Mauser, Mannlicher and Wells, your table is ready. No names in the entire history of firearms are more imbued with magic and glory than Peter Paul Mauser and Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher, and few in more recent history could be considered as deserving to walk in their company as Fred Wells. One would hope that Mr. Mannlicher were friends, but history is silent on the subject. Whether or not these two contemporary giants of firearms design rubbed elbows and shared a German or.

Mauser Model 1896, the Broomhandle. And the German engineering genius who designed it was not Paul Mauser. The Broomhandle featured here is an early 30s-era Bolo, chambered in 7. 63mm Mauser, also known as .

Friday, March 16, 2018. I was in high school and college then. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Took the K31 out with the correct.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018. So far, as I have walked such places, the dead have not revealed their secret, something for which I should probably be grateful. I have no story today, merely words of observance, of the surface truths in the world outside my window. There underneath that light mantle of snow came forth a yellow flower, a small ray of light there in the cold, a lower apostle giving me hope that warmth would soon blanket this landscape, even as the cold wind gives a lie to its prophecy.