History of WWI Primer 110: Ottoman Mauser 1903 Documentary 

Mauser: Which type and year would you like? Ottomans: Yes

? Coulda swore I watched this several hours ago... Will watch and like again. Both episodes.

That Turkish rifle looks a delight!

I have the barreled receiver of a 1893 Ottoman Mauser. It is converted unfortunately, but as a wall hanger for a guy with no friends that would know the difference, its not a huge loss

Funnily enough I bought an M1903 Mauser from a friend about two years ago, which I was able to identify thanks to this video! Although it was a Praguian Mauser given to the Ottomans because it has the screwed on bridge extension. Sadly it had been sporterized slightly, the stock is still in pristine condition, however the tangent sight was replaced with a 1.5-20x Simmons scout scope, and it had been rechambered in 7.62x51NATO (I used a lot of experimentation to see what it was chambered in and remote fired it at the range with a string the first time I put 7.62 into it) I traded it to a friend back in April for an early war sporterized Type 99 Arisaka, he got a nice shooter and I got my weeb gun.

I was wondering where the parts for my m38 Turkish Mauser came from. It’s basically this rifle with a new receiver and barrel. Same bands, bayonet lug and bolt

Loved the music while Mae shooting.

you can reach out to the international studies department of Tel Aviv University. They have someone who is fluent in the late Ottoman Script and does research in it. She can give you an accurate translation.

Hello, just discovered this channel from your Turkish Mauser videos and your videos are great! By the way, I don't know you guys find out the meaning of writing on the rifle but if you didn't, the part written in Ottoman Turkish says "Obrendorf'da Mavzer Silah Fabrikası" which means "Mauser Weapon Factory in Obrendorf (or Oberndorf I suppose)".

This really helped me ID what I have. Ends up, it’s a 1893 Turk Mauser

I’m a history professor and a PhD. I have been collecting historical firearms since I was 24. The most recent of these firearms to join my collection was a Mauser C 96 that I paid $3,799 for.

what could you do to make a mauser 98 terrible? bubba laugs says hold beer sporterized

Someone needs to remind Othias that British combat against the Ottomans wasn’t just restricted to Gallipoli, they faced each other right across the Middle East region.

Yay! Ottoman AND Chinese guns! I love the history of these exports!

Thank you so much for this video i recently just purchased a Turkish Mauser they rechambered to 8mm Mauser this video was very informative cause I wasn't very knowledgeable about it tbh

Yeah, as a bike enthusiast I also understand the dreaded scent of vanilla...

Along with the intermediate length receiver, and tall clip bridge, these Mausers are unique in having the large receiver ring paired with the small diameter barrel shank of the smal ring Mausers. I've read that this was done to allow Turkish arsenals to only deal with one barrel type.

The script on the rifle translates to "Oberndorf Mauser Armed Fabrication"

Great vid my dude, just acquired a 1903 Turk Mauser a few days ago at the time of this comment

My german grandfather who was in ww2 in the wermacht and also had a gun shop for 40 years always taught that you should pull the rifle into your shoulder with your left hand (if shooting right handed) and that the trigger finger hand should only rest on the grip to squeeze the trigger and should not in any way be used to pull the rifle back into the shoulder. Try it!

Bayonets also ended up as war trophies in many cases, being easier to take home than whole rifles.

@ 3:41 it was made in 1905 *seconds later* Excellent! you know about the Rumi calendar! :D

My last name is Mavzer translation of the gun Mauser. Yeah my great grandfather loved that gun

They are not cheap. I bought mine for $450. Years ago, I had a VZ 24, from Slovakia and back then in 1995, I paid $300 that one was full of cosmoline, well I gave it to my brother with the promise he will keep it.Once I returned from the war in Iraq I find out he had sold them, along with a Swedish Mauser. Never again!! This one is for me to keep..Mausers are great rifles, I found the one I presently purchased at a gun shop when I was looking to purchase the elusive 1903 Springfield which the gun shop had Sold just few days prior of my purchase.

