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Mauser Gewehr 1898
The Gewehr 98 rifle was the final development in Mauser's line of turn-bolt rifles. First patented by Paul Mauser in 1896, it was adopted by the Imperial German Army in 1898. The Gew.98 action featured cock-on-opening, meaning that the cocking piece was forced back (and thus the mainspring compressed) by camming with an inclined-plane cut into the circular wall of the bolt body. Furthermore, the diameter of the receiver ring was increased by 1/8" (3.18mm), allowing the receiver to withstand greater chamber pressures.
The Gew. 98 incorporated several new safety features designed to cope with a burst cartridge. First, the receiver incorporated a ring of metal that would surround the bolt head between the locking lugs and the chamber face when the bolt was fully locked. This was to prevent the gasses from a burst cartridge from forcing the bolt head apart and traveling down the bolt raceway. The bolt body also had two large holes in the wall of the bolt, which allowed gasses from a breached primer to vent laterally out of the side of the bolt, rather than compressing and deforming the mainspring. In case the primary locking lugs gave way, a third locking lug was placed on the rear of the bolt body, which was designed to engage a recess in the bottom of the receiver and prevent the bolt from moving backward. In the event that burst gasses did escape into the bolt raceway, a large flange was designed into the front of the bolt shroud, which would deflect the gasses away from the shooter's face.
The design retained the 29.1" barrel of previous Mauser long rifles, but featured a new rear v-notch quadrant sight now known as the Lange-Visier. A very short handguard extended from the sight base to the lower barrel band, and the buttstock featured a pistol grip for more comfortable shooting. The Gew. 98 also featured a new bayonet lug projecting forward from the forend of the stock, which allowed the bayonet to be mounted closer to the centreline of the bore.
After World War 1, the Weimar Republic adopted the Gew. 98 for the 100,000-man Reichswehr allowed them under the Treaty of Versailles. The Lange sight was replaced with a conventional v-notch tangent-leaf sight, which would be retained on the later Kar98b, Mauser Standard-Modell, and the Kar98k. Other variants based on the Gew. 98 can be found on the Mauser Rifle Series page.
Specifications
(1898 - 1918)
Type: Battle Rifle
Weight: Gewehr 98: 9 lbs (4.1 kg), Karabiner 98a: 7.7 lbs (3.5 kg)
Length: Gewehr 98: 49.2 in (125 cm), Karabiner 98a: 42.9 in (109 cm)
Barrel length: Gewehr 98: 29.1 in (74 cm), Karabiner 98a: 23.2 in (59 cm)
Cartridge: 7.92x57mm Mauser
Capacity: 5 round internal magazine fed with 5-round stripper clips
Fire modes: Bolt action
The Mauser Gewehr 1898 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batalion | WWI German soldiers | 2015 | ||
| Stalingrad | A German soldier | 2013 | ||
| Emden Men | German Sailors | 2012 | ||
| War Horse | German troops | 2011 | ||
| War Horse | Nicolas Bro | Friedrich | 2011 | |
| My Best Enemy | SS guards | 2011 | ||
| Hans Kloss. Stawka wieksza niz smierc | WWII German mariner patrolman | 2012 | ||
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Polish troops / Red Army soldiers | 2011 | ||
| Beneath Hill 60 | WWI German Soldiers | 2010 | ||
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | WWI German soldier | 2009 | ||
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Liev Schreiber | Victor Creed | During melee fight in WW1 | 2009 |
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Hugh Jackman | James Howlett | During melee fight in WW1 | 2009 |
| Spoils of War | 2009 | |||
| Mutant Chronicles | Thomas Jane | Maj. 'Mitch' Hunter | Modified into Sci-Fi rifle | 2009 |
| The Red Baron | German soldiers | 2008 | ||
| Hitler's Kaput! (Gitler kaput!) | German soldiers | 2008 | ||
| Mutant Chronicles | Devon Aoki | Cpl. Valerie Duval | Modified into Sci-Fi rifle | 2009 |
| The Bridge | François Goeske | Albert Mutz | 2008 | |
| The Bridge | Lars Steinhöfel | Walter Forst | 2008 | |
