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I use the "Plezier rifle" as a word for a DWM sporter that was send as some kind of gift or corruption with military rifles. they do it for being in good memory some day when another order have to place. so the south american rifles are in this meaning also "Plezier rifles" like mauser is a bolt action or colt is a revolver. I see that they have not allways the same level of quality the original south african Plezier mauser had. it is obvious that DWM know exactly what to do and build the south african rifles exactly for the taste of a Boer.

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That's wrong IMHO. "Plezier Mauser" is not a generic term for all those "Army Hunting" rifles built as gifts to accompany foreign orders, but a very specific name for the one type made for the Boers in South Africa, a M93 action with a long, octagonal barrel. Alas, "Plezier" is the Afrikaans spelling of "pleasure" (English), „plaisir“ (French), “Pläsier“ (German). So the spelling “Plezier” was never used by Spanish- or English speaking customers, let alone Germans at DWM or Mauser.

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I agree with this . I know many Boer families and their descendants and from my understanding many of these Plezier rifles were specially built for individual Boers, many of them older and more well to do . Deneys Reitz points out in his trilogy of the Boer wars that many of these rifles were "commandeered" from these older gentleman and given to the younger and better shots of the Commando. It was a simple case of survival of the fittest ;the best shots got the most accurate rifles. Reitz also notes by the end of the war almost all of the Boers were using Lee Metford rifles as the 7mm Ammunition had long dried up. the Boers actually had a shoestring reloading facility in Pretoria after the infamous "kort neck" ammunition that was imported. Reitz himself captured a Lee Speed rifle from a British Officer and liked the rifle so much he hid it in his parents barn when he and some of the other "Bitter Enders "finally surrendered



Edited by CptCurl (01/07/14 09:29 PM)

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