Good afternoon from Greece Othias and team :) nice video as always, unfortunately my relatives were on the receiving end of the this rifle.

that opening tune is the most soothing sound.

WD40 the enemy of the bicycle world too. Thanks for all these historical videos.

Very lucky to have one of these. Mine though has an inscription in English with the Turkish crescent stamped on. It also has a kar98 bolt disassembly port on the stock.

Just caught up to this episode, and I am reminded of Ned &Benny on ESPN (when there was only one). What a pleasure to invite y'all into my living room. Thanks

3 years late, and unfortunately 7 days since I was working at a gun show getting rid of some milsurps , I saw one of these 03 rifles, and it was pristine. Talk about wish id known.Somehow I will track it down.... Yeah left arm muscles kinda hot, respectively as you said😂

Well done and informative!

I can not await the Swedish Mauser episode!😍

Nice shooting, Mae...

So Mauser invented the 308 Winchester long before NATO existed

Can you put a gew 98 bolt on one of these?

Rare one...nice crest or markinngs

Were they Beechwood like the later variants? I know they acquire tons of it from the Caucasus and Balkan regions. Not pretty but strong as steel. Do they have the "straight-up" safety position for the bolt lock and a not the safest by today's standard "half safe, half ready" position? I think at straight up, the bolt will open to load or unload but will not fire while leaving it a click with one thumb away from go mode. I used it when I was set up for my shots waiting for the game to take that one last step from behind a tree or angle away a bit with constant eye contact. Kinda like the M1911 thumb sweep down safety. Neat. I wouldn't ask with it as it's spring lugged and can be bumped off easily but war implements were different, and its a thumb and forefinger full off from full-on maneuver and if that's not to be done until the fire decision is made, I can appreciate a quick right thumb flip done from center ready while fingering to the trigger when the Hun Whitetail is glassing you and deciding he should have done the same. The left thumb push up and in on the Steyr is a slick move too for sure. I rarely rifle hunt, but when I do, I head to the 800 acres of dairy farm we leave open to the public and just take an ungodly old and large war rifle, shoot nothing and use it as a conversation piece to see the folks I only see yearly on openers. The nest days are when they give me permission to hunt there or use one of 'their blinds" lol. I let it go, usually, they run into somebody else that says "Hey how's Dick's Grandson doing? Saw you talking to him." We laugh it off and have a beer usually unless they are total outta town assholes. Gotta be careful who you tell to FO in small towns, everybody is related, or I'm trying to get related to one of their own to speak the truth lamo.

Can't find any info on what the Turks in Galacia where issued with, prior to re-arming with captured Mosins. Was it this or the M1893?

Othias teaches us that WD40 makes action sticky if it’s tight but not so much when it’s sloppy. 😳

A Mauser 98 that's bad? How about the original Kar.98 adopted in the 1900s, that the German army abandoned because it was far too short and caused a number of issues? Of course, finding one of those for the show might be a problem.

Thanks for the correction

One rifle to rule them all.

Are baronets hard to find and/or collectible in the US now? When I was a teen I remember one surplus store in San Francisco had what I believe were WW1 baronets by the hundreds just thrown into bins.

We will see one more Mauser. My money is on the Model 1912 made by Steyr for some south American countries around the time "war were declared"(tm).

I own a M38 Turkish Mauser chambered in 7.92x57mm.

Good review of another version of iconic rifle. I found one small problem in this episode: look closely at caliber info (1:52) - it's 7.65 in header and 8mm in infographic (not sure if weight and speed is correct or not). How to make Mauser terrible? Germans answered this question long ago, when they introduced volkssturm rifle, based on K98 pattern.

What's the revolver the guy second from left at 2:58 is wearing in his belt? Is that a Gasser or Webley type lever on the right side of it, or simply a rearward-opening loading gate as on the The Chamelot-Delvigne 11mm Modele 1873 or similar? He actually appears to be carrying TWO revolvers, ready for some supposed ‘Macedonian shooting’.

Guys love a beefy left arm. Like Trogdor.

