I have a Kar 98k with a 1916 Spandau receiver...the fact that it survived the Great War, the Weimar Republic, the second world war AND 'Bubba' is amazing and makes it one of my favorite rifles in my collection...
I have a Gewehr 98 that was manufactured by Oberspree in 1916, right before the factory was bought out by DWM. It also received the 1920 government stamp so it's likely it saw service with the Reichswehr in the Wiemar Republic before it was sent off to to Spain for use during the civil war. This rifle definitely got around and saw a lot of history!
*Othias:* "If intimidation were the number one decider in a war, I don't know that you can beat the appearance of this thing." *T-Gewehr:* HOLD MY BEER!
@@davitdavid7165 Actually, a T-Gewehr with a 25-round mag isn't all that completely useless of an idea. Especially when the enemy tanks keep coming and coming and...😉
@charlestaylor253 nah. You need to carry the thing to the taks and get up close and there is a big chance you would die in the process with the tgewehr. A 25r 13mm would be incredibly heavy, it would make going prone very difficult and the extra cost of producing that thing would exhaust the German factories even faster, leading to fewer guns reaching the front. And because of the recoil of the thing, each crew could only fire a single digit amount of rounds, so even in deal conditions it would be useless weight. All I will say is: there is a reason the later anti tank rifles were given a capacity of around 5 max and even the barret 50 is issued with only a 10rounder.
5:44 "thats a weird lookin horse." I laughed out loud at that. It sounds like it was added "in post" rather than actually scripted. Also, othais has never sounded more southern than that 1 simple sentence. LOL
Huh, 804,5 metres in 4 min 25 s...that makes it 3 m/s, or 10,9 km/h. You're good, my average is about 10,5 km/h. (I don't have a treadmill, I just use the plain boring countryside.)
Watching this with a Bluetooth speaker in the shed where I clean my guns. My wife was taking the dog out right at the point Mae was loading the rifle. All she heard was a females heavy breathing coming from my speaker, and so she burst in. Then boom! "Oh just some more gun porn? ", "yes dear"
This was clearly the last rifle they shot that day, holy crap Mae seems exhausted Salute her sacrifice....of shooting 100+ year old unicorns most people will never even see.
These episodes are thoroughly researched, well presented, interesting and educational, but the best part is always the final scene and sound effects of the "WAR WERE DECLARED" clips.
Othias: "Mauser Gew98, often considered to be the best bolt-action military rifle." James Paris Lee: "Theys fightin words." Ole Krag: "Can I watch?" Leon Nagant: "I'll wait in the car."
@@homemadetech5712 Really? Wow that is completely new information! Please do bless us with more pearls of wisdom Professor. Tell me, is the pope Catholic? What colour is gold? Which way is "up"?
lordsummerisle87 dude chill out, why you so fucking stuck up? They way you wrote it sounded like you thought those two rifles were better. If not, you are just shitty at telling jokes
Hey, I just want to say that I love this show, I just found it today, which today being the 8th of November, and I plan to go through and watch every other episode (I have watched at least a half dozen or more already...). While I love shows like this that talks about historical weapons, I am a bit more knowledgeable on WW2 weaponry than I am on WW1 Weaponry, I take every chance afforded me to learn new things, especially on topics I know little or nothing about. Thank you very much Othias and Mae, and I will look forward to future episodes. :)
"By 1915 the Gewehr 98 cost the government roughly 65 Marks to produce. At Oberspree, it cost only... 250. The project was an abysmal failure." I saw something like that coming from the lead-in about what the factory was meant to accomplish, and it _still_ clobbered me. :)
There was similar rifle In NRA museum, it was fitted with both dust cover, box magazine and additionaly low-magnification optical sight fixed on "roller coaster". I wonder how common was these modifications in frontline trenches.
You got the bayonet out on the lightbox, showed it off... but you didn't hand it over to Mae to give a live fire demonstration :( How will we know if it's accurate and effective?
While we sneacky British , with a short rifle, had a cunning plan! We made a longer bayonet! Which to quote, as the Brtish always do on these occasions, Lance Copral Jones of the Home Gaurd 'They don't like it up'em'!
The German rifles are not sighted with the bayonet on, the idea is they would be fitted for a trench charge and otherwise kept on the person as a knife. Some other nations did sight the rifle with bayonet in order for it to remain fitted during line fire, this changes the point of aim fairly drastically (not just weight, balance and harmonic, but aerodynamic effects from gas charge ahead of the bullet). Part of the rational here is that unlike earlier conflicts most WW2 guns where carried with live rounds in the magazine, so a soldiers reaction if surprised (even fairly close) was to make a shot (maybe even with handgun). Likewise at short ranges when using a battle-sight notch the shift in point of aim mattered far less than long ranges where a bayonet provided no functional advantage, but still made already forwards heavy guns even moreso, and would need to be fitted when spotting an unexpected distant opponent before you could start shooting accurately, as marching with bayonet installed (especially longer types) is generally an unfavorable concept.
