Uruguay's Forgotten Mauser - The Dovitiis 

An Uruguayan rifle converted from a German model in France at the behest of an Italian that's often mistaken for a Greek. We don't get stuff like that anymore.

CAN'T BELIEVE MY COUNTRY HAVE A FORGOTTEN WEAPON!

Wow, I'm from Montevideo, Uruguay and I watch all your videos. It was a surprise you make a video of an uruguayan rifle.

Excellent Boone cosplay, Ian

Great work as always Ian. Greetings from Uruguay. ;)

Uhhhh saludos desde Uruguay increible que estes analizando uno de nuestros rifles! Incredible ! Uhhhh we salute you from Uruguay with love, it´s incredible that you are reviewing one of our rifles. Your history was on point, your pronunciation was ok too jajaja. I have been folowing you since at least a month now. I couldn´t believe my country flag was in the thumbnail , i thought it was a mistake jaja. Congratulations for the work that you do in every video.

im argentinian, and i could shoot one of these in the Uruguay months ago.incredible to see the uruguay flag in your channel

I loved your video. im Uruguayan and i didnt knew about this interesting Rifle. Mausers were very popular and one of them gave the fatal shot that killed a famous "caudillo" of a civilian revolt called Aparicio Saravia in 1904, the shot was made at about 250 yards. Special thanks for talking about my little country on your videos Ian.

I have a hard enough time affording .45ACP for my range trips. I can't imagine what it costs to have an obsolete 19th century cartridge custom loaded. Regardless, that's a sweet looking little rifle. Thanks for making me aware of this unique piece of history.

Ian, great video! FINALLY someone made a video about these. I love shooting my 71/94 just a couple corrections: There is no ejector. The only Mauser 1871's that had ejectors were the Jagerbuchse rifles that were used in Africa. The ammunition problem Uruguay had was that they had the wrong cartridges shipped to them! There were several variants of the 6.5 Daudeteau and the correct cartridge was the 6.5 Daudeteau No.12 Uruguay went on to convert a very small quantity of Rolling Blocks as well, but this was done in country, I only know of 3 surviving examples.

Uruguay gained its independence in 1825 from the Portuguese, known then as the Empire of Brazil

the full length rifle has a rod too, it's a longer rod. This is the kind of insight I come here for, thanks Ian.

Watching because there is a long rifle for sale locally... thanks for the information!

Thanks for sharing such an awesome piece, Ian. I was confident that this was an 1890 Berthier from the teaser clip you shared on facebook showing the clearing rod and berthier sights and such. I didn't even know this firearm existed.

Forgotten Weapons, one of those few channels that you go to the comment section to post; "Cool story bro" and not mean it sarcastically. ;)

French ammo producers ( SFM) kept manufacturing 6,5 Daudetau ammo into the 1920s for sporting carbines on the Daudetau M1895 Navy rifle pattern. Catalogues of Manufrance ( at St.Etienne) show the Daudetau No.12 cartridge and the 6 shot sporter. DocAV

I had watched,and enjoyed this video some months back. A few days ago, i was in a shop with my buddy, where he was doing a private party transfer (hey, it's Kalifornia). The shop owner was showing one of these, a full length rifle, to a regular customer, very cheap. The customer was a little hesitant because he wasn't sure of the chambering. I remembered some infobits of the story, and the fact it was in 6.5 Daudetau. The owner had printouts from C&Rsenal about it, as well as some other info. We also looked at COTW. I opined that brass could probably be made from various rimmed cartridges, and certainly any rimmed or semi-rimmed 6.5. I also suggested Huntington's for brass, or any of the custom loaders. (I was trying to help the shop owner sell it). The customer decided to wait to decide until he could do more research. I have since found that brass can be made from 7.62x54R without too much trouble. Don't know if other 6.5 dies can be used with the sizing die adjusted, or what (depends on body diameter and taper, of course). Anyway, it was a fun encounter and we had a nice chat. I'm sure it's fun to shoot. The ballistics are basically identical to .30-30 with a longer than 20" barrel. I may see if it's still there when my buddy goes back to pick up his gun....... . ☺ Great video as always. Thank you

i'm uruguayan, i looove guns, but never heared of this rifle... (btw, we gained independence from spain, never from argentina)

Nice gun. The Karl Gustav mauser is another great, great, 6.5mm rifle and cartridge combination. They shoot so well. It would be an intersting article

It's not often you get to do a Forgotten Weapons episode on the range. I really like this format.

