small problem.
I want to know what the crest on my FN hestal mauser is but i dont want to take off the scope mounts. i got the thing zero;s today and was shooting great.
the part i can see looks like theres a bird over two crossed cannone with the cannons bottoms toward the bottom of the crest. there is no border.
ANY help?

www.mausercentral.com - go to the forums

In one of the forums there is a sticky with crests and their countries of manufacture.

FN Mauser crest should be a fancy FN, with the f on top of the n

i think only the commercials had the fancy FN, this is a "fabrique nationale d'armes de guerre herstal belgique".
no help over at mauser central, couldnt find a matching crest.

pulled the front base. crest is crossed cannons over an anchor and rope. no country or year, no border.



all i can find is this "Argentine Marine Corps markings of furled anchor surmounted bv crossed cannons on the receiver ring of the FN Model 1930 Short Rifle. A very rare FN Mauser police carbine made for the city and;or province of San Juan, Argentina. This carbine has not been examined close up. hut it is assumed that it is chambered for 7 65mm and uses the standard length Mauser receiver."

It is a 1930 Argentine FN in 7.9mm. I believe it was a Marine Rifle.

ddj

"Navy contract stamp on the receiver of an FN Model 24/30 Mauser short rifle cal. 8mm. Varied opinion that it is a navy issue or a marine mark." Country of origin, Argentina.
from Handbook of Military Rifle Marks 1866-1950

Bob

i find it hard to belive that the guy who built this knew how rare the thing was in its orignal configuration.
still did a fantastic job...
blackburn trigger as well as pachy pad. and the thing shoots great.

Send a pic of that crest to the guy that started the threads on the mauser forum. They are always looking for more and unique crests, especially with info to back them up.

Looking at the design of the gun and the stock work I would say the gun has been around for some time and that when it was built that the Marine FN was just another good action to build a custom rifle on..One could say the same thing about the many G33-40 custom rifles and the 1908 or Peruvians, but the fact is they were some of the best and quite popular in their day, but today an original one would be worth quit a bit...I personally would convert one to a custom rifle anyway, not being a collector I have ruined many a G33-40 for a happy client...I have little use for military rifles as long as they have enough of them for display here and there.

The standard Argentine military cartridge was the 7.65mm Mauser, never the 8mm Mauser. Until they converted to 7.62 NATO in the 50's or 60's.

As I understand it in Spanish, Marinas translates as Navy. Armada is another word for Navy, or Fleet.

Argentina does, or did,have a small Marine Corp within it's Navy. In the Falklands/Malvinas war their Marines put up a fight. Enough so that the Brits praised them. The Argentine Army couldn't surrender fast enough!

Nice rifle! Good hunting to you

idahoguy101