Where there any Karabiners equipped with the 25 round magazine? Seems like it'd be more useful on a shorter rifle used in close quarters when it's more difficult to find cover to reload rather than on a long and bulky rifle used at range.
This gun is so cool. I would have done it sliiiightly differently. Shorter mag that would allow for easy removal and prone firing. Probably 10 or 15 rounds? 21st century hindsight is 20/20. I love the dust cover!!
in the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" from Erich Maria Remarque, it is written that the recruts got taken away the saw bajonets from older Front soldiers so that the dont get killed immediately when being captured.
They saw it as a violation of the 1908 Hague Convention, which banned bayonets with more than one cutting edge. However, the Germans viewed the US M1897 Trench Shotgun as being a violation, because of it using non-jacketed lead ammunition. They also considered the seldom-encountered .455 British "Manstopper" non-jacketed pistol round as a violation for the same reason...
Another informative episode as always. And man, Mae was just exuding the same feeling towards the end of shooting the 25 rounds like with the Air Service, just make it stop.😂 34:59 And if only that other ultimate Mauser was put into mass production. That would be interesting to see and compare to its contemporaries. The German Arisaka.
"spits gesosh meed kearn" ... had to replay this 3 times - the grin in my face is still holding on as I'm typing... ;-) To watch Othais wrestle with foreign language is one of the highlights of this show - at least for me
It was good to meet you and your wife at the rally. I'll be listening to more primer episodes at the plastics factory. Thanx for all the research you do.
The one I heard was that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. I think I like yours better. FWIW,back when the Bomarc missile was in use,certain of the people involved with the project called it "the civil service missile". In that it would not work and you could not fire it. Oof.
@@paulmanson253 The other one is the Definition of an Elephant? Mil Spec mouse. The one I liked following the fire at the Logistic base in UK was requistions coming back marked FOFAD- F' Off Fire At Doddington. Though during one period I was sent to buy, on my own credit card, as much LEGO as could be found in my local town. It was used as UOR for war games, talk about Improvise Adapt and Overcome. . A friend went across to America by scheduled airline with two large empty suitcases to bring back urgent spares and drawings for Warrior IFV's during Gulf One.
@@51WCDodge Hah ! I once declared a toilet seat when crossing the border. Unobtanium, believe it or not. Robert Heinlein the science fiction writer referred to the Law of the Pyramids. As in,everything takes longer and costs more than originally anticipated.
The most important observation is seeing Mae sitting there holding the rifle at port arms and looking at her left hand and thinking " why doesn't somebody put a ring on that girls finger" . Brains, wit, humor, personality, looks, beauty..... lots of beauty, and she shoots !!! Rather well I might add. Unless it's by choice, somebody needs to step up. About the magazine, curious that there are no reinforcing ribs on it as the Air model one has and most all other magazines do. Also curious is why someone would go to all the time and trouble to develop and make such an obscure after market item. And that dust cover seems to be a telegraph to announce where the enemy should concentrate their fire. Way to noisy, added weight, slows down the cycling of the action and ultimately does little to keep out any form of water based debris
Was Mae using S munition( 154grn) or sS ( 198grn) during her 25 rd marathon? And how bad was her shoulder bruise? She is one Amazon Riflewoman! DocAV Down under.
Love you two, Mae is fearless...... even this old wolf gets banged up popping off a 25 rd mag, kept waiting for that heavy sigh cause I know exactly what those last few feel like :)
You really need to do some new episodes focused around the berthier rifles. Especially the 07/15 since it was a primary rifle of the french military in ww1
I wonder how valuable original dust covers are. I picked up a 1915 Erfurt Gew98, in about 90% condition with original dust cover and partial original sling for $125 at an auction several years ago.
God I love this channel thanks for giving me insight on this magazine extension. Your channel is the ONLY channel and place I have found useable information about this reproduction pice. I’ll definitely be getting one for my 1903 Springfield
Thank you, thank you, thank you guys! As a collector and student of “gewehrs” (as i call them, referring to Gew98’s) this actually was really good. I learned some stuff. Would LOVE to talk about these with you....
You don't need to do it that way, I have an original and it works a lot easier than this reproduction, fill it up with stripper clips and good to go. Also I can lie prone with it isn't a hassle i suspect my arms are a bit longer than Mae.
