Gewehr 98
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gewehr-98-178-12954291
title:
Gewehr 98
text:
The Gewehr 98 is a bolt-action rifle made by Mauser for the German Empire as its service rifle from 1898 to 1935. The Gewehr 98 action, using a 5-round 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 United Kingdom, United States, and Japan. The Gewehr 98 replaced the earlier Gewehr 1888 as the main German service rifle. It first saw combat in the C
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
German service rifle from 1898 to 1935
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_98
date created:
2005-06-11T03:08:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T18:37:02Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Gewehr_98_noBG.jpg","width":1200,"height":480}
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13
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