The design principles found on the Karabiner 98AZ would be carrier over into the design of Germany's later short rifle, and standard issue battle rifle used in World War II, the Karabiner 98K.

7. Mauser Karabiner Kar 98k > Maximum effective range: 1,969 ft. > Country of origin: Germany > Year: 1935 > Caliber/Cartridge/Feed: 7.92x57mm Mauser, 5-round internal box magazine ...

The Karabiner 98k is a bolt-action rifle, which means each shot takes a little longer than semi-automatics like the M1 Garand. You have to manually cycle the bolt after each shot. This isn’t the ...

The 98K it was intended to replace was not even semi-automatic. The StG 44 was not lighter than the 98k, but it had a barrel that, at 16.5 inches, was about half a foot shorter.

It proved murderously successful. In fact, German snipers reportedly preferred captured Mosin-Nagants to their own Mauser Karabiner 98k rifles.

The German army, fighting masses of Soviet infantry on the Eastern Front, sought a weapon that could shoot faster from a larger magazine than the Karabiner 98k bolt action carbine, but fired a ...