Existing stocks of bolt actions were taken back to the arsenal, rebored, rebarreled, and with a tube for cleaning gear whose cap is the bayonet mount for a standard CETME bayo installed in the forearm. So the active-duty infantry regiments got the new Spanish Ladies first, and the other military & civil units, from the reserves, to the police, to the Navy and the Air Force, got FR-8s (the Air Force) and FR-7s (everyone else). I understood that the story was, when the Spanish Army adopted the CETME as their main battle rifle, they didn't have enough to equip everyone from the git-go. The FR-8 was rebuilt from Spanish Model 98s in 8mm Mauser (Gewehr 98Ks in all but name), and the FR-7 from Model 93s in 7x57 Mauser, which was the Spanish standard at the time of the Spanish-American War. Big Dog, my understanding is that they were rebored and rebarreled vintage bolt actions.
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