Turkish "Enfauser" - Mauser/Enfield Hybrid Rifle
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In the mid 1930s, Turkey updated and overhauled the bolt action rifles in its inventory, to bring them all up to that same standard for sights, ammunition, sling configuration, etc. Most of the rifles overhauled were Mausers of various vintages, but some were other designs, like Gewehr 88s...and British Lee Enfields. Yep, the Turks converted Lee Enfield rifles (mostly Magazine Lee Enfields and Charger-Loading Lee Enfields, but also some SMLEs) to have Mauser sights and furniture and fire 8mm Mauser ammunition.
These hybrid rifles have no formal designation, and are usually called "Enfausers" or "Mausenfields" by people in the collecting community. Only a few hundred were brought into the US, apparently by accident among vast imports of Turkish Mauser rifles over the last few decades. They are made from rifles captured in the siege of Kut and the Gallipoli campaign - this particular one came from the 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry, which surrendered at Kut in April 1916.
Thanks to viewer Wyatt for providing the rifle for me to film!
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I asked my Turkish great grandfather '' What is the most beautiful thing in the world?'' He said ''Mavzer Rifle''. I was expecting him to say something like my family. He insisted mauser is the best thing in the world because you can use it at both close range with bayonets and long range. This guy fought in WW1
Hi Ian, the "T.C." marking stands for "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti" which translates into Turkish Republic. Turkish Army, actually more so Turkish Armed Forces, however is abbreviated as T.S.K. ("Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri").
Mauser in the streets, Enfield in the sheets
Since the “Enfield” portion was the barrel rifling and “Lee” was the action, this rifle might be better called a “Lee-Mauser” .
So a turkey hunting rifle
If nobody's suggested it yet, I'd like to propose "Field Maus"
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These are all scattered around Black Sea region of Turkey as wall hangers and ye ol gramps bear deterrent. Never truly understood what exactly they were but everyone calls them Mauser (mavzer in Turkish). Now I know. Thanks Ian.
Mauser + Enfield =
"Mauser/Enfield Hybrid Rifle"
The foster home rifle. A child of the fractured relationship between England and Germany so was adopted by Turkey.
So Turkey, you want a Mauser or an Enfield
Turkish officer here! Thanks for the video very nice to see these things are still somewhere operating and doing their job.
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That mauser is a MONUMENT. That shows the standardization efforts of a new born republic, which has extremely limited source of simply any kind, after a great global economic depression, just few years before a world war breaks out. (WW2). (1930s).
Pretty cool to see, thanks for the info. My Great Grandfather (i never met him) apparently had a Mauser rifle and i always wanted to look it up and see what kind he had. But all the info i could get from my family was that he had a "Mavzer" (Mauser rifle) and that it was pretty short.
One of my local shops had a beat up Enfield that apparently was from Egypt. It had a detachable mag, complicated aperture sight, and was chambered for a Japanese round.
This rifle does have a name: It is called “Kirikkale”, which is the name of the town in central Turkey where they were built.
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