the Krag-Jørgensen design was chosen instead.

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

1893 Spanish Mauser - 7x57mm 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. Many of these rifles were later converted to 7.9x57mm by the Turkish Republic and may be seen with straight or pistol-gripped stocks and with-or-without the magazine cutoff box. These are designated M1893/33.

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
La Bandera		Legionnaires		1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer		rebels		1935
Doctor Zhivago		Russian troops		1965
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
Pan's Labyrinth		Spanish Guardia		2006
Pan's Labyrinth		Spanish Maquis		2006
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

Mauser M94/14 Cavalry Carbine (dated 1916) (Carl Gustaf) - 6.5x55mm. The barrel was originally flush with the front of the stock, but a barrel extension was added to comply with US import restrictions.

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

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 shoulder on the tang of the receiver behind the bolt handle that served as a safety lug; the squared bolt-face of the M1893 was also eliminated. While M1895s were originally chambered in 7x57mm Mauser, in the 1950s-60s Chile re-chambered some in 7.62x51mm NATO when they adopted the H&K G3 rifle.

70,000 M1895 rifles were ordered by the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and used by Boer Commandos during the Second Boer War against the British Empire. These rifles were built using the earlier M93-pattern receiver, and as such lack the re-enforcing shoulder on the tang. Roughly 55,000 were delivered before the British began an embargo of Boer arms shipments. The remaining rifles were then sold to Chile.

Mauser 1895 Rifle - 7x57mm Mauser

Mauser 1895 Short Rifle - 7x57mm Mauser

Mauser 1895 Carbine - 7x57mm Mauser

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Wind and the Lion	Sean Connery	Sheikh Rausili	.	1975
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

Mauser 1896/02 Rifle (Carl Gustaf) - 6.5x55mm

Mauser 1896/11 Rifle (Carl Gustaf) - 6.5x55mm

Mauser 1896/38 Rifle (Carl Gustaf) - 6.5x55mm

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 in 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
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter	Jordana Spiro	Cathrine Reece		2000
Beyond the Border		Swedish troops	Some with sniper scopes	2011

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.

German-style Mauser 98 Sporter Model B - 7.92x57mm Mauser

German-style Mauser 98 Sporter Model K - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Mauser 98 Sporter with scope - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Hud				1963
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 Thirty Nine Steps	Ronald Pickup	Bayliss		1980
The Long Good Friday	Alan Talbot	Sniper		1980
Coup de Torchon	Jean-Pierre Marielle	Le Peron	Model K	1981
Coup de Torchon	Philippe Noiret	Lucien Cordier	Model K	1981
Public Enemies	Christian Bale	Melvin Purvis	9.3mm x 57mm	2009

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Hawaii Five-O	James MacArthur	Danny "Danno" Williams		1968-1979
The Sopranos	John Ventimiglia	Artie Bucco	S1.13	1999-2007
The Sopranos	Steven R. Schirripa	Bobby Bacala	S3.11	1999-2007

Mauser 98AZ Artillery Carbine

Mauser 98AZ Artillery Carbine - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The second carbine based on the Gewehr 98, the Karabiner 98a was adopted in 1908. Although referred to as a carbine, with its 23.6" barrel it is really more of a short rifle. Unlike the Gew. 98, it was built on a small-ring receiver (like the pre-98 actions), which saved weight. It features a turned-down bolt, full-length handguard, a guarded front sight, side-mounted sling, and a distinctive stacking hook just below the upper barrel band. It was widely issued to German artillery troops and saw extensive service in World War I and in the postwar Reichswehr.

The rifle was replaced in the early 1920s by the misleadingly-named Karabiner 98b, which was actually a full-length rifle very similar to the Gew. 98, but with a turned-down bolt, tangent-leaf sight, and side-mount sling.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Night Train to Munich	Basil Radford	Charters		1940
Night Train to Munich	Naunton Wayne	Caldicott		1940
Sahara	Frank Lackteen	Sheik Ali		1943
The Wind That Shakes The Barley	Cillian Murphy	Damien		2006
War Horse		German Troops		2011
Stalingrad		German soldiers		2013

1903 Turkish Mauser

Turkish Mauser 1903 - 7.65x53mm 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 1930 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. M1903 rifles converted to 7.9x57mm were referred to as M1903/30.

