Curious if the sling on the 1893 is original
The sling is incorrect from what little shows. It appears to be a 1903 Springfield US sling. On my 1895 Chilean Mausers I got this type of sling with the rifles when Gander Mountain sold tons of 1895 rifles at $165 back around 2007/8????
For what I think is a correct sling is also found on 1916 rifles, see
http://www.rollanet.org/~stacyw/spanish ... _sling.htm
http://www.casewickantiques.net/ISA122.html
But some also had a square buckleon a very old sling, so which one is correct is unknown to me. See this square buckle sling.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Spanish-Maus ... 2062658805
Back in the day 2007, the rifles at the Gander store, about 30-40 rifles at each store had matching and non matching specimens some with and without slings. My two matching, 1895 long rifle, Chilean mausers had the curved buckle sling with well worn leather. All rifles had cleaning rods. Now some of the dogs were converted to .308, most others were original caliber 7mm mauser. Both calibers were offered at that time.
This came out ,
http://dutchman.rebooty.com/1895Chile.html , and all of the .308 rifles went to the Green bay store and were sold off to someplace due to possible safety/libility concerns around late 2009. I never saw any of the 1893 versions.
To old to fight and to old to run, a Jar head will just shoot and be done with you.