Before introducing the German Gewehr 88 series of rifles (including carbines) when there is a simple mention of the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine, and this Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine really does not have much to introduce, basically is the Gewehr 88 carbine type of the details of the modified version, it just so happens that I found a lot of photos of this gun on the Google extranet, let's take a good look at this Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine today.
Three models of the Gewehr 88 series
From top to bottom are the Gewehr 88 standard rifle, the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine, and the Gewehr 88 carbine type.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine Bolt Close-up
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine was adopted by the German Empire in 1891, of which Gewehr means rifle in German, while 91 refers to the gun being officially equipped in 1891, S refers to the gun can fire 7.92x57mm S type pointed bullet, artillery carbine, this does not need to be explained, this means that the gun is mainly equipped with the German Imperial artillery unit.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The biggest and most obvious change to the Gewehr 88 carbine model was the addition of a gun hook to the handguard position near the barrel. (Mauser 98AZ artillery carbine also has this gun hook)
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
However, the hook of the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine can be removed, and the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine with the hook removed is almost exactly the same as the Gewehr 88 carbine type, which is very difficult to distinguish.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine Inscription
There was a Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine with the hook removed, and if I hadn't seen the gun inscription, I would have almost thought it was a Gewehr 88 carbine.
The Germans used the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine
Old photographs of German artillery units taken before World War I show all soldiers holding a water Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine and the Gewehr 88 Carbine (Late Model) both have the characteristic that use this very flat bolt and look very unique.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
This flat bolt is called a spoon-shaped pull handle, and a closer look at the shape of this bolt is indeed very similar to a spoon, but I don't know why the bolt was designed like this, probably to facilitate the use of fingers to pinch the bolt.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine is supplied with 5 rounds of external boxed single-row magazines and can be loaded with 5-round bridge clamps or bulk.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
Due to the abandonment of the leak clip and the use of the bridge clip, the bottom of the magazine has also been changed to a fully closed, compared with the bottom of the leaky clip version of the Gewehr 88 magazine is open, and the bottom of the bridge clamp version of the Gewehr 88 magazine is closed, which helps to improve reliability.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine Chamber Close-up, this 100-year-old Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine is quite well preserved, showing that the owner of the gun cherished this gun.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
However, on the whole, there are still many bump marks on the surface of the gun, which is unavoidable, after all, it is an old antique more than 100 years ago, or an old antique that came down from the battlefield, there is no bump use trace, that is what makes people suspicious.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The gun once entered China (it was not found when it came to China, it should be after World War I), and this gun once appeared in the old movie "Dong Cunrui".
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine began production in 1891 and was heavily equipped with German artillery units, discontinued in 1897, producing a total of about 1,675,000 pieces.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
Interestingly, however, the Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine was replaced after 1908 by the Kar.98AZ artillery carbine produced by the German Mauser company.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbines that were removed were sealed and stored, but after the start of World War I in 1914, the Germans used these sealed Gewehr 91 S artillery carbines and used them until the end of the First World War.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine is 914.4 mm long, the barrel is 435 mm long and weighs about 3.15 kg.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine on foreign firearms websites is worth about $1300, which translates to about 8726RMB in renminbi.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
The Gewehr 91 S artillery carbine should not have been well-known during the First World War, for the obvious reason that as a pure artillery self-defense weapon, it really did not have many opportunities to show its face.
Gewehr 91 S Artillery Carbine
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