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

1907 Chinese Mauser

German-service Chinese M1907 Mauser - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The Chinese Model 1907 was a development of the Mauser Model 1904, a commercial military model in turn developed from the Gewehr 98. It features a 29.1" barrel, tangent-leaf rear sight, half-length handguard, and narrow upper barrel band. It was originally chambered in a proprietary 6.8x58mm Chinese cartridge, but some in 7x57mm were also purchased. The M1907 was manufactured at Waffenfabrik Mauser in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, and Kung Hsien arsenal in Henan Province, China. When WW1 broke out the Germans seized all M1907 rifles still in the country and re-barrelled them for 7.9x57mm.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen		German soldiers		2010

1908 Brazilian Mauser

Mauser 1908 - 7x57mm 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. The M1908 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

Argentine Mauser 1909 - 7.65x53mm Mauser

Argentine Mauser M1909/26 Cavalry Carbine - 7.65 x 53mm Mauser

A development of the Gewehr 98, the M1909 Argentine contract 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, short rifles, and cavalry carbines were produced at Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin, and carbines under license in Argentina at Fabrica Militar de Armas Portatiles (F.M.A.P.) division of the Direccion General de Fabricaciones Militares (D.G.F.M.). 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
There Be Dragons	Wes Bentley	Manolo Torres	M1909 Cavalry Carbine	2011
There Be Dragons	Olga Kurylenko	Ildiko	M1909 Cavalry Carbine	2011

1916 Spanish Mauser

M1916 Spanish Mauser - 7x57mm Mauser. Note bent bolt handle and tangent leaf sight.

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
La Bandera	Robert Le Vigan	Fernando Lucas		1935
Lost Command		French paratroops, Viet Minh troops, Algerians		1966
A Professional Gun (Il mercenario)	Tony Musante	Paco Roman		1968
A Professional Gun (Il mercenario)		Mexican soldiers, rebels		1968
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Kevork Malikyan	Kazim		1989
Libertarias	Ana Belén	Pilar		1996
	Victoria Abril	Floren
	Blanca Apilánez	Aura
	Laura Mañá	Concha
	Joan Crosas	Boina
	Jorge Sanz	Worker Son
	José Sancho	Worker Father
		Anarchists

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

BRNO Vz.98/22 Czech Mauser - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The Czech Vz.98/22 rifle was the first Mauser design produced by the then-new Czechoslovak State Armaments Works in Brno. After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles had prohibited Imperial Germany from producing military arms, so the newly established nation of Czechoslovakia purchased an entire Gewehr 98 production line from Mauser Werke, complete with tooling and all available spare parts. 40,000 of these rifles were made and issued to the Czechoslovak Army in 1923. In 1927 the Republic of Turkey ordered 10,000 new Vz.98/22s. When the Vz.24 short rifle replaced the 98/22s in Czech service, those Vz.98/22s were sold to Turkey and China. Chambered in 7.92x57mm JS Mauser.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Lost Battalion		German troops		2001

VZ-24 Czech Mauser

Czech vz. 24 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Czech vz. 16/33 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Based on the M98 action, the Vz.24 rifle was designed to replace the Vz.98/22 in Czechoslovakian service. It featured a 600mm (23.5") barrel, tangent-leaf rear sight, and full-length handguard. It was produced at several factories in Czechoslovakia from 1924-1941, and exported to dozens of countries worldwide. After the German annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, the rifle was adopted alongside the Kar98k and production continued for the Wehrmacht under the designation Gewehr 24(t). It was chambered in 7x57mm, 7.65x53mm, and 7.92x57mm depending on the production contract. The shortened, lightened version is called carbine VZ-33.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Stolen Border (Uloupená hranice)	Karel Effa	The sergeant	VZ 33	1947
	Ladislav H. Struna	Srbek
		Czechoslovak gendarmes, soldiers and German ordners
The Silent Barricade	Jaroslav Prucha	Hosek		1949
		Czech soldiers and insurgents
Wolves' Lairs (Vlcie diery)		Slovak soldiers and partisans		1948
The Unconquered (Neporazení)	Gutav Heverle	Cpl. Ríha		1958
	Jaroslav Mareš	PVT. Pepík
	Jirí Sovák	Pvt. Jarda
	Martin Tapák	Pvt. Janko
	Josef Vinklár	Pvt. Mirek
	Vladimír Krska	Pvt. Tonek
		Czechoslovakian soldiers
Captain Dabac		Slovak soldiers		1959
Smugglers of Death	Radovan Lukavský	Nprap. SNB Václav Kot		1959
Smugglers of Death	Jirí Vala	Strm. SNB Karel Zeman		1959
The Assassination (Atentát)		Czechoslovak soldiers		1964
Penicka a Paraplícko		Policemen of standby section		1964
Cast a Giant Shadow		Haganah troops		1966
Mr. Freedom		Freedom agent		1969
Hot Winter (Horká zima)	Alexej Gsöllhofer	Slávek		1973
		Slovak insurgents
A Police Commissioner Accuses (Un comisar acuza)		Prison guards		1974
Revenge (Revansa)		Iron Guard legionnaires, Romanian soldiers		1978
Go and Don't Say Goodbye (Chod a nelúc sa)	Eva Jakoubková	Júlia Cafíková		1979
		Slovak gendarmes and insurgents
The Duel (Duelul)		Romanian police		1981
Under Fire		Nicaraguan Rebel		1983
Shades of Fern (Stín kapradiny)	Petr Skarke	Gendarme		1984
Shades of Fern (Stín kapradiny)	Vítezslav Jandák	Gendarme		1984
The World Knows Nothing (Svet nic neví)		Czechoslovak troops		1987
The Tenth Man		German troops		1988
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself	Viliam Polónyi	Zboncák	VZ-33	1989
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself		Czechoslovak soldiers		1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade		Cultist		1989
Life Is Beautiful		German soldier		1997
Zelary	Jan Tríska	Old Gorcík	VZ-33	2003
Zelary	Juraj Hrcka	Vojta Juriga	VZ-33	2003
Zelary		Gendarmes		2003
Stalingrad		German soldier	VZ-33	2013

