hello everyone and welcome back to the channel as you can most likely tell we are going to be
looking at something that isn't a tank today we are going to be looking at my brazilian 1908
model mauser rifle but before we get into that i just want to do a quick little bit
of announcements regarding future episodes in this little bit of a side series if you
aren't interested in any of that you can just skip right to the bit of history and then a
little bit of a lesson i want to share with you guys about me getting this particular rifle but
to start with i just want to have that little bit of an announcement so skip it if you don't care
or stay tuned if you do so for those of you who did not skip this series is going to be a little
different than my primary series because this is going to be more of a like i said a side series
and because of that i'm not going to be posting these future episodes for free on youtube if you
want to watch them on youtube you can do that by being a youtube member but i'm not going to charge
anyone a penny if they don't want to spend it on these episodes you can simply go to my account
over on odyssey which there is a link in the description to that and you can watch them there
for free the only reason you could watch them here separately is if you want to watch them in
slightly higher quality but i think odyssey's been working on upping theirs so honestly if you want
to watch it for free just go watch it there you may be thinking i'm doing this purely out of greed
oh he just wants people to pay him to watch that no it's none of that i just don't want to risk my
channel's monetization over a couple videos that i'm going to be making on the fairly small but
hopefully growing collection of firearms that i have it's just not worth it to me to risk having
any issues because if you've watched anything with firearms on youtube you know that youtube
is very iffy about their rules regarding that and it's just not worth it for me if you think
that's me being greedy then that's just up to you i guess but that's about it for that spiel so if
you are already a member you'll be able to watch all of these in full quality on youtube and if you
want to become a member to watch them you can do that using the join button and if you don't you
can watch them for free over on odyssey so that's about all i have for this so now let's get into a
little bit of history and then the lesson that i was mentioning about this particular rifle
so what we are looking at here is a modelo 1908 mauser rifle these were made in germany for brazil
i don't know exactly the date i'm assuming it would start in 1908 is when they would make them
and send them to brazil i don't know the exact date though the details have been a little tricky
to find if you have more information please do drop it in the comments because i plan to make
a video documenting the whole history of the brazilian firearms be from their early ones to
the ones that they have now because i think it's a very interesting story that no one's talked about
so any details you have drop them down below if i make mistakes feel free to correct me so these
rifles replaced the 1894 mausers which were the previous service rifle of brazil and were
one of the first smokeless powder and i believe they used the same 7x57mm mauser cartridge
these things are expensive by the way par part of the reason why i'm not going to be making a ton of
these videos ammunition is expensive so they had two different versions of these they were the long
rifle which you see here which is the full length 49 inch i believe and then you had the shorter
short rifle or carbine sort of rifle which were more used for the police i believe
like i mentioned these were made in germany for brazil they were made in either berlin or oberdorf
i believe i'm saying that correctly by dwm and i mean you'll see a lot of places say about these
these are some of the nicest made gewehrs you can find they're just fantastically made because
they're still made in germany so you have that very nice quality i've also seen in the source
that i'll leave linked down below that some of these were made in brazil later starting in 1916
out of german-made components so i'm not sure if they were just assembled there the parts sent
over and assembled or if there were any parts that were made by brazil it seems like they were just
assembled so most likely it was just parts sent over they bolted them all together essentially
all in all though these rifles were very very popular with the brazilians with one brazilian
officer actually going to say, this is from a sergeant Durval i hope i'm saying that correctly
the rifle mauser 1908 is a brazilian soldier's soul it is all that keeps him alive in combat
and considering the fact that these rifles were in use up until i believe into the 50s or maybe
even the 60s and i think they are still used in small quantities for ceremonial rifles like
marching rifles and stuff like that i could be wrong it's very clear though that these
were very well liked by the brazilians and after shooting it a bit i can see why it's a very very
nice rifle to shoot the recoil is manageable even after over a hundred years of this rifle going
through different hands i was still able to nail a shot on a soda can from probably around 150 meters
because i was at the first first range marker on my sight and first shot, bang, so this thing is
still deadly accurate even after all this time so you can tell these rifles were made well and
there's no denying that this is a very very nice service rifle and i'm sure they were happy to have
them these rifles did see combat in the contestado wars as well as against different groups of
bandits so they weren't just ornamental pieces that's for sure as i mentioned earlier this rifle
would take the 7x57mm mauser cartridge and fed by stripper clip as with pretty much any service
rifle at that time period and would have a bayonet on the front this one is a brazilian bayonet but
