Few rifles have influenced firearm design and military history as much as the Mauser 98.Adopted by the German army in 1898 to replace the 1888 “Commission” rifle, the Mauser Gewehr 98 and ...

The weapon was based on the prewar Yugoslav Mauser M.1924K (cavalry carbine equipped with a turned down bolt handle) with some details taken from the German carbine K98k (sling swivels). The rifle was ...

Recently, while chatting with a contact at a big miniatures firm about the various delightful boxes of plastic they had coming up, they shared a hypothesis that there are two kinds of miniature ...

There are some guns that just look right, the standard German army rifle of WWII the venerable Mauser K98k is one of those guns. Real WWII guns are hard to find now and the full-bore cartridge, the ...

This is just a potted history I am no expert, for detailed text please read , Peter Senich`s “The German Sniper” or Richard Law’s “Sniper Variations of the German K98K rifle”, and numerous others on ...

The K98k was already code-named System Adalbert, so naturally the scoped rifle was christened Adalbert b. A quick turnaround was possible because the H.Za, the German Army Ordnance Bureau ...

Check out the rest of the list in the video below: Also on the list is Germany’s Karabiner 98k. The K98k was the standard issue service weapon of the German armed forces during WWII. To serve as the ...

The MAS 36 has a 17-inch bayonet attached, which is released by a spring plunger. The German Mauser K98k was adopted by the German Army in 1934. It is a controlled-feed, bolt action short carbine, ...