When only small amounts and scattered examples of their And in a moment of crazy trading in the middleġ970s, mine went out of my life for a new siren song, one that IĪfter all those years from the Second World War to the 1990s, in small numbers, mine came through Canada. The actions were made in Brno, andĮntering the U.S. The first one I bought was in 1970, chambered for the. That the mini-Mausers were still being sold in Europe. The name they came in under, and for years after the 1950s, That time in our history, the Federal gun laws stated rifleīarrels for centerfire cartridges had to be 18 inches or Production market in quality with barrels from 16 to 20 inches,Īnd that’s why in part, a good number of them were restricted These were small compact rifles, and at the top of the mass Handling the imports and sold at premium prices, or kept for Taken out of the rest of the used military Mausers, by those many never even made it to public offering, being They were snapped up as fast as they showed These were in very small commercial calibers of theġ930s that were popular in Europe, and the actions over hereĬaught the name mini-Mausers. Mauser type actions floated into the U.S., along with the greatįlood of military rifles, mostly Mausers, that hit our shoresįrom Europe. How did it come about? Starting way back after WW2, in 1940's through the 1960s a few civilian small sized Small, compact, powerful for it’s size and very alluring. The company went back to the CZ name and markings, droppingĬZ’s latest caliber rifle is going to be a real sleeper the rifles builtīy them from 1924 on till the 1980s had the name Brno in the Simply means Czechoslovakian Arms Factory Ltd. inĪ series of names, in 1924 it was named Ceskoslovenska The company was the Austro-Hungarian Armament Co. The confusion with the name BrnoĬomes from the name of the city the factory was first situated
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