it is so dull that you could not cut paper with it if you tried so maybe i'll sharpen it at some
point but not really much use in that because i don't plan to do any bayonet charges anytime soon
the sling here is just a just a generic sling that i found i just wanted to be able to carry
this thing around easier there are some original slings on the market but they're in very rough
shape and it just didn't seem worth the price that some people were trying to charge for them
but yeah that's about it for the history portion of this like i mentioned i'll probably do a full
length video covering all the different rifles because there is some very interesting stuff
oh one last thing to mention and i'll mention it way more in that future video but this rifle was
also later re-chambered, some of them, not mine in particular, but many of them were re-chambered
later in 30-06 following WW2 and the brazilians very much liked 30-06 because pretty much all
their rifles up until the FAL used 30-06. that's about it for the history so anyways on to my bit
of lesson about what to watch out for when you're buying your own rifle let's say maybe you want one
of these and this is something that i missed and i probably paid more than i needed to for this rifle
but i don't really care because it's just a very nice rifle to shoot and honestly i don't think
i paid that much more than it's worth but i just want to point it out because it's something that
some of you could easily mistake if you're new to gun buying and it's something that i
don't really see mentioned very often in videos talking about rifles and stuff like that so just
something to watch out for so like i said it's not something you would notice at first glance
but because this is a very nice looking rifle but if you notice this is all shiny white steel
it should not be like that i don't know about the bolts specifically for this rifle but this whole
portion of the receiver here should all be blued and you can tell mine has been polished luckily
or thankfully i should say the crest here is still visible
and most of the markings are but if you look on the bottom on the floor plate
this is completely been polished down to the point where it's almost taken the numbers off thankfully
this is a mostly matching numbers rifle there's a few pieces and parts that aren't original
and i don't know about the stock because this has also been polished you can tell the
markings there are basically gone which is very unfortunate because it damages
the value of the rifle but that's not really a big concern to me but that's just something i figured
is worth mentioning so if you ever are looking at a rifle like this and you notice something like
that where it's been polished down or the bluing is missing for some reason and always you always
want to look for matching numbers obviously but yeah just watch out for that because this rifle
looks good it shoots good but its value has tanked a little bit because of those differences another
thing in regards to the bayonet and i don't know if this was the prev- this must have been the
previous owner who did this for whatever reason the bayonet lug on the end of this which i'll try
to move the camera in to show you guys the bayonet lug on the end of this when i originally got it
so it's supposed to fit on something like that but the original bayonet lug that this thing came with
did not fit this bayonet this is the correct bayonet for this rifle but for some reason i'm
pretty sure they had gotten parts from like a Kar-98 or something and just slapped it on the
end i mean granted the band and everything it's all the same size so it fit but when i
went to fit the bayonet it was like the ring was sticking off like here or something ridiculous so
yeah just another thing to watch out for this was only like a like 20 bucks or something to
get those replacement parts so i could mount the bayonet but it's just one of those things where
it's like why would they do it to begin with because like i said the parts weren't expensive
but i don't know just something to watch out for and i figured i would mention it if in case any
of you are looking at getting into collecting any firearms yourself, and if you are, a Mauser rifle
like this is definitely somewhere to start so i would definitely recommend getting one of these if
it's the sort of thing that you're interested in but that's enough of me talking i'm sure you want
to see the gun in action so i'll shut up and you guys can see some footage of me taking this out
on the range that'll be it for me today if you liked the video be sure to like it and enjoy
let's see am i in the frame oh wow i am look at that i'm almost professional
all right so here is just about my first impression with firing this model 1908 mauser
fired like one shot before because i can't really shoot too much in my backyard
so load up a stripper clip if it fits there we go
and put on some ears so i don't deafen myself and we'll put a few shots down range
and see how good of a shot i am with this and see how accurate it is
all right ready when you are
go for it
feels good very sick all right now let's see what uh not cameraman but property man caleb thinks
that's very satisfying
yeah we're good
all right so that's about as far as we're shooting see the targets out there how far about is that
that's a really good question i've never measured it out
i don't know i'd say maybe 200 meters 150 meters 100 something like that let me know
in the comments what you estimate let's go see who is more accurate
so i would say for a over 100 year old rifle that's not bad mine here on the right got all
five not a terrible group i'm by no means a great shot and Caleb first time firing one of these
that's three on target with one flyer up on the left and the other who knows where it's gone
so yeah very nice rifle, very satisfying to fire, i'll have to do some more shooting
when i have the chance but a lot of money for that ammo so i gotta find it cheaper