Mauser G98

     
Název:
Name:
Mauser G98 Mauser G98
Originální název:
Original Name:
Mauser G98
Kategorie:
Category:
opakovací puška repeating rifle
Výrobce:
Producer:
DD.MM.1898-DD.MM.1918 Waffenfabrik Mauser AG, Oberndorf am Neckar
DD.MM.1898-DD.MM.1918 Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken Aktien-Gesellschaft, Berlín
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR J. P. Sauer und Sohn GmbH, Suhl
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR Waffenwerke Oberspree Kornbusch & Co, ?
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR C. G. Haenel Waffen-und Fahrrad-Fabrik, Suhl
Technické údaje:
Technical Data:
 
Hmotnost nenabité zbraně:
Weight Unloaded:
4.09 kg 9.02 lb
Ráže:
Calibre:
7,92 mm
Náboj:
Cartridge:
8 x 57 IS, 8 x 57 I do roku 1903 / until 1903
Délka:
Length:
1250 mm 4 ft 1 ¼ in
Délka hlavně:
Barrel Length:
740 mm 2 ft 5 ⅛ in
Kapacita zásobníku:
Magazine Capacity:
5
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Rychlost střelby:
Rate of Fire:
- ran/min - rpm
Úsťová rychlost:
Muzzle Velocity:
896 1) m/s 2939.6 1) ft/s
Uživatelské státy:
User States:














...














...
Poznámka:
Note:
ozačována také jako Gewehr 98 (zkráceně G98, Gew 98 nebo M98)

1) 639 m/s s nábojem 8x57J
also known as Gewehr 98 (abbreviated G98, Gew 98 or M98)

1) 2096.5 with 8x57J cartridge
Zdroje:
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_98

URL : https://www.valka.cz/Mauser-G98-t28941#614675 Version : 0
Mauser G98


History
Although the excellent and modern rifles of the design of Paul Mauser(27.6.1838 - 29.5.1914) had been produced and exported to several countries for many years in batches of hundreds of thousands (Belgian Model 1889, Turkish Model 1890, Argentine Model 1891, Spanish Model 1891), Imperial Germany was only commission rifle M1888 8 mm calibre, which was far behind the Mauser repeating rifles. It was only the commercial success of the latest Mauser rifle (Spanish and Turkish Model 1893) in 1893 that made the officers of the Rifle Test Commission take an interest in Mauser repeaters.


In January 1895, the commission ordered 2,000 of the test rifles in 7.9 mm caliber (8x57J cartridge) and with a jacketed barrel. The gun was based on the 1893 Spanish model, was 1240 mm long, with a 740 mm barrel and weighed 4.0 kg. The barrel bore was formed by four right-handed, 0.12 mm deep and 4.4 mm wide, grooves with a pitch of 240 mm.
A year later, the commission ordered another 2,000 rifles, this time without barrel shrouds, but experimentally chambered for the 6 mm Lee Navy cartridge (in 1895 this cartridge, along with the Winchester 1895 rifle, was adopted into the US Navy's armament). The gun was 1250 mm long with a 742 mm barrel and weighed 3.6 kg. An interesting feature that distinguished it from all other military Mauser rifles was the bore of the barrel, which consisted of six (!) right-handed, 0.13 mm deep, grooves with a pitch of 170 mm.
Both Model 1896 rifles were five-shot repeaters, created by improving the Spanish Model 1894 and the Swedish Model 1895.The main improvements over the latter were holes in the front of the breech, behind the locking teeth, which were intended to blow off the burnt gases in case of a primer puncture, a reinforced breech housing sleeve, and a third locking tooth at the rear of the breech that locked into the breech housing under its bridge. Also new was the adjustable tangential sight, which was now a plate sight with a sliding slide and for which Paul Mauser was granted a patent on 7 March 1896.
From the 1896 experimental model another variant was derived, in which the percussion spring was tensioned simultaneously with the breech release (in the previous model it was tensioned when the breech was locked). Another new feature was a spring-loaded pin located in the left part of the bolt lock, which prevented the bolt from turning when the bolt was opened. A patent for this feature was granted on 30 October 1895. A new method of attaching the bayonet without putting the bayonet collar on the barrel was also used on the second variant, patented on 30 October 1895.
There were 2,185 of the experimental model 1896, probably of both variants. Only two examples have survived - one in the Aberdeen Museum, the other in the Oberndorf Museum.
Tests of both rifles, in both 7.9 mm and 6 mm calibre, were conducted simultaneously and on 5 April 1898 the 7.9 mm calibre rifle, fitted with an adjustable sector sight designed by Lieutenant Colonel Lang of the Rifle Testing Commission, was accepted into the armament of the German Army by Imperial decree as the "Gewehr 98". By the same decree, the experimental rifle of the 1896 model was retroactively officially designated "Gewehr 88/97".


