A Brno manufactured rifle would have a serial number as such: 1234 T3. The only way to identify the production location is by the serial number pattern and the VTLU code. 24 was produced in Brno and Považská Bystrica (from 1938-1942). "vz." is an abbreviation for vzor, which translates to model, "24" represents the year of the design, 1924 and replaced the 98/22 mauser that was in production before it. 24 rifle was designed in Czechoslovakia shortly after WWI. About 762,000 rifles of this pattern were produced in Czechoslovakia for the Czechoslovak army and some other 330,050 for the German armed forces. Production continued for the German Army, which designated it Gewehr 24(t). The Wehrmacht had 11 divisions equipped with the rifle at the start of war, though vast majority of its life as a military service rifles was during peacetime with the Czechoslovak Army. It was developed from the Mauser Gewehr 98 line, though is not a clone of any specific Mauser model. 24 rifle is a rifle designed and produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 to 1942. Velocity= convert| 760|m/s|0|lk=on|sp=us|abbr=onįeed= 5-round internal magazine, two-row, integral box, with quickly detachable floorplate
Manufacturer= Československá zbrojovka Brno, a.s. Used_by= Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany, Slovakia, Romania, Japan, Iran, Lithuania, Guatemala, etc.