Steyrs for the Luftwaffe: The G29(ö) aka Gewehr 12/34

[@AlexP-hl4wn]

Really enjoying these “K98k-almost” videos!

[@jeffreyoldham55]

Sling swivel set up was a simple yet brilliant solution. I found the explanation of the mis-matched bolt quite interesting.

[@michaelamos4651]

Ye very interesting and informative

[@peteraffm]

Faszinating! I never heard about this rifle. Thank you, Ian.

[@EricEasterling-o6r]

I think the hollowed out recoil lug was meant for firing pin disassembly as well.

[@Dominic1962]

It was.

[@robertshriver9723]

Just like the VZ.24

[@noblemortarman]

I have one. It survived the entire war, only to fall to bubba's lust.

[@christianheinle1563]

Is it for sale?

[@theshadowrunner28]

There is a reason why older gun owners have certain reputations.

[@GuitARPlayr100]

Same for my poor Steyr M95M. Made it through completely numbers matching, just for bubba to chop down the numbers matching stock🤦

[@keithagn]

My condolences...😢

[@bravomike3223]

Another great video, Ian! Thank you! I was lucky enough to pick up an all matching G29(o) a few years ago, complete with the correct sling set up. The only missing part is the cleaning rod. There is not much out there on the interwebs for this rifle and your video was very informative! Cheers!

[@Mag_Aoidh]

I had a 1970s Steyr-Daimler-Puch Sears 10 speed at one time. I think it was a combination of 3 different country’s parts including frame, gears and brakes. It was heavy but you could tell it was old school quality.

[@alfazagato1455]

S-D-P was, maybe is, one of the classic do-anything companies. They made several different designs of light military vehicle mid-20th century. I believe they even had a hand in developing the Mercedes-Benz G Class.

[@tobiasfreitag2182]

They designed the styer Daimler Puch typ G that was then license build by Mercedes... so they were the original designers. They also designed the Pinzgauer (also used by the british army in Afghanistan) and the Haflinger. They also designed the 12m18 truck that is also license produced for the US army called FMTV witch is, as far as I'm aware the standart medium truck of the US army

[@GeFlixes]

1:55 The "hard" thing about Nazi Germany is that most of what they did, at least before the war, was technically legal. The takeover? Explored a loop hole in emergency laws. Sudetenland and Austria? went through proper channels. Even the forced migration and confiscation of Jews had laws behind it and courts ordering it. Many of those judges played roles in post war Germany as well. This experience led to important systematic changes in German law - the first few articles of the German constitution are perpetual and you cannot change them even with a full political majority, the constitutional court is very strong, and there's a law on the books which allows anyone to resist unconstitutional laws with violence if all other political and judicial possibilities are exhausted. Above all, there's a deep sense of that because something is legal it's not morally right, and just because something is illegal it's automatically morally wrong. Many street and church names today Honor the people that "illegally" resisted the Nazis.

[@michaelwright2986]

Yes. And also the Anschluss was not exactly a conquest. Many Austrians opposed it, but to many, I guess, it seemed like the completion of German unification. So, keep it all legal.

[@evandotterer4365]

I really enjoy these kinda stop gap mausers made in other countries. Specifically the early ones cause the quality is so nice.

[@LEXxTALIONS]

Awesome video. Another amazing lesson on gun history by Dr. Ian👌👍

[@fallschirmjagerfilms4167]

I’ve been waiting for this video for YEARS. Mine is very similar to this also being a veteran, bring back with a mismatched bolt with the bolt all matching itself. I find all have a good place to point people to when the ask about the thing because there is so little publicity available info you can find on the web. In most books on mausers they are either skipped over or just a sentence long footnote And thank you for finally clearing up the issue of the actual proper model designation. I’ve hated the g29(ö) for years, everyone just assumes it’s the same as the g29/40

[@AntiPlatitude]

You shouldn’t put pudding in your bed. Especially not chocolate pudding. People will get the wrong idea about you. If you feel like you need to, try putting something else in your bed, like maybe an extra blanket during the winter.

[@thevillager8339]

Finally, a forgotten weapon

[@B52Stratofortress1]

This honestly seems like a better design than the actual K98.

[@zorlaxreefer1322]

My great grandfather brought one back, it’s a byf 44 k98 receiver with a g29o stock.

[@BLACKIETHOMAS]

the hollow out of the stock pin is to be used to break down the bold. ( unlike the 98K that had a seperate disk set in the stock)

[@reliantncc1864]

The reason why Germany was willing to buy stock in Steyr instead of simply taking it is because the Anschluss was advertised as being a peaceful reunification of German nations, rather than a hostile takeover. Also, Austrians literally were Germans, so according to the racial ideology, they ought to be treated as full citizens of Greater Germany.

