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A database of serial numbers is being maintained as a research project. Add To the Turkish Mauser Serial Number Database. You can identify Turkish long Mauser as a prior 1898 by the large receiver without a notch towards the magazine. That is incorrect.Ī Quick and Dirty Guide: Ottoman/Turkish Rifles. Guns with long extractors have lower serial numbers than guns with short extractors, cone hammers have lower serials than large ring hammers, which in turn have lower serials than small ring hammers, 1.

But roughly speaking, features changed sequentially. Mauser was sloppy about updating the illustrations. This was either blatant deception - the cone hammers only lasted until production reached the 1. A German- language instruction manual with a cone hammer illustrated on the cover claims that 6. Sometimes, later production guns were given some of those numbers which had been skipped earlier. The highest serial number in my database, as of March 2.
