Forgotten Weapons
Published 11 Jun 2016Sold at auction for $1,840 (w/ 5 other rifles).
The Gewehr 1898 was the product of a decade of bolt action repeating rifle improvements by the Mauser company, and would be the standard German infantry rifle through both World Wars. Today we are looking at a pre-WWI example (1905 production) that shows all the features of what a German soldier would have taken to war in 1914.
July 26, 2020
Gewehr 98: The German WWI Standard Rifle
Comments Off on Gewehr 98: The German WWI Standard Rifle
No Comments
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.