[@jimparker7778]

Love the 1912 Chile Steyrs. Great craftsmanship and metal craft.

[@ausnorman8050]

Need to setup a registry/data base of gun s/n and their s/n mix matched bolts. I'm sure a few guns would find their original bolt haha.

[@Dominic1962]

Maybe…maybe not. Sometimes bolts ended up in a scrap pile instead of a souvenir pile or a thousand other possibilities. Or when rifles came here they ended up bubba’ed, or lost in flood and fire, or are still in the rafters somewhere, etc.

[@PrebleStreetRecords]

The closest I ever got was finding a bolt one serial number ahead of a receiver, which feels even more unlikely.

[@TheZinmo]

It is courious that the german state bought the shares of Steyr from the Bank (Creditanstalt). Austria was fully integrated into Germany, all its assets - like the partial ownership of the Creditanstalt - were transferred direktly to Germany as a state. It was not like in Poland or Czechoslovakia where there were levels of bureacracy between.

[@Nick_Holst]

My Dad bought a batch of six Mausers that had been left by the Germans on the island of Bornholm (Denmark) a few years ago for around $350. One of them was one of these. A nice 1938 dated one. There were several other rare ones too. Survived the war in relative safety and kept in a basement locker by the guy who found them. The guy owned a workshop at the harbor where they were left and the local policeman made him permits so that they could shoot them for fun. Bargain of a lifetime!

[@east_carolina_rail_photos]

The G29 (😮)

[@Lvkan]

Psst. Dont tell zem! No Sir ze G29 ist an antik. We do not make new rifles

[@oddball_the_blue]

Regarding German financial manoeuvres - In some countries they played nice. In other countries like Denmark, they made the Danes pay huge sums directly from their national reserves to pay for construction of the Atlantic wall fortifications in their own country. Despite never agreeing that they were actually needed.

[@hobbie4]

Interesting. Based off my television education I thought Luftwaffe exclusively used .30-40 Krag-Jorgensen

[@joehoover6131]

Lolol I see what you did there

[@kebabsvein1]

Nice reference there

[@Sean-cz77]

I've never seen any evidence of that in photos. K98s, vz24s etc

[@georgesheffield1580]

???

[@wingsofwrath4647]

​@@Sean-cz77 Psst, it's a joke and a reference to the tv series "Hogan's Heroes", where Sgt. Schultz, one of the Luftwaffe guards of Stalag 13 was inexplicably given a US Krag-Jorgensen .30-40 rifle by the prop department...

[@jankusthegreat9233]

Good morning in German

[@johnsmith-jq1uc]

guten morgen

[@jamesa3818]

Good evening in Australian... He says at 0005hrs (aka, the morning technically).

[@vornamenachname989]

Moin

[@Bustin_cider00]

You gotta remember to raise your arm entirely straight while pointing out where the sun is in the sky; to reinforce the fact that it’s morning

[@websitemartian]

como?

[@petrimakela5978]

Basically all the differences to K98k make it a better combat rifle for my weird taste

[@allelseissupplemental357]

When you join the air force to stay away from the dangers of the front line....😒

[@oldesertguy9616]

a buddy of mine joined the Marine Corps as a grunt during Vietnam. He had friends that joined but went into the air wing, thinking they wouldn't be sent to the bush. They were sent to the bush anyway but had a four-year enlistment instead of my buddy's two-year enlistment.

[@kevinoliver3083]

Not so much: the German airforce included paratroopers, the Herman Göring panzer division and several field divisions on the Eastern Front.

[@bjornh4664]

@@kevinoliver3083 During the later half of the war, surplus Luftwaffe ground personnel was either transferred to the Fallschirmjäger or to the Waffen-SS.

[@genericpersonx333]

In fairness, the Luftwaffe didn't sell itself as a "Chair Force" where you would be kept away from the front lines. Luftwaffe doctrine was to aggressively push with the Heer (Army), constantly moving its airfields forward to ensure minimal turn-around time for sorties. This meant your typical Luftwaffe airman often found himself just a matter of kilometers behind the "front line," well within range of enemy ground forces. Thus the Luftwaffe ensured its personnel were armed and trained in basic infantry combat, particularly in field fortification, and they could and would defend themselves. So the Luftwaffe was only really "safer" in the sense that it usually didn't go LOOKING for fights with enemy ground forces, but if the fight came to them, they'd give a fight.

[@leighrate]

@@genericpersonx333 Given that they are a technical service, I'd expect their actual quality to equal the best the Heer had.

[@JJW3]

I'm pretty sure one of my Russian capture K98k rifles has a stock from one of these rifles put on it by the Russians during refurbishment. The rifle itself is an ERMA produced model, but the stock has the finger groove, stock disc, and hollow recoil lug.

