Yes, yes, odd title, but here’s what the issue is.
I have a dog named Mauser. He was named for another dog, also a dachshund, in a thriller novel. I looked it up and the Mauser rifle is supposed to be German manufactured.
So, if I gave another dog an American rifle name, what is the closest type of American manufacture to the German weapon? I know so little about firearms, the only one I ever handled was over forty five years ago, when I was in the Army.
I hope my Mauser lives for many more years, but if I named another dog it would be interesting to give tribute to the one I live with now.
Thanks to all for the answers. It does give me more to look up. Now, if I named a dog Springfield would folks think of the gun or the city first? I still think though I would like it.
Mauser wasn’t a gun, it was a manufacturer. There were many Mauser rifles, both bolt action and semi-auto. Its closest competitor back in the day was probably Remington. In fact, two of the Mauser family went to work for Remington, so there’s a direct connection.
Remington is a pretty cool dog’s name, and people will get the gun reference, and it’s probably the best reference anyway.
Mauser also made a semi-auto with a stripper clip like the Garand, so Garand would work too if you need a shorter name. But Remington is right on the nose.
Technically correct, but the usage of Mauser to mean the Gewehr 98 bolt-action rifle and its evolutionary replacement the Karabiner 98k bolt-action rifle (yes, technically Karabiner translates as carbine, but it was a rifle) is so ubiquitous it’s like trying to correct people when they say Kleenex that they actually mean tissue. The vast, vast, vast majority of rifles produced by Mauser were Gewehr 98s and Kar 98ks. Mauser’s semi-automatic rifles were produced in incredibly tiny numbers and were unsuccessful to boot. Mauser - Gewehr 41, bolding mine:
The Gewehr 41 rifles, commonly known as the “G41(W)” or “G41(M)”, were semi-automatic rifles used by Nazi Germany during World War II. By 1940 the Wehrmacht issued a specification to various manufacturers, and Mauser and Walther submitted prototypes that were very similar. Both Gewehr 41 models used a mechanism known as the “Bang” system (named after the designer of the M1922 Bang rifle). In this system, gases from the bullet were trapped near the muzzle in a ring-shaped cone, which in turn pulled on a long piston rod that opened the breech and re-loaded the gun. Both models also included inbuilt 10-round magazines that were loaded using two of the stripper clips from the Karabiner 98k, utilizing 7.92×57mm Mauser rounds, which made reloading relatively slow. The Mauser design, the G41(M), failed as it, along with its G41(W) counterpart, suffered from gas system fouling problems. Only 6,673 G41(M) rifles were produced before production was halted, and of these, 1,673 were returned as unusable.
By comparison, over 9,000,000 Gewehr 98s and more than 14,600,000 Kar 98ks were produced.
Somewhat related, the term “Spandau” for was widely used by Allied troops during WWII, particularly the British to refer to the MG34 and MG42 machine guns as a holdover from the WWI when the MG08 was produced at Spandau arsenals. The MG34 and MG42 had nothing to do with Spandau arsenals and weren’t even ever produced in the borough of Spandau.
Another good name? “Browning”, (“Brownie” for short), after the Browning Automatic Rifle, the M1919 Browning, and the M2 Browning, all definitive weapons of WW2 - the last of which, incidentally, is still used by the U.S. military.
