The Castle's FN-built Israeli Mauser in 7.62 x 51. With some of her fiddly-bits.
The pic embiggens.
Here she is
wearing her grenade launcher. And here are close-ups of her
breech markings,
bayonet, and hefty
grenade launcher.
The Israelis procured a lot of Mauser rifles during the post-war period prior to the formal establishment of the nation of Israel. They got them from a lot of sources, from ex-Nazi German to Mexican weapons, as many nations were upgrading their arsenals to semi-autos. The FN-built rifles were the first *legal* (post-Independence) buy of Mausers, and the last major buy of them. When the Israelis adopted the FN-FAL as their standard service arm, they started converting their Mausers to 7.62 Nato to reduce the stress on the logisitics systems with regard to multiple calibers of rifle ammuntion. This is one of those rifles - FN-built, with the IDF crest, and the 7.62 marking on breech and stock. With a correct Israeli bayonet and grenade launcher.
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Jul 27 2012, 06:48 AM
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