One of my Buddies had one of those "Trench" Mags... Also a repro, and also kind of a bear to load... Like you guys said... "Cool Idea", but would like to know if the original ones functioned better... Keep up the Great Work... 👍👍👍
The trench mag seems like a good addition to rifleman in the machine gun teams. They can better cover the gunner and loader when reloading or if they need to clear jams or what have you.
MMM Loading looks super simple.. Mae was huffing and grunting getting the last couple rounds in. That dust shield looks like it could get easily damaged or fall off, yet does seem effective. Overall this thing almost looks like a Bubba'd Mosing ironically... Like someone converted a 91/30 to a detachable archangel mag. Looks like a chore to shoot.
This thing looks like what would have happened if someone in Mauser R&D considered the possibility of a zombie apocalypse to me. Which, given the provenience of the design, tickles me greatly.
One of my favorite episodes 🤘. And I have one of those reproduction extended mags too and got it to fit on one of my Yugo Mausers. It's cool but same issue. Now it just sits in the back of a safe lol.
I also have an Ersatz bayonet made in 1917 and modified in the 30s to fit a Turkish M38 Mauser. I've even seen German Ersatz bayonets lent to Turkey being modified for M1 Garands!
I actually recently found a 1905 sawback bayonet poking out of a ground on a old battlefield. And the saw part was in deed filed down! I really tought that it was an myth untill then!
GunFun ZS Superficial rust, found it in a dry white sand atop of a hill. Bayonets actually hold up suprisingly well, sadly sheats not so much- had one crumble in my hands after I found it
Thank you much as allways. I like the way you present the information. I'm slowly making it through all the ones here and truly like them. Peae love & jello. TomCat
Consorten isn't a name, instead it translates directly as "Associates", and legally fills a very simlar use as "and company".. so your correct regarding the pronunciation but there isn't a factual error.
@@SheepInACart yes thanks for the lecture, i knew that, but othais and some others might be unaware hence i said what i said. never called out any factual errors did i?
Every kid on the playground: The sawback was meant to cause extra gruesome damage and injuries! Also the groove in the blade was to give blood somewhere to drain! _30 years later_ Dad: Hey son, you know why they had serrated bayonets...
I put one of the reproduction 20-round magazines on my 100% mutant Mauser which is a kar98 receiver with a I believe Yugoslavia stock roller coaster site on a carbine length barrel yeah it's weird. I did a 25 round rapid fire with it and I know why may is wearing the glove ! the rear site becomes very warm if you count blistering your fingers as very warm !
Does anyone know where you can get one of those reproduction dust covers? I've found the trench magazine, but the dust cover is proving much harder to find
Did you know that Mauser produced Gewehr 98 reproduction rifles in 1998, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Gewehr 98? I didn’t know this until now, they actually made reproductions of the most popular and the best WWI bolt action rifle. I think you can put a reproducion dust cover and reproduction trench magazine on a Gewehr 98 100th anniversary reproduction rifle. To be clear, I couldn’t find any videos of Gewehr 98 1998 reproduction rifles. I hope someone on TH-cam post a Gewehr 98 1998 replica.
@@blueofthelightanddark6273 I didn't know that either, that's really cool! I knew people were making newmade Lugers and whatnot, but not the G98. And I'm just looking for the dust cover, since I want to have a full "assault" G98 to display and shoot along with my Ottoman G88 and Austrian M95
@@danteweisend5974 ok. I don’t have or own a Gewehr 98. I’m just wondering what if someone add a repro dust cover and repro trench magazine on a fully functioning G98 replica. It would be an awesome complete set and someone would have fun, going on an assault with reproduction accessories on a 1898-1998 Mauser Oberndorf Gewehr 98 100th Anniversary rifle.
@@blueofthelightanddark6273 It would be, but sadly I don't own a G98 of any kind, much less a 100th anniversary one. Hopefully someone that has access to all of it can do it and post about it
My question is the cartridge . As we all know Imperial Germany was principally armed with the Komission Model 1888 patern Gewhr and the Karbiner 1888 in 1898, these were chambered in 7,92x57 .318 bore. Mauser The 7,92x57 .323 bore would not be introduced until the early 20th century. Thus the question is were the early Mauser Gewhr 1898 and Kar 1898 1st pattern Karabiner and the Kar 1898 2n pattern Karabiner had a bayonet bar were these early pieces not chambered in the 7,92x57 .318 bore? The Karabiner 1898 1st and 2nd patterns had the same barrel length as the Kar 1888 about 18.5 in. Barrel and both had the roller coaster rear sight graduation started at 100 meters. I know these pieces would be chambered in the 7,92x57 .323 bore for the say muzzle flash was horrendous and recoil was heavy. About a total 20,000 pieces were manufactured. This led to the Kar 98 AZ with a barrel length increase to around 24.5 inches and a tangent rear sight. The bayonet bar was moved up further just under the muzzle. Now the key difference between the Mauser Gewhr Rifle and the Kar 1898's , was the Gewhr 1898 used a large ring receiver while the Kars used a small ring receiver
I once read someone's opinion that in WW1 America fielded the best target rifle (03 Springfield), Germany fielded the best hunting rifle (K98 Mauser), & the English the best battle rifle (Lee Enfield). I have not seen anything to make me think differently.