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Date
Smrt sa volá Engelchen		The partisans		1960
The Sinful People of Prague	Jaroslav Satoranský	Gendarme Tumpach	"Otisky prstu"	1968-1970
	Otto Šimánek	Gendarme Kostroun	"Černé rukavice"
	Vlastimil Hašek	Gendarme Kozel	"Černé rukavice"
	Cestmír Randa	Gendarme Vodsed'álek	"Špion přijede v sedm"
		Gendarmes and soldiers
Legend of the Living Dead (Legenda o živých mrtvých)		German soldiers and partisans		1971

VZ-98/29 Persian Mauser

Czech Persian Mauser 98/29 with bayonet 8x57mm

A variant of the Vz.24 chosen for the Iranian armed forces of Shah Reza Palavi in 1929, it was manufactured at Brno. The rifle features a 29" barrel, a handguard that extends from the receiver to the lower barrel band, and a tangent-leaf rear sight. The front sight also has distinctive "ears" on either side of the blade to protect it from damage. This rifle served until 1960, when it was replaced in Iranian service by the US M1 Garand. It is chambered in 7.92x57mm Mauser.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Battle of Warsaw 1920	Borys Szyc	Jan Krynicki		2011
Battle of Warsaw 1920		Polish troops		2011

WZ29 Polish Mauser

Polish WZ29 Mauser - 8x57mm

Polish repeating rifle, based on Mauser G98 system, and the very similar Czechoslovak vz 24. Production of new weapons was starting in 1930 at the National Arms Factory in Radom continued until September 1939. Rifle was manufactured in two versions, the lock handle infantry and cavalry of the simple lock with handle folded down. Produced a total of approximately 264 000 kbk wz.29 (including a large part for export to Spain and Afghanistan). After the September Campaign , they were used by the guerrillas of the Polish Underground. Acquired copies wz.29 rifle were also used by the Wehrmacht as the Gewehr 298 (p).

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
How I Unleashed World War II	Marian Kociniak	Pvt Franek Dolas		1970
How I Unleashed World War II		Polish soldiers		1970

Video Games:

Title	Appears As	Mods	Note	Date
Forgotten Hope				2003

1935 Peruvian Mauser

Mauser 1935 (Modelo 1935) Rifle Peruvian FN Contract - .30-06

A variant of the FN M1924 short rifle adopted by the Peruvian Army in 1935. These rifles featured a tangent-leaf rear sight and a front sight with sheet-metal "ears" on either side of the post. The handguard extending from the receiver to the lower barrel band. These rifles were originally chambered in 7.65x53mm Mauser, however, after World War II Peru acquired surplus M1 Garand rifles from the US, and decided to standardize all their rifles in US .30-'06 Springfield. M1935 rifles had their chambers reamed out to take the longer cartridge.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Uncommon Valor			Seen among other rifles	1983

1936 Mexican Mauser

Mexican M1936 Mauser - 7x57mm Mauser

The M1936 Mexican Mauser short rifle was manufactured at Fábrica Nacional de Armas (National Arms Factory) in Mexico City from 1936 to 1954. It used a unique intermediate-length small-ring M98 action with a turned-down bolt handle. It also incorporated some elements of the US Springfield M1903 in its design; a knurled knob on the cocking piece allowed the bolt to be cocked without the manipulation of the bolt, and the upper and lower barrel bands. In 1954 the design was altered to .30-'06, and an adjustable aperture sight copied from the US M1903A3 was added to the receiver bridge. This variant is designated M1954.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Guns of Juana Gallo	Luis Aguilar	Arturo Ceballos Rico		1961
The Guns of Juana Gallo	Ignacio López Tarso	Pioquinto		1961
The Guns of Juana Gallo		Mexican soldiers and rebels		1961

