Few rifles have influenced firearm design and military history as much as the Mauser 98.Adopted by the German army in 1898 to replace the 1888 “Commission” rifle, the Mauser Gewehr 98 and ...

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.