I have a Kar 98k with a 1916 Spandau receiver...the fact that it survived the Great War, the Weimar Republic, the second world war AND 'Bubba' is amazing and makes it one of my favorite rifles in my collection...
@ Especially 'cos he (that particular Bubba) was most certainly white....
@ ...most definitely...in fact that it survived 'Bubba' was the most amazing of all its survival stories!!!
"hOw'M i GoNnA hUnT wItH nO sCoPe?"
@@thetman0068 you shot a deer at 50 meters, you want a medal for it?
whats the German equivalent of Bubba
"Hi, I'm Othais and this" *Wheek* "isn't a rifle, it's Crozier. And he's going to go over the features of this rifle over here for us."
I have a Gewehr 98 that was manufactured by Oberspree in 1916, right before the factory was bought out by DWM. It also received the 1920 government stamp so it's likely it saw service with the Reichswehr in the Wiemar Republic before it was sent off to to Spain for use during the civil war. This rifle definitely got around and saw a lot of history!
You know, it's not too often that you see Mae having a look on her face that says " What do you mean, there's still more ammo?!"
Here we go again with 20 rounds.
*Othias:* "If intimidation were the number one decider in a war, I don't know that you can beat the appearance of this thing."
*T-Gewehr:* HOLD MY BEER!
Bier*
@@grenmoyo3968 Halte mein bier. If you are going to go alles Deutsche.
With you reminding me of the tgewehr, i thought of a completely useless but verry fun idea of a tgewehr with that 25r mag.
@@davitdavid7165
Actually, a T-Gewehr with a 25-round mag isn't all that completely useless of an idea. Especially when the enemy tanks keep coming and coming and...😉
@charlestaylor253 nah. You need to carry the thing to the taks and get up close and there is a big chance you would die in the process with the tgewehr. A 25r 13mm would be incredibly heavy, it would make going prone very difficult and the extra cost of producing that thing would exhaust the German factories even faster, leading to fewer guns reaching the front. And because of the recoil of the thing, each crew could only fire a single digit amount of rounds, so even in deal conditions it would be useless weight.
All I will say is: there is a reason the later anti tank rifles were given a capacity of around 5 max and even the barret 50 is issued with only a 10rounder.
5:44 "thats a weird lookin horse."
I laughed out loud at that. It sounds like it was added "in post" rather than actually scripted. Also, othais has never sounded more southern than that 1 simple sentence. LOL
Designed by committee, or so the joke goes.
Man, I didn't even notice it the first time.
Such 'horses' were once stationed in Southern California for use of the U.S. Cavalry.
Research U.S. Army Camel Corps.
I mean, it certainly ain't a normal looking horse
I watch these when I am running of the treadmill. Mae's shooting segment was so long that I ran a half mile during it.
Smooth
@@wierdalien1 was it a joke? cause it totally wooshed me.
@@5oclock_Charlie no, i was saying like good job, speedy running
Huh, 804,5 metres in 4 min 25 s...that makes it 3 m/s, or 10,9 km/h. You're good, my average is about 10,5 km/h. (I don't have a treadmill, I just use the plain boring countryside.)
Watching this with a Bluetooth speaker in the shed where I clean my guns. My wife was taking the dog out right at the point Mae was loading the rifle. All she heard was a females heavy breathing coming from my speaker, and so she burst in. Then boom! "Oh just some more gun porn? ", "yes dear"
This was clearly the last rifle they shot that day, holy crap Mae seems exhausted
Salute her sacrifice....of shooting 100+ year old unicorns most people will never even see.
These episodes are thoroughly researched, well presented, interesting and educational, but the best part is always the final scene and sound effects of the "WAR WERE DECLARED" clips.
It's what I watch for, no question.
this one delivered
You see kiddos, when an Air Service Rifle and a Gewehr 98 love eachother very much...
Othias: "Mauser Gew98, often considered to be the best bolt-action military rifle."
James Paris Lee: "Theys fightin words."
Ole Krag: "Can I watch?"
Leon Nagant: "I'll wait in the car."
Lebel: you guys are using clips??