M43 Spanish Mauser

Spanish Mauser M43 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The Spanish M43 rifle was based on the Kar98k and produced at the La Coruna arsenal from 1944-1957. Unlike the Kar98k, it featured a straight bolt handle and a handguard that extended from the receiver almost to the upper barrel band. Like the M1909 Argentine Contract, the M43 featured an auxiliary bayonet lug attached to the convention Gew. 98-style lug. This allowed the rifle to mount the older bayonets designed for the M1893 and M1916 rifles. Rifles manufactured for the Spanish Air Force did not have the auxiliary lug. It is chambered in 7.92x57mm Mauser.

Many of these rifles were converted to the FR-8 model after the adoption of the CETME rifle in 1957.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Lawrence of Arabia		Turkish soldiers and Arab irregulars		1962
Lost Command		French paratroops, Viet Minh troops, Algerians		1966
Che Part Two: Guerrilla		Bolivian Guerrilla		2008
Stalingrad		German soldiers		2013

M48 Yugoslavian Mauser

Yugoslavian M48 Mauser - 7.92x57mm 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
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije)	Tonko Lonza	Blago		1981
The Fall of Italy (Pad Italije)		The partisans		1981
No Man's Land		Bosnian guide		2001

Television:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Falling Skies	Blair Brown	Sonya		2011
Our Mothers, Our Fathers	Tom Schilling	Friedhelm Winter		2013

CETME FR-8

CETME FR-8 7.62x51mm NATO

After Spain adopted the CETME Rifle in 1957, many M1916 and M43 Mauser rifles were converted to 7.62x51mm NATO to serve as training rifles for new recruits. M43 rifles so converted were designated CETME FR-8. Each rifle was fitted with an 18.5" barrel in 7.62x51mm NATO, equipped with a birdcage flash hider and CETME-style front sight. Beneath the barrel was a fake gas tube, which contained the cleaning rod and kit. At the front of the tube was a bayonet lug for mounting the new CETME rifle's bayonet. An adjustable aperture sight was installed on the receiver bridge, to provide a similar sight picture to the actual CETME rifle.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Rundown		Henchman		2003

Oberndorf Mauser Sporter

Oberndorf Mauser Sporter - 9x57mm

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Red House	Rory Calhoun	Teller		1947
The Sugarland Express				1974
The Smile of the Fox	Steve Bond	Martinez	With a scope, suppressed	1992

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
The Avengers	James Villiers	Simon Trent	"Small Game for Big Hunters"(S4E16)	1961-1969

Type Zhongzheng Rifle

Type Zhongzheng rifle - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Type Zhongzheng rifle with turned-down Kar98k style bolt handle - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The Type Zhongzheng rifle, also known as the Type-24 is a licensed, Chinese copy of the Mauser Standard Model 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. Production began in 1935 at the Gongxian Arsenal, and would eventually spread to three other rifle factories across China.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Niu Tie	A´Gui		1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Shugui Shi	Dan Zhu		1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Ben Niu	Xiao Pang		1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)		The local militia, The Chinese Red Army		1961
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
City of Life and Death	Liu Ye	Lieutenant Lu Jianxiong		2009
City of Life and Death	Zhao Yisui	Shunzi		2009
City of Life and Death		Nationalist Chinese soldiers		2009
Death and Glory in Changde	Wenkang Yuan	Capt. Feng Baohua		2010
Death and Glory in Changde	Mengwei Xie	Er Hu, Miao youth		2010
Death and Glory in Changde		Chinese soldiers		2010
Wind Blast (Xi Feng Lie)	Yu Xia	Zhang Ning		2010
Shanghai		Chinese resistance fighters		2010
The Flowers of War		Nationalist Chinese soldiers		2011
The Flowers of War	Dawei Tong	Major Li	with a sniper scope	2011
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)		Imperial Japanese soldiers		2011
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (Jian hu nu xia Qiu Jin)	You-Nam Wong	Chen Boping		2011
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (Jian hu nu xia Qiu Jin)		Chinese rebels		2011

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

Turkish Gew.88/05/35 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This is a movie armory weapon.

Gewehr 1888 in original configuration - 7.9x57mmI Patronen-88.

