Chapter 3, Part 2: Mauser Werke AG Oberndorf a/N p168-233

[ugafx4]

Chapter 3, Part 2: Mauser Werke AG Oberndorf a/N p168-233

Sorry I am behind on this. Life happens! I will be back on track on this Sunday. These chapters are dense, but there is a lot of good info.

Question, page 165 mentions that Mauser tested 50 Brunn rifles and that the point of impact was off. Was there not a standard ammo being used for sighting in across manufacturers?

 

[mrfarb]

There was a standard loading, but not one supplier. Don’t you think it’s interesting that Mauser tested Brünn rifles? In that test eventually Brünn sent Mauser the ammo they tested with and the test were proved correct. It’s almost as though Mauser didn’t believe the rifles were actually as good or better than theirs. Or possibly this was part of the larger effort to maximize efficiency by having each manufacturer teach what they did best to the other makers.


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[ugafx4]

If I were Brunn, and saw an order from MO for 50 rifles..... I would send them 50 of the most accurate well assembled rifles I could find. I guess that MO saw the pass/fail rate report and wanted to figure out on their own if it was correct. I find it interesting how important the barrel was. Everything pass/fail appears to be about the barrel and barrel installation. You could pretty much just rename this chapter, “We need to cut assembly time in order to work on barrels and we need to find more barrels”. I have always known that they used subcontractors to save time, but that really sunk in reading this section. Why mess with receivers when they needed to be messing with barrels. Barrel production and test firing took a lot more time than I ever realized. The amount of rounds used for test firing....wow.

Another interesting note is that their experiment of having the barrel blank manufacturers finish the barrels failed so miserably.

 

[mrfarb]

You know, I was talking about this the other day -- you see reclaimed receivers, bolts, etc used on later production (salvaged), but I have yet to see a barrel that was reused, meaning a failed rifle that was scrapped out and the barrel reused. Maybe because that barrel is usually the unrepairable culprit in the final failure --- they even tried sending barrels back to the straightener (and stocks straightened too). Accuracy failure was the final death of a bad 98k I think.