Frost Arctica Springfield is literally a Mauser copy
lordsummerisle87 Krag is lowkey shit compared to the others. Also, Mosin Nagant is a shit stick
@@homemadetech5712 Really? Wow that is completely new information! Please do bless us with more pearls of wisdom Professor. Tell me, is the pope Catholic? What colour is gold? Which way is "up"?
lordsummerisle87 dude chill out, why you so fucking stuck up? They way you wrote it sounded like you thought those two rifles were better. If not, you are just shitty at telling jokes
I took great pleasure from Othais' extremely appropriate use of the word "ersatz". You, sir, have won TH-cam for today.
Hey, I just want to say that I love this show, I just found it today, which today being the 8th of November, and I plan to go through and watch every other episode (I have watched at least a half dozen or more already...). While I love shows like this that talks about historical weapons, I am a bit more knowledgeable on WW2 weaponry than I am on WW1 Weaponry, I take every chance afforded me to learn new things, especially on topics I know little or nothing about. Thank you very much Othias and Mae, and I will look forward to future episodes. :)
"By 1915 the Gewehr 98 cost the government roughly 65 Marks to produce. At Oberspree, it cost only... 250. The project was an abysmal failure."
I saw something like that coming from the lead-in about what the factory was meant to accomplish, and it _still_ clobbered me. :)
I want to see Mae do a bayonet charge episode and see which she prefers.
Always wondered why the Mauser didn't get a 10 round mag?
Great video Othias and Mae and crew, thanks a bunch.
After the initial boost, you’re still loading 5 round stripper clips
War were declared: 5:55
This is the fastest war were declared in the series thus far I believe
FWIW, In the Pederson Device episode, WWD is at 2:13 or so. (In the BAR & Chauchat it's at around 4:35).
I think the Pedersen Device episode has the quickest War Were Declared.
Waiting for an episode where it starts
"Hi, I'm Othias, and war were declared."
@Devin McLeod Yeah, MP 18 was 1:25 IIRC. Definitely and deservedly the fastest, though that episode aired after this comment.
"i call it the Reich rocket"
...die Reichsrakete.
"rayk rocket"
@@darthmichaelus6104 *Reich, as in the second Reich
@@pacman10182 He clearly said "rayk", not "Reich".
@@darthmichaelus6104 what does a WOW character have to with WWI German small arms?
nothing, he said Reich
There was similar rifle In NRA museum, it was fitted with both dust cover, box magazine and additionaly low-magnification optical sight fixed on "roller coaster". I wonder how common was these modifications in frontline trenches.
You got the bayonet out on the lightbox, showed it off... but you didn't hand it over to Mae to give a live fire demonstration :(
How will we know if it's accurate and effective?
While we sneacky British , with a short rifle, had a cunning plan! We made a longer bayonet! Which to quote, as the Brtish always do on these occasions, Lance Copral Jones of the Home Gaurd 'They don't like it up'em'!
The German rifles are not sighted with the bayonet on, the idea is they would be fitted for a trench charge and otherwise kept on the person as a knife. Some other nations did sight the rifle with bayonet in order for it to remain fitted during line fire, this changes the point of aim fairly drastically (not just weight, balance and harmonic, but aerodynamic effects from gas charge ahead of the bullet).
Part of the rational here is that unlike earlier conflicts most WW2 guns where carried with live rounds in the magazine, so a soldiers reaction if surprised (even fairly close) was to make a shot (maybe even with handgun). Likewise at short ranges when using a battle-sight notch the shift in point of aim mattered far less than long ranges where a bayonet provided no functional advantage, but still made already forwards heavy guns even moreso, and would need to be fitted when spotting an unexpected distant opponent before you could start shooting accurately, as marching with bayonet installed (especially longer types) is generally an unfavorable concept.
@@SheepInACart He was talking about the knife itself...not the gun WITH the knife
Mae needs to affix bayonet and charge a sandbag while shouting every now and then.
Where there any Karabiners equipped with the 25 round magazine? Seems like it'd be more useful on a shorter rifle used in close quarters when it's more difficult to find cover to reload rather than on a long and bulky rifle used at range.
That would be some Edwardian Gucci gear.
This gun is so cool. I would have done it sliiiightly differently. Shorter mag that would allow for easy removal and prone firing. Probably 10 or 15 rounds? 21st century hindsight is 20/20. I love the dust cover!!
The clock went back an hour giving you an extra hour to watch C&Rsenal before bed. NICE!
in the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" from Erich Maria Remarque, it is written that the recruts got taken away the saw bajonets from older Front soldiers so that the dont get killed
immediately when being captured.
True, the allies saw the sawbacks as a warcrime
They saw it as a violation of the 1908 Hague Convention, which banned bayonets with more than one cutting edge. However, the Germans viewed the US M1897 Trench Shotgun as being a violation, because of it using non-jacketed lead ammunition. They also considered the seldom-encountered .455 British "Manstopper" non-jacketed pistol round as a violation for the same reason...
