Magazine bolt-action rifle (Mauser 98)
Fusil de cerrojo con cargador (Mauser 98)
- Date
- 1893-1898 · confidence high
- Place
- Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Credited to
- Paul Mauser
- Field
- Conflict
What it is
A bolt-action rifle with a two-lug locking bolt, an internal five-round magazine fed from stripper clips and a controlled-feed extractor, which fixed the model of the infantry bolt-action rifle. It was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935 and its concepts passed to other armies, including the British, American and Japanese.
The Gewehr 98 is the culmination of the Mausers of 1871, 1889 and 1893; magazines and lug bolts also owe much to Lee and Mannlicher.
What it led to
- the bolt-action rifles of the two world wars
- hunting and precision rifles
- the Springfield 1903 and other derivatives