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Posts: 77 (06/06/09 04:37 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None here are 2 less common,i believe,peruvian 91 mausers. a long rifle that escaped the lange sight rebuild and a done from a long rifle in peru short rifle. click thumbnail to view album.
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Posts: 12075 (06/06/09 09:05 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	VERY nice!!!!
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Posts: 167 (06/08/09 11:28 AM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The original 1891 is in fact very rare. Only a handful escaped the conversion, and even fewer still have a decent bore or at least most of their matching parts. I secured a couple, one of which I had to restore by replacing the original barrel (Ruined by corrosive ammo and ill cleaning procedures) with another one in great condition that came from a sporterized '91. Both are great shooters in original military configuration. Changes were implemented by various reasons. These were the 1st. troop-issued smokeless powder repeater rifles we had after a bloody war and occupation by Chile, so both military personnel and civilian target shooters fired them A LOT; ammo was corrosive-primed and local troops had always been careless with the armament. Also the hard and long contact surface of the almost 200gr. jacketed bullets these were intended to use took a toll of the bores. Add to that the fact that in 1910 the Model 1909 arrived as a replacement along with new Spitzer-style ammo with different ballistics and the Government decided to contract Sig for replacement barrels and got new "Lange-style" sights. Probably the few 1891s that were left untouched were those belonging to State-sponsored civilian shooting clubs that when disbanded away due to various reasons, returned their unmolested rifles to military depots long after such upgrades were implemented. Some others were gave away by the Army to high ranking officers or winners of shooting matches, and those are the handful that remained here (Have seen around less than 5 and even fewer in Museums). Time, theft, Bubbas, ill storage conditions and the U.N. gun-destroying programs washed away the few remaining survivors. Nice to see that both keep the lightly stamped Peruvian crest, specially the short rifle since they were also polished and reblued during the so-called 1912 modification. Congratulations.