Mauser Anti-tank rifles

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Had the opportunity recently to stroke one of Mauser's MASSIVE WW1 era anti tank rifles. Very cool rifle, are there any in private hands in Canada? Someone's gotta have one! Lets see!
 
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The museum at the Citadel in Halifax has one....donated from a legion after many years as a wall hanger/trophy. The bolt was seized shut, so they worked it open.....and out came the live round that they have for it.

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One was sold at the Bud Haynes auction in the spring. It went for $5500 plus buyers fee plus GST, so the total would have been around $6500.
It was an interesting piece, but we were there to buy the Boyes rifle (which we got, and it wasn't cheap either).
 
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Any pictures of this monstrocity?
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Google "mauser anti tank rifle". I couldn't get the link from wikipedia to work, but it basically looks like a huge K98 with a pistol grip and bipod...
 
Is this it?

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It's a rimmed round, 13x92. I have a few empty cases that belonged to my wifes great uncle who faught in WWI.
 
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7.92x87 For the Spanish ATR

7.92x94 For the PzB 38/9, M.SS 41

7.92x107 For the Maroszek

12.7x108 For the Sholoklov

13x92SR For the M1918

13.9x99B For the.55 Boys

14.5x114 For the PTRD, PTRS

15.2x114 For the .60 T1E1

Dimitri
 
I was being sarcastic ;)

It would be interesting to manufacture something that would handle that round though.

Effective on heavily armoured moose and polar bears at a mile.
 
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/collectors.cgi?read=19823



Original Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr Anti-tank rifle. Comes with 1 dummy round and German reference book on rifle. Serial # is 2**. Comes with correct tubular bipod as used on some Maxim 08/15s. It has been rebarreled to .50 cal BMG and done so that you cannot tell it's not the original barrel. Nothing else was changed. It comes with the original barrel, which can be put back if needed. $7500.
 
NavyShooter said:
http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/collectors.cgi?read=19823



Original Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr Anti-tank rifle. Comes with 1 dummy round and German reference book on rifle. Serial # is 2**. Comes with correct tubular bipod as used on some Maxim 08/15s. It has been rebarreled to .50 cal BMG and done so that you cannot tell it's not the original barrel. Nothing else was changed. It comes with the original barrel, which can be put back if needed. $7500.
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Also, not likely to get an import permit from the USA unless you are a military museum, National defense establishment, or a police force. Anything .50 cal or bigger is hard to impossible to get out of that country.
 
Also, not likely to get an import permit from the USA unless you are a military museum, National defense establishment, or a police force. Anything .50 cal or bigger is hard to impossible to get out of that country.
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ya cuz ganstas gonna bust some major ass wit dis gun, yo!

As for that 7.92x94 up in the picture of the carttridges, just what was the idea behind it?!
 
f_soldaten04,

The idea was a faster bullet penitrates armour better from what I understand. :) Alittle bit on the rifles that used the 8mm Anti-tank round:

The two main anti-tank rifles used by the German Army were 7.92mm Panzerbüchse (PzB) model 38 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and model 39 by Gustloff Werke. Only 1600 PzB 38 were produced from 1939 to 1940, as the weapon was too complex and expensive.

Lighter PzB 39 was mass produced (some 39232) and was widely used on all fronts. PzB 38 weighted 16.2kg, while PzB 39 only 12.6kg. Both anti-tank rifles had similar characteristics - muzzle velocity of 1210mps (PzB 38) vs. 1265mps (PzB 39) and length of 1.615m (PzB 38) vs. 1.620m (PzB 39). Both rifles were single shot weapons and fired the same ammunition (steel core and from 1940, tungsten core).

The original bullets had hardened steel core and tiny capsule of tear gas. The idea behind the capsule was that once the bullet entered the armored vehicle it would disperse and force the crew to leave the vehicle. It didn't work as only the core penetrated and capsule was left outside.

PzB 38 and 39 were able to penetrate 25mm of armour at 60 degrees at 300m and 30mm at 100m. It was planned that each infantry division will have 81 rifles but it varied from unit to unit. PzB 38 remained in service in the early war years, while PzB 39 remained in limited use until 1943/44.

Majority of PzB 39 anti-tank rifles was converted to grenade launchers - Granatbüchse Model 39 (GrB 39). GrB 39 was a PzB 39 converted to take the standard rifle attachment grenade launcher (Schiessbecher) able to fire standard hollow-charge anti-tank or anti-personnel grenade.
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http://www.achtungpanzer.com/articles/pzb.htm

Dimitri
 
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