During the production of the Mauser 1898 rifles, minor improvements were made to the design. The first of these was a change to the firing pin, which added two opposing lugs on the firing pin mounting for the percussion spring, preventing forward movement of the firing pin unless the slide was fully locked. This feature was granted German patent number 154915 on 22 May 1901. Guns with the new firing pin were unofficially called G98/02, but after all guns were retrofitted with it, this designation fell into disuse.
The next change came between 1903 and 1905, when the introduction of a new, curved, bullet cartridge (now designated 8x57JS) forced a deepening of the bore grooves to 0.12 mm (the diameter in the fields remained 8.20 mm) and an increase in the diameter of the barrel transition cone. This gave the transition cone an unusual length of 36 mm, or 4.5 calibers! These modified guns were marked by stamping the letter "S" on the upper surface of the breech sleeve. The curved projectile was also characterized by a flatter ballistic curve, which had to be taken into account by adjusting the sights - the graduation of the adjustable sight was changed, where the smallest adjustable shooting distance was 400 metres. The rifle with the new visor was called Model II, the rifle with the old visor was then, retrospectively, Model I.


The G98 rifle had its combat debut in the so-called Boxer Rebellion in Peking, China in 1900 and shortly afterwards in the suppression of the South West African rebellion from 1904 to 1905.


During the First World War when the fire was mainly conducted at a distance of less than 400 metres (the smallest value of the sight) an auxiliary, higher, sight was introduced for shooting at 150 metres.
Removable illuminated sights were introduced for shooting in low light conditions and in the dark. The new sight was mounted on the standard sight and the luminescent sight was mounted on the barrel, behind the standard sight. When aiming, the shooter saw two horizontal luminous lines, interrupted by a gap in which he had to place the luminescent point of the sight.
Another modification, introduced during the First World War, was steel discs with a hole in the middle, mounted on either side of the stock and connected to each other by a steel tube. The hole in the middle of the plate was used to support the firing pin during breech breaking and prevent damage to the firing pin.
Many of the G98 rifles produced during World War I were chambered in a two-piece stock - the buttstock and neck were made separately and attached to the front of the stock (similar to the Hungarian Mannlicher 1935 rifle). This made it possible to use scraps of wood, which would no longer be sufficient to make the whole stock, and simplified the repair of the stocks. Because of the wartime shortage of quality walnut wood, at that time stocks were also made of beech wood.
During the Great War, a sniper variant of the G98 rifle was also introduced, which was fitted with, originally a hunting rifle, a Zeiss or Hensoldt telescopic optical sight with four times magnification. In practice, however, a number of non-standard hunting or sporting telescopes were used. In addition to the mounting of the optics, the sniper rifle differed in the downward curved bolt handle and the recess in the right side of the stock above the trigger where the ball handle adjoined. The optic was attached to the weapon either by a side mount on the left side of the bolt housing or on a bridge above the bolt. The bridge mount, however, did not allow the cartridge box to be filled from the belts and provided only the space necessary for the operation of the bolt and safety itself. Very few telescopic sights have survived, however, because German soldiers were under orders to destroy all optical devices in the event of an imminent threat of capture.


The introduction of the G98 rifle into the German army's arsenal and its export success became an important impetus for the development of the entire Mauser company. If at the beginning of the 20th century Mauser had three thousand employees, by the end of 1916 there were already seven thousand (just for the record - in 1929 there were only 750 people working at the factory!)