Othias:" that's a weird looking hoarse" 🤣 I don't know why I laughed so hard at this🤣🤣
Bless you Mae for taking one for the team
That dust cover comes in real handy when you have the rifle flipped over and are trying to shove the magazine in.
Another informative episode as always.
And man, Mae was just exuding the same feeling towards the end of shooting the 25 rounds like with the Air Service, just make it stop.😂
34:59 And if only that other ultimate Mauser was put into mass production. That would be interesting to see and compare to its contemporaries. The German Arisaka.
Eurgh, the sound it makes when you cycle it sets my teeth on edge.
Miss Mae is a tough young lady to endure all of that. Tough and pretty as well. Bless you for that endurance trial. You did a great job.
It's for science, eventually recoil will be measured in chest displacement.
"spits gesosh meed kearn" ... had to replay this 3 times - the grin in my face is still holding on as I'm typing... ;-)
To watch Othais wrestle with foreign language is one of the highlights of this show - at least for me
A nod to Mr Nambu....and to the Type 38.....a great followup to your already great 98 Mauser episode.
It was good to meet you and your wife at the rally. I'll be listening to more primer episodes at the plastics factory. Thanx for all the research you do.
That shooting segment felt like half the video!
"BUT WAIT - THERES MORE"
Mae is tough as hell and deserves a good drink after all those rounds down range.
LOVE Mae’s BIG SMILE firing the trench cleaner shotgun...
Othias: Of course it a weird looking horse! It was designed by a Military Aquisition board (Old English joke)
The one I heard was that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. I think I like yours better.
FWIW,back when the Bomarc missile was in use,certain of the people involved with the project called it "the civil service missile". In that it would not work and you could not fire it. Oof.
@@paulmanson253 The other one is the Definition of an Elephant? Mil Spec mouse. The one I liked following the fire at the Logistic base in UK was requistions coming back marked FOFAD- F' Off Fire At Doddington. Though during one period I was sent to buy, on my own credit card, as much LEGO as could be found in my local town. It was used as UOR for war games, talk about Improvise Adapt and Overcome. . A friend went across to America by scheduled airline with two large empty suitcases to bring back urgent spares and drawings for Warrior IFV's during Gulf One.
@@51WCDodge Hah ! I once declared a toilet seat when crossing the border. Unobtanium, believe it or not.
Robert Heinlein the science fiction writer referred to the Law of the Pyramids. As in,everything takes longer and costs more than originally anticipated.
@@paulmanson253 I belive you. :-) Hope it was a comfortable one.
@@paulmanson253 I've heard similar names for the L85
Thank you patreon for notifying me I'm going to bed an hour later than I planned. But hey is a sasquatch with a cool mauser.
The most important observation is seeing Mae sitting there holding the rifle at port arms and looking at her left hand and thinking
" why doesn't somebody put a ring on that girls finger" . Brains, wit, humor, personality, looks, beauty..... lots of beauty, and she shoots !!! Rather well I might add. Unless it's by choice, somebody needs to step up.
About the magazine, curious that there are no reinforcing ribs on it as the Air model one has and most all other magazines do. Also curious is why someone would go to all the time and trouble to develop and make such an obscure after market item. And that dust cover seems to be a telegraph to announce where the enemy should concentrate their fire. Way to noisy, added weight, slows down the cycling of the action and ultimately does little to keep out any form of water based debris
Was Mae using S munition( 154grn) or sS ( 198grn) during her 25 rd marathon?
And how bad was her shoulder bruise?
She is one Amazon Riflewoman!
DocAV Down under.
It was a pleasure to meet you aswell Othias
Round of applause for Mae. Took courage to show off that upper body workout, proper arm and shoulder workout
Love you two, Mae is fearless...... even this old wolf gets banged up popping off a 25 rd mag, kept waiting for that heavy sigh cause I know exactly what those last few feel like :)
You really need to do some new episodes focused around the berthier rifles. Especially the 07/15 since it was a primary rifle of the french military in ww1
They did it's episode 2 but they have gone back and re done the earlier episodes so probably in the works.
@@LavitosExodius Thats why i said they need to do NEW episodes
And here I was thinking I was going to go to bed...
Oh boy another comment about needing sleep, how original.
I listen to these videos when I sleep lol
@@Roflcopter4b Savage
I wonder how valuable original dust covers are. I picked up a 1915 Erfurt Gew98, in about 90% condition with original dust cover and partial original sling for $125 at an auction several years ago.
05:44 - Such 'horses' were once stationed in Southern California for use of the U.S. Cavalry.
