Many versions of this design also were licensed to other countries, which also used to build their own versions of the G98. This version appeared in 1935 and was manufactured until the 1945 in large numbers not only by Germans, but also in numerous countries, occupied by Germans. New bullet had much better long-range ballistic, so all sights were regraduated for new ammunition.ĭuring the interwar period this fine design was slightly altered to became the K98k - Karbiner Kurz, or short carbine - a somewhat shorter, lighter and handier version of the original one. In the 1904 Germans were first to introduce the new, 'spitzer' bullet (with pointed tip, instead of the older blunt, round-shaped tip). It was carried by Germans through the First World war, along with carbine shortened version, known as K98 (or Kar-98, from Karbiner = carbine). This rifle was designed from the experience, gained on previous Mauser designs, and was first appeared in 1898 as a standard German army infantry rifle. 98 or simply G98 (G = Gewehr, rifle in German). One of such designs, is undoubtfully a Mauser model 1898 rifle, also known as Gew.

But some of earlier Mauser works became the standards against which all others designs are judged, even after some 100 years after its introduction. Some years after the WW2, the Mauser company was restored in the West Germany and continued to build firearms, but mostly a larger-caliber ones, like the aircraft cannons etc. The Mauser company, established by the two Mauser brothers, established its reputation in firearms making in the last decades of the XIX century, and continued to build a very well thought-out and skillfully built firearms until the end of the World War 2.

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