G98 rifles were also included in the armaments of the armies of Turkey (200,000 pieces), China, Serbia, Mexico, Costa Rica and several South American countries, and many rifles were purchased by the newly formed Yugoslavia after World War I. The Czechoslovak military rifle vz.98/22 was also derived from the G98 rifle.


Radfahrer Gewehr 98
Rifle, produced during the First World War, designed for cycling units. It differs from the standard G98 by the downward curved bolt handle, the mounting of the carrying strap on the left side of the gun, and the steel marking plate instead of a bed for disassembling the bolt.


The K98, K98a and K98b carbines were also derived from the basic G98 rifle.


Construction
The Mauser G98 rifle is a repeating rifle with a rotating slide. The cartridges are housed in a double-row, fixed cartridge box located in front of the trigger guard. The box is loaded from the top using a loading belt.


The main parts of the rifle are: barrel with sights, bolt carrier, breech, cartridge box and stock.


The 600 mm barrel is fitted with four right-hand grooves, with a constant rise of 240 mm. The barrel bore was lapped after the grooves were stretched - first the grooves were lapped, then the field. The manufacturing tolerance of the bore diameter was 7.90-7.94 mm in the fields and 8.20-8.27 mm in the grooves. Sight bases and sights are also soldered to the barrel. Some guns had a muzzle recess of about 30 mm. This was done during repairs if the muzzle was damaged.


The barrel is screwed into the breech housing at the rear which connects all the basic parts of the gun into one unit. The bolt also moves in the bolt carrier. The rear of the breech block is a so-called bridge, in the front of which cutouts are milled for the loading strap. On the left side of the bridge, a spring-loaded bolt holder is screwed on, thus forming the rear breech stop.


The breech consists of the bolt, extractor, extractor ring, firing pin, firing pin spring, firing pin nut, bolt pin with spring, and safety.
There are three locking teeth in the bolt (two in the front and one in the rear) and a straight bolt handle extends from the right side of the bolt. There is a firing pin hole in the bolt face. On the right side of the bolt is a swivel extractor.
A percussion spring is threaded onto the firing pin and a firing pin nut is fitted to the rear end of the firing pin by a bayonet joint, which has a bevel at the bottom which corresponds to the bolt face in the breech face. When the bolt is turned to the left, the striker nut is pushed backwards, thereby tensioning the percussion spring. At the bottom of the striker nut rail are two teeth which serve to catch the trigger lever with the tooth.
The different parts of the bolt are connected by a cap. It houses a safety and a pin that ensures the correct position of the bolt relative to the slide and also prevents the unlocked bolt from rotating. The wing lock has three positions - left unlocked, up locked and when the wing lock is on the right it is locked and additionally the movement of the bolt is blocked.
The trigger assembly, located in the bolt housing, consists of a pin trigger, a trigger spring and a pin trigger lever. The spring pushes the trigger lever upwards where it engages the striker nut with its teeth. When the trigger is depressed, the rear of the trigger lever is lowered, the tooth comes out of the engagement and the striker nut is released. When the pressure on the trigger is released, the trigger lever returns to its original position.


The cartridge box, the body of which is one unit with the trigger guard, is bolted to the bolt carrier by two screws from below. The bottom of the box is attached to the body by a spring-loaded pin. A folded flat spring is inserted in the bottom of the box to push up the cartridge feeder. The cartridges are stacked in the box in two rows.


The stock and upper receiver are made of solid walnut or beech wood; exceptionally, the stock was made of another type of solid wood. The bolt carrier is attached to the stock by two through bolts, which also connect the carrier to the cartridge box. The barrel is attached to the stock by two barrel sleeves, with the bayonet catch protruding from the front. The recoil of the shot is transmitted to the stock by means of a square pin bed located under the cartridge chamber.
There is a breech breaker bed in the butt of the stock and the rear of the stock is protected against damage by a steel boot.