The 6,5x53R No.12 D'audetau is based on the M1891 Mosin case, necked to 6,5, and the Rim turned down to all Semi-Rim dimension so the case is Not " Rimmed" DocAV

What? Uruguay did a rifle? I'm a bit more proud of my country.

For some reason, I think this video is especially awesome, but I couldn't say why... Maybe it's because it's a cocktail of awesome french-german forgotten hybrid carabine, because of the beret, the pun, Ian's fascinating explanations, his gift with foreign languages and the actual shooting :) Anyways, thanks for having made this video!

i like to see more latinoamerican history here. Very good.

At first sight, that looks like a delightfully handy little carbine. Confirmed @4:00.

what a surprise to know a little more about my country. Thanks for your awesome and dedicated work

One reason for the small 6,5mm caliber might be that they needed a low recoil because of the weaker locking lug of the blackpowder m71 rifle.

This is a very fascinating rifle/carbine & it has a great story to boot. Thank you for this.

I fall in love. It is super slim, like I love in rifles.

Mausers always have the smoothest bolt action I've ever seen

Nice video! Greatings from Uruguay!

I'm wondering - Why are you wearing a T-shirt from KACO - a German company that makes solar-power inverters?

Buffalo Arms sells loaded 6.5x53R (Daudetau) ammo!

The carbine started out life as a "jägerbüchse", generally termed a short rifle. A carbine would have been marked "k71" or KAR71", and been stocked to the muzzle with a sightguard nosepiece.

Gorgeous carbine. How often have we seen countries' attempts at cut price rifle solutions turn round and bite them and end up costing them more money than if they had made the right decision in the first place?

Great video. Funny how I got the whole story from a rifle made in my country from you!

I had one of these some years back. The bolt head was missing & I couldn't locate another. So, I sold it.

He wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find at your favorite gun store.........:) I couldn't resist, Ian. Keep up the good work!

Hey Ian, awesome rifle! I'm a big fan of single shots for some reason I was wondering what the parent case used for your custom ammo is from?

I’ve had one of these things for almost a decade, saw a mint one at the last Tulsa show

its been a while since I've seen you shoot do this more often.

Finally I came across a video of a fire arm from my country

"Let's give this a shot. Literally." - Gun Jesus 2016

Never thought I would see my country's flag in a thumbnail in one of your videos! Cool!

Interesting history on this rifle

Nice to see you in the Az.

That would be great to put a cartridge holding sleeve on the buttstock/comb

Nice looking weapon, slender and light.

Nice French accent, thank you for your efforts at pronunciating foreing words properly (or close!) in your videos!

What're the odds you post this and I find 2 Uruguayan Mausers on Proxibid?

Cool gun. Totally wanted one just based off of the look of it until you mentioned the ammo issue.

ian, for someone who doesn't wear a beret all the time, yours doesn't look half bad! trust me a lot of people, scouts and the like, who wear berets with their uniform don't have theirs nearly as neat as yours... do be more careful tucking the string on the back under the beret though! or if the beret fits you without adjustment you can cut those strings off

I thought the story was going to be that they somehow converted them into repeaters by machining some sort of Kropatschek style tubular magazine into the fore-stock.

You've gotta love that Kaiser Wilhelm II font!

Thank you for your good videos ian!

the G 71 hey Ian I'm a huge fan youre great about your history

Well I learned something new today, thanks.

That's a sexy rifle.

Now this is a forgotten weapon.

Pretty sure this rifle takes a modified p53 enfield socket bayonet as well which is also pretty cool.

Hey Ian, we declared our independence from the Spanish, not the Argentinians. And we fought many wars. Our natural harbor was so good, since we are in the inside curve of the Rio de la Plata and Argentina get all the mud, that every single power at that time wanted this harbor and their lands. So, Portuguese founded the first city, they where kick out by the Spanish, the British try, twice, Argentinians and Brazilians try, being the Bazilians who retain half of the country. Actual Rio Grande do Sul use to be Banda Oriental (Uruguay). Anyway you can find a lot of mausers too here, three locking slugs, mostly germans, and two slugs from France and Belgium. Most of them had been rebarreled and still in use for hunting. Lots of Rolling Blocks 7mm mauser too.

Neat rifle. The carbine would be a handy rifle to carry in the woods for some casual hunting...you know if the ammo was not nearly impossible to get.