I did a little research on the colonies, and the 98/05 wasn’t there. It started with the long 98 and than the KS98 became standard issue.
We too are very glad to have watched this episode.
I spent most of the time Mae was shoot just cheering her on. That was a ton of shooting.
God I love this channel thanks for giving me insight on this magazine extension. Your channel is the ONLY channel and place I have found useable information about this reproduction pice. I’ll definitely be getting one for my 1903 Springfield
Great channel! Great content! Great dynamic in presenation! Appreciate the show!
SmK isnt Sierra Match King? 🤔
Mae deserves a raise after this episode!
Thank you, thank you, thank you guys! As a collector and student of “gewehrs” (as i call them, referring to Gew98’s) this actually was really good. I learned some stuff. Would LOVE to talk about these with you....
That loading sequence really calls the entire concept into question for me
That’s a lot of time and effort to expend *in a firefight*
You don't need to do it that way, I have an original and it works a lot easier than this reproduction, fill it up with stripper clips and good to go. Also I can lie prone with it isn't a hassle i suspect my arms are a bit longer than Mae.
With these Well be in Paris by Christmas boys!!!
Says the enthusiastic new officer.
without having to fight 3 ennemies on 2 fronts they probably would have
One of my Buddies had one of those "Trench" Mags... Also a repro, and also kind of a bear to load... Like you guys said... "Cool Idea", but would like to know if the original ones functioned better...
Keep up the Great Work... 👍👍👍
The trench mag seems like a good addition to rifleman in the machine gun teams. They can better cover the gunner and loader when reloading or if they need to clear jams or what have you.
MMM Loading looks super simple.. Mae was huffing and grunting getting the last couple rounds in. That dust shield looks like it could get easily damaged or fall off, yet does seem effective. Overall this thing almost looks like a Bubba'd Mosing ironically... Like someone converted a 91/30 to a detachable archangel mag. Looks like a chore to shoot.
That's a useful accessory! You can grind up your pepper for your sauerkraut while you fight.
But what the Gewehr 98 doesn’t need? The box magazine. It’s too fiddly.
This thing looks like what would have happened if someone in Mauser R&D considered the possibility of a zombie apocalypse to me. Which, given the provenience of the design, tickles me greatly.
Love the sound affects from war were declared! You should make a video of all the clips!! Cheers!
War Were Declared compilation needed!
Happy Fifth Anniversary!
No Cake, no candles?
Many more, I hope.
DANGIT C&R! It's bedtime!
The box magazine is pretty stupid on this rifle, but the bolt dust cover is pretty slick.
One of my favorite episodes 🤘. And I have one of those reproduction extended mags too and got it to fit on one of my Yugo Mausers. It's cool but same issue. Now it just sits in the back of a safe lol.
I also have an Ersatz bayonet made in 1917 and modified in the 30s to fit a Turkish M38 Mauser. I've even seen German Ersatz bayonets lent to Turkey being modified for M1 Garands!
I actually recently found a 1905 sawback bayonet poking out of a ground on a old battlefield. And the saw part was in deed filed down! I really tought that it was an myth untill then!
That's cool for you. How badly had it rusted?
GunFun ZS Superficial rust, found it in a dry white sand atop of a hill. Bayonets actually hold up suprisingly well, sadly sheats not so much- had one crumble in my hands after I found it
I have a 1903 Springfield made October 1918 with a magazine similar to this gewehr, do you have any information on it?
That’s funny you mention deer cause I’m taking my Garand Saturday and I’m taking my gewehr 98 Sunday providing I get one Saturday with the Garand
haha.....poor May, you could tell she was thinking "when is this bloody thing going to end!"
25:00 It seems a bigger magazine capacity of just 10 rounds in stead of 20 rounds should be just fine..
Thank you much as allways. I like the way you present the information. I'm slowly making it through all the ones here and truly like them. Peae love & jello. TomCat
Holy shit that thing is super tactical.
You guys make me want to move to South Carolina.
was the g98 trench magazine variant used on the eastern front ww1? asking for a friend
I lost count, Mae. Could you do that again?
I have lots of respect for Mae. First things first, she is not afraid to sholder this beast of a gun, and second she is beautiful.😙
Now I want a book where Sam I Am tries to get a German requisitions officer to like one of these. Thanks, Othias.
The "Co" in Simpson&Co stands for "Consorten", not Company.
Consorten isn't a name, instead it translates directly as "Associates", and legally fills a very simlar use as "and company".. so your correct regarding the pronunciation but there isn't a factual error.
@@SheepInACart yes thanks for the lecture, i knew that, but othais and some others might be unaware hence i said what i said. never called out any factual errors did i?
what would have been very smart is if they made the "keyhole" in the magazine use a bent stripper clip instead.
