K98k Mauser Loading and Unloading (TF 7-03)

[@spoopid10]

Was watching some dude playing CoD Warzone 2 using the Kar98k, I noticed that in the reload animation the clip being pulled out manually and went: ...WAIT A MINUTE! Aggrovation filled my body, I went and verified my suspicions. I'm satisfied with my gun knowledge. P.S. Really informative video, good job!

[@HistoryinFirearms]

I typically manually pull the clip out, but that's because I'm trying to save the clip. If I was in some CoD action, I wouldn't be doing that! Even in my video, this is per the manual, and it is certainly more garrison than combat oriented, but even then, they were good with the bolt knocking the clip out.

[@Squib1911]

Great slo-mo on the bolt being closed.

[@HistoryinFirearms]

Thanks!

[@nicholasboleky3760]

absolute perfect video. no nonsense

[@HistoryinFirearms]

Thanks! Just the facts 👍

[@tnoomsk5897]

It's actually called Kar98k and not K98k, because the Great K alone stands in the Wehrmacht for Kanone (Canon), The Problem had the MKB 42, firstly it was called MP 42 but duo to the Caliber it was renamed to Karabiner 42 and make the mistake to use K42, so they renamed it again to Maschinenkarabiner 42, firstly as MK42 and than MKB42.

[@HistoryinFirearms]

Interesting. That makes sense though. Why not MKar42? Or why did they not go with KB98k instead of the Kar98k?

[@tnoomsk5897]

@@HistoryinFirearms I guess they wanted to make it easier with Kar, you can do a lot of stupid shit with abbreviations, you could have made it Kanonenbombe with KB as an example, which also just sounds funny. But there would also have been soldiers who would have gotten completely confused, when I think about all the abbreviations we had for everything that A - Z included, I'm not surprised, OKW as an example is simply Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, now Ekdo. which is Erpobungskommando, I didn't even know that there was such a thing until now. So to come back to it, it's probably that they wanted to make it easy for the Landser and give him less opportunity to make any stupid words.

[@jeffshootsstuff]

What’s the purpose of sliding the thumb forward to the bullet tip?

[@HistoryinFirearms]

When putting this video together, I thought it was interesting that the manual was specific on that. Then, while filming, I did notice that when pushing the rear of the cartridge down, the tip can get stuck up. Sliding the thumb forward fixes that.