How those decades of learned technology were implemented in the Mauser M18 is not what I expected. Let’s give him something with the name ‘Mauser’ on it and have him be happy with it.” “Everybody knows Mauser, so why not put in the hands of the average working man who’s out there who truly can’t afford a $5,000 switch-barrel rifle. “We were kind of missing out,” a Mauser representative tells me regarding why the company decided to offer an entry-level rifle. Mauser asked themselves why not put those collective decades of technology into a rifle that retains Mauser’s DNA, yet is simple. Instead, company representatives tell me that Mauser asked themselves why not put those collective decades of technology into a rifle that retains Mauser’s DNA, yet is simple. That’s not to suggest German engineering is cast aside on the M18 in favor of inexpensive production - quite the contrary. With the M18, though, all thoughts of designing it with complicated components were set aside in favor of a rifle the company endearingly refers to as the volkswaffe - the people’s rifle - that competes for market share against such basic guns such as Ruger’s American and Mossberg’s Patriot. For example, there was the Model 66 that had a “telescoping” action, the more recent Model 96 that is a modern straight-pull and various other models with “slide-bolt” actions. Since those early days, Mauser has made top-of-the-line rifles and also dabbled in ones that are arguably “complicated” and thus more expensive. The “magazine” rifle dispensed with all of that necessary attention, making them economically more in reach of “average” hunters, either as commercially produced hunting rifles or sporterized military ones.
Regulating sights for a specific load or multiple barrels to hit the same point of impact were time consuming and expensive endeavors that generally only the rich could afford. While there are many that reflect master craftsmanship with regard to caliber conversions, trigger work and handmade stocks the majority were put into the cheapest stocks that could be found or had the original military stocks cut and altered.Mauser has returned to its commercial rifle roots with a simple and robust modern bolt-action hunting rifle designed and priced for the “everyman” - the M18.Īt the time the Mauser company came of age, double rifles and even some single-shots were the tools of elite hunters.
The older sporterized rifles were often converted and housed in stocks of questionable origin. These rifles were popular and chief alternatives to newly manufactured domestic made hunting rifles. Typically, the barrel was replaced and the stock either modified or changed out to what is known as a sporter stock. The action made for an economical sporting rifle build when compared to sporting rifles built by Remington, Winchester, and Savage.
While many were preserved in their original military configuration, a great number were sporterized for hunting and target shooting. Founded in Oberndorf, Germany, in 1874 as Königliche Waffen Schmieden, the company was an effort started by the Mauser brothers, Peter and Wilhelm, several years earlier when they designed and produced rifles for the Prussian military.įrom the end of World War II through the late 1990s, many thousands of Mauser rifles hit American shores via the surplus market. The name Mauser is one of the oldest names in firearms.
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