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 enlarge | Author: Robert Ball
Publisher: Gun Digest Books
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 255508
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0896892964
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.4425
EAN: 9780896892965
ASIN: 0896892964
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
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 Useful and Well Illustrated October 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ball's MAUSER MILITARY RIFLES OF WORLD uses an organizational format similar to W.H.B. Smith's classic SMALL ARMS OF THE WORLD. Both books group rifles by the nations which used them.
I find that format convenient for research and it also reminds me how many countries used Mausers. I have the 1996 edition and found the illustrations, which include a lot of color photographs, to be a major selling point for the book. It lacks the depth of Ludwig Olson's comprehensive MAUSER BOLT RIFLES, but is much more profusely illustrated.
I have a number of Mauser rifles in my collection and I found them all in Ball's book. While he doesn't go into them as deeply as Olson does, the information was accurate and easy to read. This may not be the case with later editions, but Krause Publications did a nice job with the 1996 edition. It's a great-looking book and I enjoy the photographs. I didn't see errors in captioning either, but I don't pretend to be an authority on Mausers.
I like them. I collect them. I shoot them, but I might have missed some errors in captioning or text. It looked accurate to me insofar as I could tell.
This book makes a great companion to Olson's book and I gave it five stars.
Enjoying the Mauser manual October 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the indepth manual on the
Mauser rifle I have ever seen
 mauser: military rifles of the world. September 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are more pictures in this edition than the 3rd but I feel the 3rd edition had more details that are missing in the 4th edition. Like the Spanish FR-7 and FR-8, there are details and differences that are addressed in the 3rd edition of these 2 rifles that are omitted in the 4th. It is a nice general review of the mausers.
Mauser Military Rifles of the World 4th Ed. January 15, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the best edition Yet! Great color photos and detail. Very well laid out by country. This makes it so easy to find what you are looking for. A thorough reference work on the Mauser rifle. If you are a bolt action collector or shooter, then this is a core book that should be in your library. If I could have only one book on Mauser bolt guns, then this is it. Hats off to Mr. Ball!
 Much Improved 4th Edition January 1, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The 4th Edition is much improved over previous editions. It's impossible to have a book to cater to all collectors, everyone has there own tastes. For what it's worth so far I've noticed that most of the innacurate information has been weeded out. It doesn't give as much detailed information as I would like, but for a basic treatise on mauser rifles it's darn good
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