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Gewehr 98: The Bolt Action That Built the Modern Rifle

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:09.757Z

The Gewehr 98 doesn't get enough credit in everyday gun conversations — people talk about the 1903 Springfield or the Winchester Model 70 like they materialized out of thin air. They didn't. There's a pretty direct line back to a gunsmith in Oberndorf who lost an eye to one of his own earlier designs and spent the rest of his career making sure that couldn't happen again. The Gew. 98 was the safest bolt-action in military service anywhere at its introduction, incorporating lessons learned fr...

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Gewehr 98: The Bolt Action That Built the Modern Rifle

The Gewehr 98—abbreviated Gew. 98 and sometimes called the Mauser 98—is the bolt-action military rifle that became the standard service arm of the Imperial German Army in April 1898. Chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser, it served through two World Wars and

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