Hmm are you guys feuding with inrangetv? It felt like you were trying not to say the name of their channel Karl is A bit abrasive and weird But gun Jesus is cool

Would a 1905 stock fit a 1893 Ottoman Mauser?

Dejaview :-)

Seeing these patern mauser is making wonder about a 7mm mauser I own, it's got a 98 action, takes model 93 style stripper clips, got a straight bolt handle and an H band and 98 style bayonet lug, according to the person I brought it from it was used in the Anglo Boer war from 1899-1902. It also have a tangent rear sight but without the 50 m clicks and marked on the receiver with Deutsche waffen und munitions Berlin, no other markings except the serial number and C 0.7mm on the left side of the rear sight. Any ideas?

So I have what appears to bea Mauser made Gewehr 98 in 7.92 but it has Turkish markings. How common is that?

my 03 8mm conversion tangent sight does the 50 meter clicks. Is it correct or broken?

I watched this thing almost 5 hrs ago when it first came out but yahboob forgot.

It translate like robin and someone mauzer weapon facrory" what was the names of the mauzers ?

@31:45 well that shit derailed quickly.

Mausers with spikes instead a stock should be a think now.

ugghh, my favorite metal band: Beefy Left Arms

Bring back the grunt!

Did he actually say WD-40 is not a lubricant? It is most definitely a lubricant, maybe not the right one for your gun. That's like saying transmission oil is not a lubricant because you can't pour it in your engine

Beefy arm... Did someone say Trogdor?

Мэй красавица!))

How tall is Mae?

7:56

Wil u do ww2?

What waa wrong with the first upload?

Watched 7 21 22

I have two medel

1321 --- 1903 م 1322 --- 1904 م 1323 --- 1905 م

Mae says it as "cacarno" too 😂

If you want a bad Mauser try the Spanish made Mauser/Oviedos M1927 sold to Paraguay for the Chaco war "The outnumbered Paraguayans slowly but surely advanced against material odds until they eventually won control of almost all the Chaco. They were much better motivated and led. One fact soon became apparent, the Paraguayan troops would discard their M1927 Spanish made Mauser as soon as they could lay hands on a captured VZ-24 or other quality Bolivian Mauser. At the Second Battle of Nanawa , the Field Commander of the Paraguayan Army was touring the battlefield after the decisive defeat of the Bolivians and saw nearly 3000 of their dead with a Modelo Paraguayano 1927 neatly placed upon each body. Asking the local commander the meaning of this bizarre sight, he was told that the victorious Paraguayans had taken the good "Vickers rifles", as the Bolivians called the Brno Mausers, and left their Oviedos as a mark of respect for the valor of the dead." The Chaco War, Bruce Farcau, 1996

Mae is cool.

1321 not Rumi calendar but Hijri calendar or Islamic calendar.

oh yeah! BLAs make the world go around. oh gawd! here come the bubbaspikes!

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I think I found a Mauser 98 derived rifle that you guys would admit is terrible: i0.wp.com/www.forgottenweapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1903snabbright.jpg A Snabb conversion done to a 1903.

Noo the Chinese Mauser is gone :(

How to improve it? Polygonal rifling, give it a knob on the cocking piece like everyone else, dust cover like Manchurian type 13 (or just taking that bolt altogether.) have the bolt handle come out at a lower angle. Give it Lee Enfield ergonomics, probably with the aid of the Bloke. Better sights, diopter s. Don't think you can move them back though. Move the front sight back just like post war Spanish models for grenade launching. Free floated barrel and rails. 🤣 How to make it worse? Give it a meter long barrel and/or give it a pistol grip so you can cut the stock off. Change it for 22 short or move it back to 318 or chamber it for 12.7. It would Ian's day. PS. And have Remington do it.

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Reupload?

look like as soon as new rifle is been made in Germany,the turks run there with bag full with gold to buy it.

Man the Ottomans have a Mauser problem. They need professional help. Don’t blame them though.

No round-nosed 7.65 Belgian mauser rounds? Or maybe Ottomans were using spitzers in this gun too and were missing targets same way.

Wd40 is to overratet

with this weapon the Turks made the Armenian Genocide in 1915