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If you look at Jon Speed's "Original Oberndorf Sporting Rifles", page 127, you will see that Mauser made at least 13 different magazine boxes for their sporting M98 rifles to properly hold and feed different cartridges. No other maker of M98 actions has since done so. Nearly all tried to cram all sorts of cartridges into the same military size box, perhaps lengthened a bit.
Thanks again Kuduae, I really must get Speed's book. I have Olson's "Mauser Bolt Rifles" which is a good reference for the history of the different models military and sporting, but it does not go into the detail Speed appears to. Someone sent me a copy of a couple of pages out of it about the Type A but I would like to be able to read all the rest. With Xmas coming up perhaps I can get someone in the family to get me a copy.
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