Technical data - G98 II. model
Calibre - 7.9 mm
Cartridge - 7,9 mm mod. 98 (today's designation 8x57JS)
Length - 1250 mm (L. Olson states 1240 mm, Ing.Helebrant in SM states 1255 mm)
Length with bayonet - 1500 mm
Empty weight - 4,1 kg (L. Olson states 4,0 kg)
Weight of loaded weapon with bayonet - 4,56 kg
Barrel length - 740 mm
Number of grooves in the barrel - 4
Bore pitch - 240 mm
Sense of pitch - right
Depth of grooves - 0.12 mm
Width of grooves - 4.40 mm
Velocity - 896 m/s (with 8x57J - 635 m/s)
Ammo box capacity - 5 rounds
Sight range - 400 to 2000 m (after 1918 - 100 to 2000 m)



Production
The total number of G98 rifles produced is now impossible to ascertain (among other reasons, because in 1945 the entire Mauser archive was burned by order of the American commander of the local occupation administration!!!), but there were certainly several million of them.


The G98 rifle was produced by the following factories.
- Waffenfabrik Mauser, Oberndorf
- State Armaments Factory Amberg
- Danzig State Armoury (now Gdansk, Poland)
- State Armament Factory Erfurt
- Spandau State Armoury
- Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken (DWM), Berlin
- J. P. Sauer & Sohn Waffenfabrik, Suhl
- V. Chr. Schiling
- C. G. Haenel Waffen-und Fahrrad-Fabrik, Suhl
- Simson & Co.
- Waffenwerke Oberspree Kornbusch & Co.


Markings
On the left side of the breech housing was engraved the marking "Gew. 98", on the upper surface of the breech housing sleeve was the Imperial crown, below it the name of the manufacturer and below that the full year of manufacture.

URL : https://www.valka.cz/Mauser-G98-t28941#102083 Version : 0

Diskuse

Hi


I would like to ask if the German G98's underwent any modifications in the 1930's. In fact I have one in my collection, which is distinguished from the others by the sights, which are similar to those of the carbines.


It has SPANDAU 1916 on the slide, but under the sights is the code S/42 K, which was used (as I looked it up) in 1934 by Mauser AG Oberndorf.
URL : https://www.valka.cz/Mauser-G98-t28941#387225 Version : 0

This post has not been translated to English yet. Please use the TRANSLATE button above to see machine translation of this post.

Pozrel som sa na ďalšie značky na tejto zbrani a s prekvapením som narazil na grécka písmená. Ďalšou zaujímavou vecou sú už na prvý pohľad sotva postrehnuteľné stopy po červenom pruhu, namalovanom na prednej časti predpažbia.


Moja teória je nasledovná (bol by som vďačný, keby mi ju vedel niekto potvrdiť alebo vyvrátiť):
1.- bol vyrobený v Spandau v roku 1916 a zaradený do nemeckej armády
2.- v roku 1934 na ňom boli v Obernsdorfe urobené úpravy a bol predaný do Grécka
3.- v roku 1941 bol ukoristený wermachtom a umiestnený niekam do rezerv.
(4,5.- znova predaný ???)
4.- koncom vojny bol pridelený nejakej ozbrojenej zložke mimo wermachtu (vzhľadom na spádové územie tipujem, že mohlo ísť o maďarskú)


Ten posledný bod je možno trocha divoký, ale mám preň niekoľko dôvodov. Z 5 G98-čiek, ktoré mám v zbierke má tento pruh každá, okrem jednej, čo má prejímaciu značku nacistického wermachtu. Tento pruh majú aj iné pušky: juhoslovanská vz.24, maďarská M43 a jedna G-41. Nuž a v neposlednom rade je spádovou oblasťou zbierky juhozápadné Slovensko, ktoré bolo v tom čase obsadené Maďarskom.
URL : https://www.valka.cz/Mauser-G98-t28941#387668 Version : 0
Discussion post Fact post
Attachments

Join us

We believe that there are people with different interests and experiences who could contribute their knowledge and ideas. If you love military history and have experience in historical research, writing articles, editing text, moderating, creating images, graphics or videos, or simply have a desire to contribute to our unique system, you can join us and help us create content that will be interesting and beneficial to other readers.

Find out more