| The Bridge | Alexander Becht | Ernst Scholten | 2008 | |
| The Bridge | Florian Heppert | Siegi Lindner | 2008 | |
| The Bridge | German soldiers | 2008 | ||
| The Bridge | Daniel Axt | Juergen Neuhaus | with scope | 2008 |
| Frontier(s) | Patrick Ligardes | Karl | 2007 | |
| Days of Glory | Roschdy Zem | Messaoud | with Zeiss ZF42 scope and curved bolt handle | 2006 |
| Days of Glory | Bernard Blancan | Sergent Roger Martinez | with Zeiss ZF42 scope and curved bolt handle | 2006 |
| Flyboys | WWI German soldiers | 2006 | ||
| The Wind That Shakes The Barley | IRA Members | 2006 | ||
| King Kong | SS Venture Crew | 2005 | ||
| Joyeux Noel | Benno Fürmann | Nikolaus Sprink | 2005 | |
| A Very Long Engagement | WWI German soldiers | 2004 | ||
| The Lost Battalion | WWI German Sniper | Fitted with telescopic sight | 2001 | |
| Uprising | SS soldiers | 2001 | ||
| Three Kings | Shiite Refugees | 1999 | ||
| Bataan | WWII Japanese Soldiers | Impersonating Arisakas | 1998 | |
| Legionnaire | Rif/Berber Horsemen | 1998 | ||
| Legionnaire | Kamel Krifa | Abd-El Krim | 1998 | |
| Anaconda | Jennifer Lopez | Terri Flores | 1997 | |
| Capitaine Conan | Bulgarian soldiers | 1996 | ||
| Michael Collins | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | IRA Sniper | 1996 | |
| The Quest | Dobbs' men and Turk smugglers | 1996 | ||
| Nemesis 2: Nebula | Sue Price | Alex Sinclair | 1995 | |
| Legends of the Fall | WWI German soldiers | 1994 | ||
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | WWI German soldiers | 1986 | ||
| Never Say Never Again | North African Bandits | 1986 | ||
| The Jewel Of The Nile | Arab Tribesmen | 1985 | ||
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Chinese Soldier at Airport | 1984 | ||
| Sahara | Nomadic tribes fighters | 1983 | ||
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | Gérard Rinaldi | Alfred | 1983 | |
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | Jean Sarrus | Emile | 1983 | |
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | Gérard Filipelli | Marcel | 1983 | |
| Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie) | German soldiers | 1983 | ||
| The Big Red One | Seen on ground | 1980 | ||
| The Stuntman | WWI German soldiers | 1980 | ||
| The Passage | Malcolm McDowell | Capt. von Berkow | 1979 | |
| Marcel Bozzuffi | Perea | |||
| German soldiers | ||||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | WWI German soldiers | 1979 | ||
| Go Tell the Spartans | James Hong | The Old Man | 1978 | |
| The Island of Dr Moreau | Burt Lancaster | Dr. Paul Moreau | Commercial model | 1977 |
| The Eagle Has Landed | WWII German soldiers | 1976 | ||
| Smoke and Shorty (Smok i Malysh) | A prospector | 1976 | ||
| The Land That Time Forgot | Doug McClure | Bowen Tyler | 1975 | |
| The Land That Time Forgot | John McEnery | Capt. Friedrich von Schoenvorts | 1975 | |
| The Land That Time Forgot | Keith Barron | John Bradley | 1975 | |
| The Wind and the Lion | Berber warriors | 1975 | ||
| The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil) | WWII German soldiers | 1975 | ||
| The Odessa File | WWII German soldiers | Flashback Scenes | 1974 | |
| The Last Four Days | Italian partisans | 1974 | ||
| Zeppelin | WWI German soldiers | 1971 | ||
| You Can't Win 'Em All | greek soldiers | 1970 | ||
| The Battle of Neretva | Ustasha patrol and partisans | 1969 | ||
| The Green Berets | Mike Force soldier | 1968 | ||
| The Last Adventure | Found in the old arsenal | 1967 | ||
| Is Paris Burning? | German soldiers | 1966 | ||
| Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) | Anna Karina | Marianne Renoir | With a Scope | 1965 |
| Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) | OAS members | Fitted with a scope and suppressor | 1965 | |
| Behold A Pale Horse | Guardia Civil | 1964 | ||
| Behold A Pale Horse | Gregory Peck | Manuel Artiguez | Fitted with a scope and suppressor | 1964 |
| The Train | German soldiers & French resistance | 1964 | ||
| 55 Days at Peking | German soldiers, Chinese troops and "Boxers" | 1963 | ||
| Lawrence of Arabia | Turkish Soldiers | 1962 | ||
| The World in My Pocket | U. S. Military Police | 1961 | ||