Very smart idea. Seems familiar to something that the German would have done.
46:50 : I never knew the USA came up with an extended magazine for the 1903 Springfield.
Every kid on the playground: The sawback was meant to cause extra gruesome damage and injuries! Also the groove in the blade was to give blood somewhere to drain!
_30 years later_
Dad: Hey son, you know why they had serrated bayonets...
Big fan of Mae !
RIP mae's shoulder once again. Same with the air service 1903.
I put one of the reproduction 20-round magazines on my 100% mutant Mauser which is a kar98 receiver with a I believe Yugoslavia stock roller coaster site on a carbine length barrel yeah it's weird.
I did a 25 round rapid fire with it and I know why may is wearing the glove ! the rear site becomes very warm if you count blistering your fingers as very warm !
Would love to see the 'fixes' you did to get it to feed better
We need a series about bladed weapons from WWI .
Nice shooting, a lack of smoke when you use that dust cover
Mae is great a shooting machine!👍
Does anyone know where you can get one of those reproduction dust covers? I've found the trench magazine, but the dust cover is proving much harder to find
Did you know that Mauser produced Gewehr 98 reproduction rifles in 1998, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Gewehr 98? I didn’t know this until now, they actually made reproductions of the most popular and the best WWI bolt action rifle.
I think you can put a reproducion dust cover and reproduction trench magazine on a Gewehr 98 100th anniversary reproduction rifle. To be clear, I couldn’t find any videos of Gewehr 98 1998 reproduction rifles.
I hope someone on TH-cam post a Gewehr 98 1998 replica.
@@blueofthelightanddark6273 I didn't know that either, that's really cool! I knew people were making newmade Lugers and whatnot, but not the G98. And I'm just looking for the dust cover, since I want to have a full "assault" G98 to display and shoot along with my Ottoman G88 and Austrian M95
@@danteweisend5974 ok. I don’t have or own a Gewehr 98. I’m just wondering what if someone add a repro dust cover and repro trench magazine on a fully functioning G98 replica.
It would be an awesome complete set and someone would have fun, going on an assault with reproduction accessories on a 1898-1998 Mauser Oberndorf Gewehr 98 100th Anniversary rifle.
@@blueofthelightanddark6273 It would be, but sadly I don't own a G98 of any kind, much less a 100th anniversary one. Hopefully someone that has access to all of it can do it and post about it
My question is the cartridge .
As we all know Imperial Germany was principally armed with the Komission Model 1888 patern Gewhr and the Karbiner 1888 in 1898, these were chambered in 7,92x57 .318 bore. Mauser
The 7,92x57 .323 bore would not be introduced until the early 20th century.
Thus the question is were the early Mauser Gewhr 1898 and Kar 1898 1st pattern Karabiner and the Kar 1898 2n pattern Karabiner had a bayonet bar were these early pieces not chambered in the 7,92x57 .318 bore?
The Karabiner 1898 1st and 2nd patterns had the same barrel length as the Kar 1888 about 18.5 in. Barrel and both had the roller coaster rear sight graduation started at 100 meters.
I know these pieces would be chambered in the 7,92x57 .323 bore for the say muzzle flash was horrendous and recoil was heavy.
About a total 20,000 pieces were manufactured.
This led to the Kar 98 AZ with a barrel length increase to around 24.5 inches and a tangent rear sight. The bayonet bar was moved up further just under the muzzle.
Now the key difference between the Mauser Gewhr Rifle and the Kar 1898's , was the Gewhr 1898 used a large ring receiver while the Kars used a small ring receiver
I had a 1903 and was gonna mod one of these mags to work for it. Did i even have a chance? Well the box mag for the muaser.
One thing I am curious about is why wasn't this box magazine made standard for the 98 in WWII??
I once read someone's opinion that in WW1 America fielded the best target rifle (03 Springfield), Germany fielded the best hunting rifle (K98 Mauser), & the English the best battle rifle (Lee Enfield).
I have not seen anything to make me think differently.
I'd argue the 1917 fielded by America is the best battle rifle.
The M1903 isn’t much of a target rifle given it’s sights. Also it’s a mauser clone.
The best target rifle was probably the Ross. For battle rifle, I'd probably go 1917. I'd take a sub gun over all of them though.
The caliber of German rifles was 7,9 mm - 7,90 +0,04 mm (not 7,92). The 7,92 mm caliber was for Chechoslovakian rifles and MG.
One of these guns you shoot on Sunday and load all week.
I enjoy your presentation.
Idk man the 97 with the M1917 16” long bayonet is pretty damn menacing
And moreso without it.