What rifle did the yugoslavian partisans use?

Answer 1

Most partisan forces seldom have a single source of arms and must make do with whatever they can acquire. The various partisans in Yugoslavia were variously armed with a mix of Pre-War Yugoslavian rifles from Pre-First World War Serbian, Mexican and Turkish sources, all converted to fire a 7.9 x 57mm cartridge, and two sets of rifles from Belgian and Czech sources that were ordered in the 1920s and '30s. Most of these had a Mauser-type action.

Captured firearms from Bulgarian, German, Hungarian and Italian sources were common as well; perhaps with the Mauser Kar-98 being the most popular because of its reliability and the availability of stocks from Bosnian, Croatian and Albanian units that had been armed by the Germans. Italian rifles would have been widely available after Italian surrender in September 1943.

Increasingly in 1944, both the Western Allies and the Soviets were in a position to offer a third source of rifles -- further complicating an already byzantine supply situation.

Interestingly, the most common rifles in partisan hands must have been the M1922 FN produced rifles and Mauser Kar-98s, as both were still provided with ammunition and refurbishment by Yugoslavian arms factories in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.