As stated by Robert W.D. Ball in his epic tome Mauser: Military Rifles of the World, the Gewehr 98 was adopted on April 5, 1898, and it was truly the finest in German engineering at the time.

for 210,000 rifles. Total production of the Gewehr 98 by the end of the First World War exceeded five million. While not as common as even a decade ago, it is hard not to find a Mosin Nagant at ...

Following a trend that had begun with the British Army's Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE), which proved better suited to the trench warfare of World War I than the longer rifles of the era ...