Talk:Paul Mauser

This article needs a re-write

I looked through this article, and it barely qualifies as a wiki page. Things like this especially: "Many versions of this design also were licensed to other countries, which also used to build their own versions of the G98. Most famous of those "foreign Mausers" are Persian Mausers, Turkish Mausers, Czech VZ-24 Mausers, Yugoslavian Mausers and some others. The list of the vast variety of the Mauser-type versions could easily cover a number of pages, but, for the sake of compactness, I will describe only the basic, German model."

Make me think it's either a very poorly written original wiki article, or it was copied from a firearms magazine. I think the latter, since it reads like something you'd see in a gun rag.

If it's from a magazine, it needs to be taken down immediately. Either way, a re-write is going to be necesssary. 64.150.152.159 (talk) 17:31, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Compiling info to fix this article

I've decided to take it upon myself to fix it, and am in the process of gathering information. Please let me know if anyone else is planning to work on it.

The glaring problem with the article is that only the first couple of sentences are about Paul Mauser, and the remaining article is about Mauser rifles, almost entirely ones developed after Paul Mauser’s death. The bulk of the article needs to be dropped, since there is already a good Wiki article on Mauser rifles.

Until I can compile enough information for the article, I’ll write this much about the subject, just to set the record straight:

Peter Paul Mauser (his real name, which needs to be changed in the subject) designed both rifles and pistols. (Wiki “Mauser” for more info about them) The 1871 Mauser rifle was not the first, but was his first major government contract. Some time after the death of his brother Wilhelm, the Mauser Arms Company became a stock company with Paul only owning about a sixth of the shares. Paul had no financial control of the company except through his influence as part of the board of directors. He remained the plant manager and headed research and development, and is responsible for a rather large list of patents for rifle and pistol designs. He continued as a weapons designer, toward the end experimenting with semi-automatic rifle designs, until his death from heart disease on the eve of WWI.

There is an issue I have not resolved, and hope someone else might be working along the same lines and have the answer.

So far I can not find any sufficient evidence Paul Mauser was ever a "von Mauser." Multiple sources indicate he was born "Peter Paul Mauser" from a working class family, and he most commonly is refered to as "Paul Mauser"; However, a New York Times obituary names him "Dr. Paul von Mauser." Was the title "von" confered on him during his lifetime? Did he receive a doctorate? From where? for what? I am begining to think the NY Times obituary was in error.

Anyone else working on this?

Chrisply (talk) 07:36, 6 July 2008 (UTC)