Mauser Model 1910

The Model 1910 was based on the Gewehr 98. The bayonet of the Mauser Model 1895 could be fitted on it.[1] It used the standard tangent leaf rear sight.[2] The Model 1910 features a rarely-used Mauser invention, patented in 1898: the bolt head enveloped the cartridge rim, leaving only the cartridge case visible.[1] It made the rifle more complex.[2]

Costa Rica ordered the Model 1910, chambered in 7×57mm Mauser. 5,000 were produced by the Mauser Oberndorf plant (Waffenfabrik Mauser-Oberndorf a/n) between 1911 and 1913. Some of these rifles had their barrel shortened to 58 centimetres (23 in) and were later modified to fire the .30-06 Springfield cartridge.[3] Ecuador ordered an unknown number in the same caliber.[4] Serbia ordered the Model 1910 rifle, in 7×57mm Mauser. It saw service during the Balkan Wars[5] and World War I. In 1918, it was the standard rifle of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia).[6] Some were exported to Guatemala.[7] In Yugoslavian service, the rifle was called Puška 7 mm M 10 and saw further service during World War II. Some were shortened and rechambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser as Puška 7,9 mm M 10C. The German captured by Nazi Germany were respectively designated Gewehr 221 (j) and Gewehr 291/.[8] The Venezuelan unelected leader, Juan Vicente Gómez, ordered 6,000 Model 1910 to modernize its Army equipment.[9] They were delivered by Mauser before 1914.[10]

• Ball, Robert W. D. (2011). Mauser Military Rifles of the World. Iola: Gun Digest Books. ISBN 9781440228926.