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

RC kar98k's are pretty much a hodgepodge of parts, so you're probably right. My first kar98k is an RC with a mid-war, Czech made receiver and barrel, early war Mauser made flat buttplate stock and a late war, stamped trigger guard with a late war stamped buttplate.

[@robertsolomielke5134]

TY Ian. This era it looks like the Mausers ruled more than the Moisins, or maybe more diverse world coverage.

[@randyruppel6727]

I own one of those Chilean Steyr's. I love it.

[@peteraffm]

I have a question to you, Ian: This Steyer has a hole in the trigger guard, like the VZ24 models from Brno CZ, which acquired Mauser production lines for G98s after 1918. Would that mean that Steyer also acquired G98 production lines after 1918? Or have the Steyer production lines been set up during WW1 with help of Mauser?

[@adamvonwolfsberg]

Neither. Steyr had a production line for Mauser 98 type rifles set up already around 1904. They produced Mauser 98 system rifles and carbines in large series for Chile, Colombia and Mexico between 1912 and 1914.

[@Dominic1962]

The m1912 had that hole for the detachable sling swivel as well. Had nothing to do with Gew. 98 machinery.

[@Goc4ever]

I really enjoy these videos about German guns, they show us that Germany cared about logistics especially for precision. This gun is very nice-looking.

[@GreenLeader-c9e]

Really liking these recent videos

[@tomhalla426]

The Third Reich had a certain level of pretense on their “ownership” of purportedly “private” companies. Given the level of planning in the economy, with price and wage controls as well as the state setting production and supply orders, just how “private” any firm was is a matter of debate.

[@LupoSenpai]

The best Ö I've heard from an english speaker so far.

[@aldi404]

Naja 😅

[@georgesheffield1580]

He does even better in French!

[@thatdudeinasuit5422]

​@@georgesheffield1580 yeah I assume that comes from his interest in the French military

[@AshleyPomeroy]

At 04:06 for the curious. He even does the shape!

[@FrontlinerCdV]

And it sounded closer to an Ü than an Ö...

[@Mag_Aoidh]

And boy, in most of those shots of Ian talking it looks like a 1903 if you just glance at it. I know the whole lineage but I think it’s the top handguard.

[@fydofire]

Nazis didn't even steal a factory without the correct paperwork and it's only allowed to use screws without serialnumbers in wartime ! Jokes aside...we should always consider that quite a lot of those ww2 weapons, especially the german ones, ended up in the movie industry. If you'd like to make a ww2 movie and like to equip a whole division...no problem.

[@AntiPlatitude]

Sounded like he said the rifles made in the early years of the war had serialized screws, too.

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

@AntiPlatitude you misunderstood the comment here - he is implying that manufacturers were only "allowed" to stop putting serial numbers on things like screws during wartime. Which is exactly the same as Ian says in the video - pre war screws had serial numbers, later rifle screws generally would not. The Germanic people tend to be fastidious about following rules and keeping records - when they don't continue that practice you know something is up, or has gone very wrong.

[@fydofire]

@@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x to be fair, it was rather a medium quality joke on my end

[@Jason-fm4my]

Imagine seeing the rifle your bolt serial # matches on the show. It's probably better odds than the lottery.

[@allenwhite7947]

Any chance we get a video on the John Dillinger 38 super m1911?

[@3746463]

Ian! Imagine the word "earn" - as in "how much do you earn". Isolate the ea-part of that word, that sound, and there you have the right way of pronuncing the mysterous Ö !

[@SouthCatBoy99]

Never heard about this variant before; pretty interesting ☻

[@brendansammut9278]

would love to have that in australia

[@Dani87178]

I see this as a new rifle in the Germany tech tree in Enlisted. Looks great

[@celmer6]

It's always a good morning with a Mauser video.

[@michaelbaker488]

l love watching you .. i learn a lot

[@dallasgrant]

I think it's quite easy to "legally" purchase stuff when most of your assets are "ill-gotten", I'm not surprised they'd do that over a straight takeover.

[@cheesenoodles8316]

The world of non standard rifles for the German army in WWII is interesting. I looked for as nice K98k once, couldn't find one on my budget and picked up a VZ24, the knowledgable informed me it has typical German modifications....

[@bulukacarlos4751]

7:17 It's strange that they didn't use "K" for Kriegsmarine. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina

[@Sean-cz77]

Krieg designation is probably too vague. Like ''waffe'' for Luftwaffe. ''Luft'' means air. ''Marine'' means sea bound navy.

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

The Kriegsmarine themselves and the OKW ("Military High Command") were virtually the only ones that cared about the "K" designation for maritime forces. On riffles it would have been confusing anyway.

