Mauser Heat Treat

There is a great deal of confusion, disagreement, and misconstrued information regarding the Mauser rifles, their metallurgy and their heat treatment. To do justice to this topic would require a book, to delve into the history of several topics including manufacturing, metallurgy, the firms, rifles, contracts, and countries involved. The complexity and depth of this topic requires a student to carefully consider its sources. I hope in what follows I have presented an adequate mixture of primary sources and empirical evidence.