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My boss Eddie’s Chiang Kai-Shek was relatively worn and lived in a reddish-brown stock. I shouldered the rifle and worked the bolt, rotating the handle upwards, sliding the assembly backwards, before pushing it back forward to turn the bolt handle and nestle the Mauser’s distinctive locking lugs back into place behind the chamber. The 7.92mm Chiang Kai-Shek captivated me. “They’re fine rifles, people seem to think they’ll explode if you shoot them but I put plenty of rounds through mine,” he explained, handing me a German-made Mauser Type 24 Standard Modell to compare it with. ![]() I first handled a Chiang Kai-Shek in my boss’s dimly-lit California garage on a warm spring afternoon in 2013.
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