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Mauser Models 93 & 95

General Specifications

Type . . . . . . . . .Turnbolt repeater.

Receiver . . . . . .One-piece machined steel forging, unslotted bridge. Clip-charger guideway in bridge.

Bolt . . . . . . . . . .One-piece, dual-opposed locking lugs forward.

Ignition . . . . . . .One-piece firing pin, coil mainspring and cocking piece. Cocks on closing the bolt.

Magazine . . . . .Staggered column, nondetachable box type. 5-shot capacity. Detachable floorplate. One Spanish-made M93 has hinged floorplate.

Trigger . . . . . . .Non-adjustable, double-stage military type.

Safety . . . . . . . .Rotary wing type built into bolt sleeve. 180° swing from left to right, locks striker when “up,” locks striker and bolt when at right.

Extractor . . . . . .One-piece, non-rotating, spring steel. Attached to the bolt by a collar.

Bolt-stop . . . . . .Separate, hinged at left rear of receiver. Stops rearward bolt travel by contacting left locking lug.

Ejector . . . . . . .Swinging type, positioned in bolt-stop housing.

Commonly known as the 7mm Mauser, it is correctly referred to as the 7x57mm Mauser. This designates a case 57mm long and caliber of 7mm (bullet diameter of .284”). It is a rimless bottlenecked cartridge, with much of its long bullet exposed. The typical military round had a 173-grain round-nosed jacketed bullet driven at a muzzle velocity of about 2300 fps. Most military rifles chambered for this cartridge have barrels with a rifling twist of one turn in 8.8 ”, and are deeply throated to accept the long bullet.

Commercial 7mm Mauser cartridges loaded in the United States have a 175-grain softpoint bullet with a muzzle velocity of around 2490 fps. It is loaded to approximately the same overall length, using a bullet that matches the military chamber and rifling perfectly. Ballistically this 7mm load is comparable to the 308 Winchester (180-grain Power Point).