How Do I Choose the Best Varmint Rifle Scope?
The Mauser 98k carbine was a standard weapon of Nazi German snipers in World War II. In order to avoid losing the resistance after removing the scope, the gun is also equipped with a mechanical sight. In production, choose the best barrel for rifles with scopes. The triggers of these rifles were modified, with a trigger force of 1.8kg, and their opponent was the Soviet Mosin-Nagan sniper rifle.
Mauser 98K sniper rifle
- William Mauser and Peter Paul Mauser were born into a family of firearm craftsmen, and from an early age they followed his father as an apprentice at the Royal Prussian Arsenal. In hard times, he has accumulated a lot of practical experience. With their hard work, superb craftsmanship, and keen business sense, they founded the Mauser Weapon Factory in 1872 and began long-term cooperation with the Prussian Empire and later Germany.
- Before the Type 98 rifle, Mauser had produced a variety of rifles and was used in large quantities. In 1871, the Prussian army was already equipped with a direct-acting single-shot rifle invented by the Mauser brothers, named the 1871 rifle. In 1888, the magazine-type rifle designed by Mauser to launch smokeless gunpowder was adopted by the Germans as a standard rifle, named the 1888 rifle. It was also the first rifle used by the Germans to use smokeless powder. However, because the gun exposed several serious flaws during the use of the army, it was very unreliable in safety and caused many complaints. At the same time, Mauser had to start designing a new, more secure rifle. Affected by the Spanish 7mm Mauser 93 rifle, Mauser began developing new rifles. Despite the shortcomings of the 1888 rifle, it still provided valuable experience for the later Type 98.
- On April 5, 1898, after seven months of continuous experimentation and improvement, the design of the Type 98 rifle was finally completed. This design using 7.92 * 57mm ammunition, called "Model98" (Type 98), is a major achievement in the history of world firearms, and even more than a century later, the structure of this design is still retained in many firearm products . Soon, under the order of the Emperor of Prussia, this weapon was adopted as standard equipment for all German Army forces, named the Mauser 1898 rifle. Since then, the Mauser 98 rifle has officially entered the stage of history.
- In the early 1930s, Germany was busy re-arming its troops and focusing on the development of tanks, aircraft and other weapons and equipment. The German Supreme Command decided not to replace the Type 98 rifle, but to shorten it and use it as standard equipment for the German army. For commercial reasons, Mauser was able to provide the model required by the military in a short period of time.
- Soon, in 1935, this improved, shortened barrel Mauser rifle (Mauser 98k) was adopted by the German Wehrmacht. This was also the last Mauser rifle used by the German Wehrmacht. K98K means Mauser 1898 short carbine. K means "Kurz", which means "short" in German. Therefore, its length is longer than that of the Germans in the [1]
- According to the book "German Army Weapons and Secret Weapons from 1933 to 1945" by Fritz Hahn, during this period the army received a total of 129,468 (note: the original 127741, I am afraid there are errors)
- The Mauser 98k sniper rifle can be equipped with 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 4x, and 6x sights. At that time, German optical sights were very developed. The Kar 98K sniper with a 4x scope can accurately shoot targets at 400 meters. If a 6x scope is selected, it can shoot at 1000 meters