I saw on gun boards talk about Automatic Mauser rifles and a full auto model. I can say 100% Mauser tried to convert a few of their various semi auto rifles into full autos but Never went into production as All Mauser Models designed by Paul needed greased Cartridges and the full auto versions did Not function well with these rounds. Extraction was the biggest issue with All of Paul’s self loaders. I have many of the original development documents from Paul Mausers self loaders as well as 120 glass plates showing most of the variations. Only the 1915-16-17 Flieger models were tried out during WW1 mostly by Balloon flyers but Mauser Never sold more than 600 units! Had Paul ever known about Fluted Chambers then his very first model a Recoil operated rifle of 1898 would have run very well!
Here is a Mauser internal doc from 1910 that describes 3 Self Loading Mauser rifles with non recoiling barrels set up for R fire = Full Auto.
Mauser also made up a few Sporter Self Loaders also with scope set up etc. Unfortunately only a few were ever sold in open market etc. I have lots of great pics of these.
Here are 3 glass plate pics including the example I own. 2 pics of the very first short recoil C 98 then 3rd pic a Model 1908 the first prototype with a Fixed Barrel = most models before this the barrels and receivers recoiled about 12-15 mm. In my example 1908 this system has its lock -unlock system working in the top plate with sliding function to operate system. Again Greased rounds were used as Paul Mauser had not learned about the much later Fluted Chamber concept etc. The C 98 would have worked Well with fluted chamber and had similar concept as a C 96 pistol etc. These glass plate pics were used in 2 German magazine articles on Mauser Self Loading rifles. I want add that No C98 prototype self loading rifles were never sold to any land .
