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No 23 - Mauser 98

This particular rifle has German Nazi markings and was captured by the Russian army.

 

The Gewehr 98 (abbreviated G98, Gew 98, or M98) is a German bolt action rifle made by Mauser firing cartridges from a 5-round internal clip-loaded magazine. It was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k, a shorter weapon using the same basic design. The Gewehr 98 action, using a stripper clip loaded with the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge, successfully combined and improved several bolt action engineering concepts which were soon adopted by many other countries including the UK, Japan, and the US.[2] The Gewehr 98 replaced the earlier Gewehr 1888 as the main German service rifle. It first saw combat in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and was the main German infantry service rifle of World War I. The Gewehr 98 saw further military use by the Ottoman Empire and Nationalist Spain.

Type:  Bolt-action rifle

Place of origin:  German Empire

Service history:

In service:  1898–1935

Designer:  Paul Mauser

Designed:  1895

Manufacturer:  MauserDeutsche Waffen und MunitionsfabrikenHaenelSauer & Sohn, Waffenwerke Oberspree, V. Chr. Schilling Co., Simson, Imperial Arsenals of AmbergDanzigErfurtLeipzig, and Spandau

Produced:  1898–1918

No. built:  9,000,000+[1]

Variants:  K98a, K98b, kar98 az (used by Stürmtruppen in World War 1)

Specifications

Mass:  4.09 kg (9.0 lb) with empty magazine Gewehr 98
3.50 kg (7.7 lb) Karabiner 98a

Length:  1,250 mm (49.2 in) Gewehr 98
1,090 mm (42.9 in) Karabiner 98a

Barrel length:  740 mm (29.1 in) Gewehr 98
590 mm (23.2 in) Karabiner 98a

Cartridge:  M/88 until 1903, 7.92×57mm Mauser later

Action:  Bolt action

Rate of fire:  15 rounds/minute

Muzzle velocity:  639 m/s (2,096 ft/s) with M/88
878 m/s (2,881 ft/s) with 1903 pattern 9.9 g (154 gr) ball ammunition

Effective firing range:  500 m (550 yd) (with iron sights)
≥800 m (870 yd) (with optics)

Maximum firing range:  3,735 m (4,080 yd) with S Patrone

Feed system:  5 round stripper clips in an internal box magazine

More Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_98

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