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Is the Mauser 98 rifle the same as Kar98 rifle?


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It helps that I happen to own a crateload of the things...literally. They're in a crate, in the back. I say this about a lot of different guns, which I also happen to own in crateloads. Except the MP-40 Schmeissers, I own several crateloads of those. Original SS packaging and shipping bill. Unfortunately, I don't know German, so I have no clue what exactly it's about.
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anyone have an answer to my question? its something that really bugs me.

 

had there been a kar98k without a scope i would have equipped the german soldiers with it in my mod, but thre is none. so they'll have to live with the 33-40...

 

so i would like to know what it is

 

I was wondering about that too so I did a quick search and this is what I found:

"The Model 33/40 is the German version of the Czech Model 33 Carbine and was manufactured at Brno in occupied Czechoslovakia. Used by German mountain and paratroop divisions, some have a metal attachment on the left side to assist mountain and ski troops."

 

https://www.rememuseum.org.uk/arms/rifles/armmoc.htm

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Hi guys.

I'm from germany and can tell you that the Kar stands for Karabiner(carabine) and it was the main weapon of the german Wehrmacht used in many varieties, though I'm absolutely no WW2 expert.

Mauser was a rifle designer like Kalashnikov from russia.

More infos will give you two links I found with google.

 

https://www.gunsandammomag.com/rugers_guntalk/guntalk/

 

https://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation...3_Springfields/

 

How much zoom would they got with this funny little scope?

https://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/ak003578/

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I have some other additional information for you guys. I'm some kind of a weapons expert... :P

 

The "Deutsches Gewehr Modell 98 (Mauser)" (that is the full name of the M98) is, as mentioned before, a weapon mainly used in WWI, but also in some units in WWII. Gewehr means rifle and is longer than a carabine. It was about 1.25m in lenght, which is extremly long for a small arm weapon.

 

The "Deutsches Gewehr Modell 98k" (k stays for "kurz" which means short) was the carabine-version and was only 1.11m in size. It was the main weapon for the German soldier during WWII.

 

For the 33/40 version I have no additional info, as all has been said before.

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well in my new mod (coming out in about a week or two) i have replaced the 33-40 rifles with "kar98k" rifles...

i have used the polish mauser m29 for the regular kar98k and the standard kar98ksniper for the sniper version...

the 33-40 sniper is still there, but the regular 33-40 rifle is gone completely.

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