| Five Branded Women | Carla Gravina | Mira | 1960 | |
| Five Branded Women | German soldiers, Italian partisans | 1960 | ||
| Forty-Four Mutineers | Juraj Sarvas | Viktor Kolibec | 1959 | |
| Forty-Four Mutineers | Dusan Blaskovic | Tono Mikles | 1959 | |
| Forty-Four Mutineers | Austria Hungarian Soldiers | 1959 | ||
| Carve Her Name With Pride | French Resistance Fighter | 1958 | ||
| Ice Cold in Alex | German soldiers, bedouins | Converted to carbine lenght | 1958 | |
| And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) | German and French soldiers | 1957 | ||
| Between Heaven and Hell | Japanese soldiers | 1956 | ||
| Desert Rats, The | German soldiers | in one scene shown with bolt pulled back | 1953 | |
| Action B (Akce B) | Czech insurgent | 1952 | ||
| Go for Broke! | German soldier | 1951 | ||
| Wolves' Lairs (Vlcie diery) | German sniper | 1948 | ||
| Golden Earrings | German soldiers | 1947 | ||
| Dead Reckoning | Seen propped against couch | 1947 | ||
| The Story of G.I. Joe | WWII German Soldier | 1945 | ||
| The Fighting Seabees | Japanese soldiers | Some equipped with the sniper scopes and flash hiders | 1944 | |
| Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (Ivan Nikulin - Russkiy Matros) | Mikhail Rumyantsev | Italian soldier | 1944 | |
| Sahara | German soldiers | 1943 | ||
| Immortal Sergeant | Italian and German soldiers | 1943 | ||
| Hangmen Also Die! | German soldiers, SS men | 1943 | ||
| Gung Ho! | IJA Soldier | 1943 | ||
| Native Shores (Rodnye berega) | German soldiers | 1943 | ||
| T-9 Submarine (Podvodnaya lodka T-9) | German and Finnish soldiers | 1943 | ||
| Somewhere in France | German soldiers | 1942 | ||
| Sergeant York | WWI German soldiers | 1941 | ||
| Sundown | Emmett Smith | Kipsang | 1941 | |
| Sundown | Bruce Cabot | William Crawford | 1941 | |
| Sundown | George Sanders | Major A.L. Coombes | 1941 | |
| Sundown | Bruce Cabot | William Crawford | 1941 | |
| Sundown | Tribe fighters | 1941 | ||
| In the Rear of the Enemy (V tylu vraga) | Finnish soldiers | 1941 | ||
| The Fighting 69th | WWI German soldiers | 1940 | ||
| La Bandera | Jean Gabin | Pierre Gilieth | 1935 | |
| La Bandera | Raymond Aimos | Marcel Mulot | 1935 | |
| La Bandera | Legionnaires | 1935 | ||
| Shock Troop | German soldiers | 1934 | ||
| The First Platoon (Pervyy vzvod) | German soldiers | 1933 | ||
| Hell on Earth | German soldier | 1931 | ||
| Dishonored | Austro-Hungarian soldiers | 1931 | ||
| Sniper | German, Russian and British soldiers | 1931 | ||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | WWI German soldiers | 1930 | ||
| Westfront 1918 | WWI German soldiers | 1930 | ||
| Hell's Angels | WWI German soldiers | 1930 | ||
| Journey's End | German soldiers | 1930 | ||
| The New Babylon | French officers | anachronistic | 1929 | |
| Verdun: Visions of History | German soldiers | 1928 | ||
| Four Sons | German soldiers | 1928 | ||
| Wings | WWI German soldiers | 1927 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reilly: Ace of Spies | John Castle | Count Massino | 1983 | |
| Anzacs | German & Turkish troops | 1985 | ||
| Rebel Heart | IRA fighter | 2001 | ||
| Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Robert Carlyle | Adolf Hitler | 2003 | |
| The Somme – From Defeat to Victory | German soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Birdsong | German soldiers | 2012 | ||
| The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) | Soldiers of several armies | 2012 | ||
| The Man in the High Castle | Greater Nazi Reich soldiers | 2015 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medal of Honor: Underground | 2000 | ||
| Battlefield: 1918 | 2004 | ||
| Peter Jacksons King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie | 2005 | ||
| Darkest of Days | 2009 | ||
| The Saboteur | Steiner Rifle | 2009 | |
| NecroVisioN | 2009 | ||
| NecroVisioN: Lost Company | 2010 | ||
| The Great War 1918 | 2013 | ||
| Verdun | Gewehr '98 | 2015 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey - Outside Legend | 2002 | ||
| Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo | 2004-2005 |