Overview & Firing - Turkish K.Kale M1938 Mauser
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- čas přidán 29. 12. 2023
- We’re taking a look at the Turkish Model 1938, also known as the Turkish Mauser 38, the K.Kale 38, or the Turkish K.Kale M38. This was Turkey’s first domestically produced military rifle and is a derivative of the Mauser Model 98 large ring design.
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The name given M-38 was given by American collectors. There is no such a nomenclature in the Turkish Army. The so called M-38 are not of lower quality. Many of them are converts, that was given the name M-38 after their barrels were modified from 7.65 to the caliber 8 mm German. Turkey adopted the caliber precisely on 1938. I own one in great condition and does not have anything to envy to any other Mauser rifle.
Excellent video. I just got my first 1938 in a long while. I had forgotten how smooth they are.
I would say they are more loose, than smooth. Haha. They saw a lot of use. 🤠
Freud would have a field day with that verbal slipup around the 12:55 mark
I just went with it when I was doing post production instead of trying to replace it….
@@GarandGuy2553 I actually was drinking a coffee when I heard that and I am surprised my monitor didn't need to be cleaned afterwards.
Back in 1995, I bought Turkish Mausers by the pallet from Navy Arms for roughly $29-$39 each. Some models, like the post war K Kale rifles, set me back $69 each.
They were cheap. Many were made in Europe. Most had been refurbished or modified. They saw a lot of use. They sold well as long as I could get surplus ammo. 🤠
They’re still affordable today but damn…
Back when C&R collecting was pretty cheap and fun i picked up an unscrubbed Yugoslavian m98 with all the german birds, etc, present except with a faint Yudo crest instead of year/code AND an super great 1940 K. Kale M38 in excellent condition. I love all my collected Mausers but the Kale always makes me smile to pick i up and especially to shoot. it is very accurate* with that distinctive Turkish feel of that rifle. it will always stay as an equal in my eyes of any Mauser in my collction- except maybe the perfect duffel cut/nonimport marked AX- but seriously close! The Turk rifles are tough and accurate and still a great rifle to pick up. Really nice review and video my friend!
Interesting. Thanks
Nicely done
Thanks for watching!
Nice video👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks!
Thanks for the video! Loving the content that you have been putting out. I bought a Turk Mauser a year ago for a steal. It was manufactured in 1945 and has a numbers matching bent bolt which I found interesting. Do you have any information on bent bolt Turkish Mausers?
I have no idea honestly! Their was an M38 short rifle made as well that has a bent bolt handle. Maybe it’s that? www.mauserturcottoman.com/mauser-turc-m38-court-a-venir?lang=en
Any videos showing your gun rack system? Mandatory old guy comment, my 1st surplus & deer hunting rifle was a 1938 Turkish mauser from Woolco's (dept store) $69 if I recall ~1980.
Actually, yes! czcams.com/video/gMuDBQUGPt4/video.htmlsi=OjnvmCUhSzRz2hXg
@@GarandGuy2553 Nice work. Thanks
Actually the entire production was 500, 000 orders.In Germany the Turks built a house annexed to the Mauser factory in Germany. The Turks in that house called Turkey house inspected their Mauser rifle orders to make sure their orders were correct. Most of Turkish rifles were built in Germany and remodeled in Turkey. There was never a Mauser factory in Kirikale, there was an armory to remodel Mausers.
I’m not sure that last part is true. Yes, the 1893’s & 1903’s were made in Germany and then refurbished in Turkey. However, the M38’s were, for the most part, domestically produced rifles using imported Fritz & Werner Company tooling to Kirikale. To my knowledge, there are no sources indicating that Germany made any rifles in the 1930’s/40’s for Turkey unless you have a source?
@@GarandGuy2553They absolutely made rifles, the so-called “K.Kale” Turk Mausers were such. They were made with Brno assistance, at least in the initial set up.
However, one does see so many variations collectively called “Turk Mausers” that it can be difficult to keep them all straight.
There is some truth to the designations. By Turkish manual, they referred to all of the 7,92 rifles (at least the m98 actioned guns but possibly their whole mess of Mausers…) as the m938.
@@Dominic1962 A couple things that come to mind. First, there is a pretty clear distinction between something being made in Germany and something being made on German equipment in another country with foreign assistance. As previously stated, K.Kale’s were made with German built equipment and machinery imported into Turkey by the Fritz & Werner company in the 1930’s. This is well documented at the K.Kale Military Museum in Ankara. The rifles are Turkish made rifles because they were made in Turkey. It doesn’t matter if they were made using German equipment.
Secondly, Brno is in Czechoslovakia (back when it was one country). So if you’re claiming that they’re German made, clearly citing a non-German company wouldn’t make any sense. Were the K.Kale’s made using Czechoslovakian parts? It’s possible but I would need to see sources first.
@@GarandGuy2553 Maybe it wasn’t clear, by “they” I meant the Turks themselves, not the Germans.
@@GarandGuy2553 As to Brno, according to Doc AV over on the old Gunboards forum, ZB Brno was the “technical project suppliers” to set up the K.Kale plant.
Super stuff! For whatever reason, Turkish Mausers never seemed to be imported in volume into Soviet Canuckistan, or it just happened before I became aware of it. I've probably run across more Gew. 71/84s than I have any Turkish Mauser.
Hopefully one day I'll add one to the collection!
That's surprising! They're super common down here and almost as cheap as Carcanos. I guess it's the only affordable 98 left in the surplus market, if you want to call it that.
@@GarandGuy2553 I don't know if I'm too surprised. There are more than a few milsurps in my collection that have US import marks. I suspect you Yanks have kept hoovering up supplies for years and we only get the crumbs ;-)