TUR - Mauser 1893

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History
In 1887 was in Turkey, introduced into the armament repeating rifle Mauser 1887 caliber 9,5x60R. The contract between the Turkish government and the firm Waffenwerke Mauser was the equal of half a million rifles and 50 thousand carbines. The Turkish government at the time the treaty established two interesting points. Mauser company was obliged, after a period of performance of the contract, to inform the Turkish side about all the new patents, applied to any Mauserově gun and Turkey designs dedicated the right to require the application of these patents to even nepřevzatých guns M1887. The second point was, that if, during the performance of the contract, the German army will implement a new rifle system Mauser, Turkey can demand the delivery of these new rifles, instead of the not yet delivered M1887.
These points of the treaty for the first time ran out of the fulfillment already in 1889, when the belgian army to the ordnance has introduced a rifle Mauser 1889 caliber - the 7.65 mm and using cartridges filled with smokeless powder. From the decision of the Turkish government was in the year 1890 the production of model 1887 discontinued after the 220 thousand units and subject to further performance of the contract has already been modified "belgian" rifles, called Model 1890.
The second time occurred to the fulfillment of these points in the year 1893, when Spain introduced in the arsenal of the rifle Mauser 1893, komorovanou for charge 7x57. The Turkish side is the design of the gun so much that decided to stop the supply rifle M1890 and the introduction of modified Spanish rifles, M1893.

From the Spanish original is Turkish rifle M1893 differed primarily used charge 7,65x53 mm. The other more noticeable differences was operated manually zádržka rounds on the right side of the breech. This zádržka could reduce the location in the clip below the level of the bottom point, the conclusion and the fact that the tray could knock out of the activity; the rifle could then function as a one-shot. It was the only mass-produced rifle on the charge, stuffed with smokeless dust, that such a mechanism should have. The last difference was the rounded, upward protruding, the wing on a bracket the conclusion. This wing when charging přidržovalo cartridge belt.
Turkey ordered a total of 201 100 rifles M1993, which were all made in Mauserově of the mother plant in Oberndorf.

Design
The Turkish rifle Mauser 1893 is a refresher gun with swivel odsuvným conclusion. Bullets are stored in double-row, fixed the mailbox, located in front of the trigger guard and the trigger. The box is filled from the top by charging the tape.

The main parts of the rifle are: the Barrel with sights, case conclusion, conclusion, gas -, and stock.

Barrel length 740 mm is provided with four right-handed grooves with a constant pitch of 250 mm. On the barrel is also soldered the base of the visor.

The barrel is in the back screwed into the breech that connects all the essential parts of weapons in a single unit. In case the conclusion is also moving conclusion. The rear part of the breech is the so-called bridge, in which the front side are vyfrézovány cutouts for the deployment of charging the tape. On the left side of the bridge with a screw fastened spring-loaded bracket the conclusion, which forms the rear stop conclusion. On the right side of the housing is pivotally stored spring-loaded, manually operated, zádržka tray.

The conclusion consists of závěrnice, extractors, ring extractors, a firing pin, the percussion spring, striker nuts, caps, stud caps with a spring and a fuse.
In závěrnici are facing two locking barbs and to the right of her outgoings equal to the crank end. At the head of závěrnice is an opening for firing pin the firing pin and on the right side of the rotary extractor.
The firing pin is threaded through the drum spring, and at whose rear end is a bayonet joint deployed úderníková matrix, which has at the bottom of the bar with the bevel, which corresponds to the screw surface in the viewport závěrnice. When turning závěrnice left is úderníková matrix odtlačována backward and thus is stretched by a drum spring. At the bottom of the moldings striker nut is the claw, which is used to capture cog of the sear.
The individual parts of the conclusion connects the enclosure, in which is stored a fuse. Křidélková fuse has three positions - left disarmed, up to ensure, and when the position of the wings fuse to the right is ensured and in addition blocked the movement of conclusion.
Trigger system, placed in a pouch the conclusion consists of the trigger with the pin, the trigger spring and the sear with the pin. The spring pushes the spoušťovou the lever up, where your cog captures úderníkovou nut. Pressing the shutter button will lower the rear of the sear, claw comes out of the shot and úderníková matrix is released. After the release of pressure on the trigger to spoušťová lever returns to its original position.

A gas-whose body forms a single unit with the trigger guard of the trigger, is the two screws from the bottom screwed to the case conclusion. The bottom of the mailbox is to the body attached with spring-loaded pin. In the bottom of the clipboard is inserted folded flat spring, which pushes up the feeder rounds. The bullets are in a box stored in a block pattern in two rows.

Butt and nadpažbí are made of full wood. Case conclusion is the barrel attached with two continuous screws, which also connect the housing with the cartridge box. The barrel is the barrel attached with two hlavňových sleeves.

Technical details
Caliber - 7.65 mm
Hub - 7,65x53
Length - 1230 mm (L. Olson reported 1234 mm)
Length with bayonet - 1477 until 1754 mm (depending on the bodáku)
Empty weight - 4.1 kg (L. Olson notes 4.0 kg)
Barrel length - 740 mm
The number of grooves in the barrel - 4
Pitch bore - 250 mm
The sense of pitch - right
The depth of grooves - 0.13 mm
The width of the grooves - 4.2 mm
The capacity of the cartridge box - 5 rounds
The range of looks - from 250 to 2000 m

the Production and labeling of
The production of the Turkish rifles, Mauser 1893 was only in the race Waffenwerke Mauser in Oberndorf over the Neckar. The total was made ordered 201 100 weapons.
The Turkish rifles, Mauser 1893 were on the left side of the breech marked with the brand name "[also]Waffenwerke Mauser, Oberndorf a./N.“, of course, conducted in Arabic script. The entire text was inserted between two six-pointed stars. Before the brand name was embossed year of construction, again in Arabic numerals and in addition, according to the islamic calendar (the year 1893 of the christian calendar corresponds to the year 1309 calendar islamic)..
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