Ah, god damn, for a second there I hoped it was about the Polish anti-tank rifle Ur (codename "Uruguay", "Ur"), but then I finished reading the title... This one is cool, too, don't get me wrong, but I'd love to see you talk more about some Polish guns. :P I get it that it wouldn't be easy to lay your hands on them, though. Ur (kb ppanc wz. 35), for those still reading, was a Polish anti-tank rifle firing 7,92 × 107 mm DS ammo, developed in secrecy and capable of neutralizing pretty much every German tank in 1939, from under 100m, including Panzer IV (B, C, probably D, they started ramping up armor on them later on). The interesting part, apart from all the secrecy, was what happened with the bullet on impact. ...go and read about it. ;) If only you could get your hands on one... Or on Mors (would-be wz 39) machine pistol (nigh impossible).

Curious as to what case is being resized for 6.5 Daudetau ammo.

That carbine is a fine looking rifle indeed.

I like any of the odd ball mausers. Well this is half mauser but you get my point. I would like to see a video on any of the Swedish mausers.

You know, between the full length rifles rear sight and the shape of the barrel shank, at around 12:34 you could be forgiven for thinking you were looking at a very, very early Mosin rifle. Of course those of us that know about the very, very early Mosins know that Chatellerault was the first actual producer of Mosins before the Russians got Tula, Izhevsk, and Sestroyetsk up and running.

Beautiful little carbine. The bolt and the lock-up looks quite fragile to fire full power high velocity rifle ammo though.. Especially considering 1870's and -80's metallurgy. Did you get any accuracy out of the weapon..?

Ian looks stunning with a beret, I love it!

Could you do a video on vetterli 6.5 conversations? I forget the actual model number and I know they aren't worth much, but the history would be incredible to hear.

they should have added a mannlicher enbloc magazine to that and you'd have a handle light recoiling repeater.

_Italy,_ _Italy everywhere_

Anybody have reloading data for this bad boy? These actions were originally for 11mm Mauser black powder. I'm trying to go easy on the old girl

Are these from your personal collection?

Just inherited one of the full-length rifle. It has been in the family (of gun-muggles) for decades and everyone else assumed that it was an Enfield, allegedly a WW1 bring back. Not so.

yay shooting

this gun looks pretty!

nice truck!

Didn't see anyone else asking about it, but I'm rather curious about the thinking behind the clearing rod. Is there anything about the design of it that would have made a slot for use as a cleaning rod somehow difficult? Just seems very odd to issue something like that for soldiers to lug around, but not have it designed such that it would serve far more use in the field.

Ian, do you do much reloading? I can imagine time might be an issue, but the reproduction of unavailable cartridges (for your own use) seem the sort of thing you might enjoy.

whats the most expensive or favorite firearm that youve ever had? whether its personal collection or sold, by the way i love your channel though i may never be able to buy a $75k gun, its pretty cool to learn about all these rare weapons

May make a good hunting rifle or training rifle if you could find or make ammo.

Now I gotta find one of those. Do you think you could do a video on the Portuguese 1904 Mauser-Vergeiro or even the Brazilian M1904 Mauser-Vergeiro? I am lucky enough to have a Portuguese m04/39 but just haven't been able to find much information on this breed of rifle.

At 12:25 it looks like there is almost a clip guide on the receiver. Why is that if it's a single shot rifle?

Nice truck! Do a review on your track!)))

Ian has gone airborne.

A beautifully svelte rifle.

Ian, Actually Uruguay didn't gain their independece from Argentina, the country was created as a result of the war betwen Argentina and Brazil, which started when Argentina annexed the current Uruguayan territorio. The United Kindom acted as a mediator betwen Argentina and Brazil and created Uruguay as a buffer state.

wow am from there and i alway wach your videos !

nice little rifles

i have one and im looking for a cartrigde just to put a side of it, do you knwon where i can get one? thanks

Where would one find these rifles and carbines and how much would one expect to pay? I lived in Montevideo for 3 or 4 years and have an affinity for South American arms. As you mentioned, Uruguay has not been a military power ever, so interest in their surplused small arms is rather light. Any help would be appreciated.

Second question...can you supply the recipe for the ammo...what bullet / case / powder and amount was used? Thanks again.

Fit an optic to the carbine and you have a very good marksman's rifle.

thats a better way to make videos keep it up

$5 says it's pronounced "doh vee tee"

Newbie question: I might have misunderstood, but I think Ian said this is a black powder gun. Were there self-contained black powder cartridges made, or was it all smokeless by the time self-contained cartridges came around?

i see you have a trusty Hilux, Bloody good Ute

I read about this thing, figured "There's just no way Gun Jesus has gotten his hands on this" and 10 seconds later here I am

That the gun doesn't tear itself apart (France and Germany back then didn't really like each other) is a wounder, the parts should be pushing each other apart like magnets you try to force together with the wrong poles!