Mauser 1909 cavalry carbine: shortened variant, with a straight grip stock and a forecap that covers all the barrel.Mauser 1909 sniper rifle: version with a German-made scope and a bent-down bolt handle.Some Argentine Mauser 1909 rifles and carbines without crests were sold to Paraguay during the Chaco War. The Model 1909s were replaced by FN FALs without having seen combat. The main producer in Germany was Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken that delivered 200,000 rifles while around 85,000 rifles were manufactured by the Fabrica Militar de Armas Portatiles, governmental plants in Rosario and Santa Fe. The M1909 was also able to use the bayonet of the Mauser 1891 it replaced. Among other modifications, the Lange Visier sight was replaced by a tangent leaf sight. The Mauser 1909 was a slightly modified copy of the Gewehr 98.
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