The design was the brainchild of Paul Mauser, a German designer who had experience ... was then the cutting edge of repeating military rifles, the bolt action. Mauser started working on his ...

Ironically, Paul Mauser lost his left eye in a rifle-testing incident three years after the Model 98 was accepted by the German military. After having developed perhaps the safest bolt-action ...

At the outbreak of World War II, the German Army fielded two infantry small arms: the Karabiner Modell 1898 kurz, otherwise known as the 98k bolt action carbine, and the MP series of submachine guns.

The Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 bolt-action rifle combined a simple design ... World War II. In 1932, the Red Army pulled Mosin-Nagants from assembly lines to modify them as sniper rifles.