Hanyang 88 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This weapon saw service in the Sino-Japanese wars and the Chinese Civil War.

The Model 1888 Commission Rifle was the German Empire's response to the French adoption of the Lebel 1886. It was designed by the German Army's Rifle Testing Commission, and combined elements of Mauser and Mannlicher rifle design. It fed from a Mannlicher-type 5-round single-column magazine loaded with an en-bloc clip. The bolt featured two opposing lugs on the front of the bolt body, with the bolt handle forming a safety lug. The barrel was covered with a tubular steel jacket that threaded onto the receiver ring, with a ladder-type rear sight. The cartridge designed for the rifle was the Gewehrpatrone-1888 7.9x57mmI, predecessor to the 7.9x57mmIS Mauser. It featured a 225gr round-nose bullet .318" in diameter.

In 1905 the German Army adopted the Gewehrpatrone-1905 with a 154gr-spitzer bullet .323" in diameter. To supplement the Gewehr 98, many Gew.88 rifles were converted to safely fire the P.05 cartridge. The magazine was modified to feed from Mauser stripper clips. These rifles were referred to as Gew.88/05.

Turkey purchased large numbers of Gew.88 rifles during the First World War. These rifles remained in service with the Turkish Republic, and many were modified during the 1930's update program. The barrel jackets were removed, and a tangent-leaf sight and wooden handguard fitted. The straight-grip stock was replaced with a pistol-gripped stock, and an M93-type bayonet lug to mount the standard Turkish bayonet. These conversions are designated Gew.88/05/35, 1935 being the first year of conversion.

An unlicensed copy of the Gew.88 was adopted by the Qing Dynasty for their Newly Created Army in 1895. This rifle was produced at the Hanyang Arsenal as Type-88 rifle, and would serve Imperial, Nationalist, and Communist forces all the way through to the end of the Chinese Civil War. In 1904 the design was modified, and the Gew.88's tubular barrel shroud and ladder-type rear sight were eliminated and a Mauser-style tangent-leaf sight and half-length handguard were substituted.

Film:

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
La Bandera	Jean Gabin	Pierre Gilieth		1935
La Bandera	Raymond Aimos	Marcel Mulot		1935
La Bandera		Legionnaires		1935
The African Queen		German Askari		1951
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Xijuan Zhu	Wu Qionghua	Hanyang 88	1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Mei Xiang	Fu Honglian	Hanyang 88	1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Shugui Shi	Dan Zhu	Hanyang 88	1961
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)		The local militia, Chinese Red Army	Hanyang 88	1961
Last Emperor		Kuomintang troops	Hanyang 88	1987
City of Life and Death		Nationalist Chinese soldiers		2009
Let the Bullets Fly	Wen Jiang	Pocky Zhang	Hanyang 88 carbine	2010
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Jude Law	Dr. Watson		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Robert Downey Jr.	Sherlock Holmes		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Paul Anderson	Colonel Sebastian Moran		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Alexandre Carril	Twin		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Victor Carril	Twin		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Noomi Rapace	Madam Simza Heron		2011
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows		Meinhard guards		2011
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)	Peter Ho	Mu Liangfeng	Hanyang 88	2011
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)	Song Jia	Liu Yan	Hanyang 88	2011
Emden Men		German Sailors		2012

G.98/40

FEG G.98/40 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The Gewehr 98/40 was the last in a line of Mannlicher turn-bolt rifles manufactured at Fegyver És Gépgyár of Budapest. It was based on the earlier Puska 35M in 8x56mmR, the standard service rifle of the Hungarian Army. A shortage of Kar98k rifles in the Wehrmacht resulted in modification of the 35M as a substitute-standard. The rifle was re-chambered to 7.92x57mm Mauser, a Mauser-type staggered-column box magazine fed by stripper-clips replaced the en-bloc Mannlicher system, the bolt handle was bent, a M98-pattern bayonet lug was fitted, and the sights altered to resemble those of the Kar98k. It was adopted into German service as the G.98/40, and in Hungarian service the rifle was designated Puska 43M.

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Date
Mission: Impossible	Steven Hill	Dan Briggs	"Wheels" (S01E07)	1966
Mission: Impossible		various guards		1966-196777
Mission: Impossible		various guards		1967-1968
Mission: Impossible	Greg Morris	Barney Collier	"Trial by Fury" (S02E24)	1968
Star Trek: Voyager	Mark Deakins	Hirogen SS Officer	"The Killing Game" (Season 4, Ep.18,19)	1998
Star Trek: Voyager		German Soldiers	"The Killing Game" (Season 4, Ep.18,19)	1998