Mauser 71/84

I can't recall for this specific image. I do have a higher resolution copy of the same image also provided by A1Coyote if anyone would like me to post it on here. It is one of the few period photos I have where Gewehr 71s and 71.84s are collected en masse.
 
polaris said:
it is quite astonishing that we have rifles from the same regiment, which was stationed at the Garrison city of Rawitsch in lower Silesia, today Poland.

50. Niederschlesisches Infanterieregiment.

Here is a postcard from the Garrison city of Rawitsch from before the turn of the 20. century:
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PS you know that Numrich has still a lot of parts to complete your "sporterized" Mausers.

Anybody shoots their 71/84?

here is my recipe, which is quite accurate:

Bullet Barn bullets
1/2 sheets of toilet paper and
36.5 grs of Varget powder

lots of fun
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BTW these loads produce a shower of confetties, and when asked about it, I tell the bystanders that this is my "Party Gun"

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Loving this thread!!! :)

I have a full wood, all matching intact 1886 Danzig made 71/84, and I love it!!

Just waiting on the mail for my Reloading dies, bullets, and brass for the .43Mauser (11x60mm)! Beware, the Brass can be EXPENSIVE!!!! I think it was $72.50 for each box of 20 pieces of .43Mauser Australian made Bertram Brass... :eek:

My rifle is marked to the same regiment as yours too! :D

50.R.7.207

I looked up the history about it awhile back and found the same info as you. Very cool, as some of my ancestors lived in Ostpreußen wayyy back in ze day! ;)

Would really like to find out where my rifle served, and whom it served under! :)

PS: Bought the Brass and Reloading Dies from "Mystic Precision" and the bullets from CGN member "mg34".

Prost! :cheers:
 
I went brass hunting last year and I can confirm the Aussie brass is very expensive. As long as you take care of it, it will last you a long time.

Interesting how we found another rifle marked to the 50th infantrie regiment :).

We should get these old ladies together again and have a 71.84 shoot off :D.
 
Nabs said:
I went brass hunting last year and I can confirm the Aussie brass is very expensive. As long as you take care of it, it will last you a long time.

Interesting how we found another rifle marked to the 50th infantrie regiment :).

We should get these old ladies together again and have a 71.84 shoot off :D.
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Move to the Free State of Alberta.... then we'll talk.... ;)

I plan on shooting low powered smokeless loads in mine. I don't reload for any black powder cartridges, and I don't really want to start.... :redface:
 
 
Polaris, that is a very good site for period photos. To the people that are willing to upload and share them, my hat is off to them.

Fox, I also load smokeless as I do not wish to deal with BP clean up at the end of the day :D. I am planning on using IMR 4198 and the load given in the Lee .43 Mauser die set. The funny thing is, it is the only load listed on their cartridge information paper :D.
 
I use only ONE powder to reload all my rifle cartidges from 223 to 43 mauser with 308 , 8mm 6.5 mm, 7mm, 30-30 etc.. in between. And believe me, it works very well.


Varget
 
Seriously, if you want factory performance levels at original pressures from almost ANY black-powder cartridge, use the original wight of bullet and a charge of THIRTY-EIGHT PERCENT of the Black charge, of SR-4759.

For the .43 Mauser, this means a 386-grain bullet and (77x.38=) 29.3 grains of SR-4759.

SR means Sporting Rifle. It is extremely bulky and very fast-burning, but, at 38% of Black, it mimics the original Black Powder ballistically, interior and exterior.

At one time there were BULK smokeless powders which you could load bulk-for-bulk with Black, but they are all gone now. SR-4759 is not a Bulk powder, but it is reasonably close and works well IF you keep to 38%-of-Black levels.

C-I-L used to load .43 Mauser with smokeless and it worked fine. I have no idea what they were using, but it was fast and in little pink chunks. MV was 1360 ft-sec with a 385-grain lead bullet, ME was 1580 ft-lbs.

If the rifle is sighted ON at 100, your strike will be 2 inches high at 50 yards and 3-and-a-half inches low at 125. They REALLY dropped!

Hope this helps.
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Hi Nabs and Fox,

I found some more information about the place where your rifles were "stationed" :)

Fifth Army Corps, Posen

17th Brigade of Infantery, Glogau

50th Regiment of Infantery (Lower Silesia No. 3), Rawitsch
 
polaris said:
they say without pictures, it just didn't happen
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.... it happened! ;)

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I thought it was all matching, but a piece on the bolt is marked "71" instead of "73", and also the magazine tube end cap is marked "71" as well, and it doesn't have the stacking swivel??? It doesn't look like it broke off or anything... any ideas?

PS: Does anyone know why photobucket is flipping all my pictures upside down??? :mad: I had them all in order and right side up, and photobucket does this to me!!! argghh! (EDIT: Well, 45min later, and it looks like the pictures are now finally right side up and in the correct order... ughhh...)
 
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Considering the stacking cap is not matched to the receiver, it is possible the original one was damaged and this one was swapped on. I can't tell you if it had the stacking rod before or after this change but given the other parts that match this number, it was likely swapped by an armourer in the field as a regimental armourer would have lined out the old numbers and re-matched the parts during pre war and early war service.
 
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