[@mattorama]

If you brought something like this back in 1945... what did you do for ammo? Was there ANY availability? Doesn't seem like 8mm Mauser would be super popular over in the US.

[@JJW3]

Surplus ammo was common, but one of the somewhat popular modifications was the conversion of the chamber to 8mm-06. It is an easy conversion and it allowed you to use common .30-06 brass necked-up to 8mm. 8mm-06 isn't done much anymore, particularly when reloadable 8x57 brass and dies became available.

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

There had been loads of "8mm Mauser" rifle ammunition imported to the US for "sporting / hunting purposes" before and after *WWI* . While not super common at every retail store, it was available here post WWII. It became more available as Nazi supplies were pushed onto the "surplus" market when West Germany rearmed in the later 1950's (as the other comment noted).

[@Tammy-un3ql]

excellent job.

[@bartsimpson6767]

Could you run in head space problems , putting a different bolt in.?

[@roelmas695]

Seems a like a real cool rifle

[@fjallaxd7355]

Good video.

[@Cannonless3554]

Unless these videos were recorded weeks or more ago... Could you reach over one day and fix the M60 bipod? The one side being longer is triggering my OCD.

[@christianheinle1563]

@Forgotten Weapons Ian is the one for sale? I would be interested.

[@ForgottenWeapons]

auctions.morphyauctions.com/_C__RARE_LUFTWAFFE_1939_STEYR_660_CODE_G_29_O__BOL-LOT624074.aspx

[@JacobGokey]

2:07 Would be interesting to know if the German government was more interested in the small arms production, or vehicle production. Daimler-Puch made a great number of military trucks for the Nazi's.

[@rosemaryblock7751]

Hey, Ian - I have a K98k"Isreali" Mauser, rebarreled to 7.62 Nato. Date on reciever ring is 1940, where can i find a list of manufacturer codes, to see who built it originally?

[@Techcensorshipbot]

6:57 That's a happy boy

[@karldrexler4222]

I've got a question I've been meaning to ask: when rifles are serialized in blocks like these are, is there a rifle numbered '0000a' or something? Or is production one short in every ten thousand owing to the rifles being numbered 1-9999?

[@adamvonwolfsberg]

9999 pieces per each block.

[@novacat3032]

a) your pronounciation of german words is quiet well except for the taken out of a word letter ö (sounds more like a german would say u) b) a video on how guns get destroyed / lost in Operations might be cool... i mean for real i got ideas how that might happen (including an certain irishman using one of the tanks main weapons "the TRACKS!") but would like to know more

[@ThOi0419]

Why’d you pull the video where you mistakenly argued that the CEO assassin wasn’t using a B&T VP9? Am I missing something?

[@ForgottenWeapons]

I didn't remove it. They just arrested a guy with a Glock, but I wouldn't have taken down the video even if I actually was wrong...which I wasn't.

[@ThOi0419]

@ I’ve got sources that are claiming generic “ghost gun” and sources claiming the VP9, what source identified it as a Glock? I’m not doubting, honestly want to read it. Apologies if I claimed you’d removed the video, I couldn’t find it when I searched your channel earlier.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

​​​​​​@ThOi0419 It wasn't a full-length video. It was a Short, so you'll find it in the appropriate section (at least, that's where I see it).

[@ThOi0419]

@ I stand corrected, looks like he and I were both wrong anyone. Sounds like it was 3D printed. Not a Glock, nor a VP9

[@kutter_ttl6786]

​@@ThOi0419For the gun used, I've only seen NBC show a picture of the gun he used and it looks like it's a Glock-based ghost gun. KZbin doesn't like me posting links so the name of the article is _What to know about 'ghost guns,' the weapon allegedly tied to the CEO shooting_ posted less than an hr ago.

[@lucasbaalman5095]

I always wonder why they decide to stop the production of a rifle like this ( a near copy of their rifle) just to make an exact copy of a k98. I mean it’s the same size , ammo, and handling etc. Why waste the money and resources to retool for basically the same thing. Id bet by the end of the war they would have loved that time,money and resources back.

[@leewilkinson6372]

That's a great question! If you would indulge my speculation.... I think it would have to do with parts commonality and perceived upgrades to minor parts. As an example, you could not use the barrel bands of this rifle on the more prevalent k98k.... so if only that minor part were missing, you would need to re stock it. Also, I believe some of the changes to the kar98k over the course of the war years were to allow better quality and/or faster production.

[@sthrich635]

That is a bit of exaggeration of the so-called "wasted money and resources" for retooling. As stated, the rifle was pretty much a different pattern of same Mauser rifles, with the same caliber and mechanism. The Germans didn't need to knock down the whole small arms factory to rebuild it to make their Kar98k. The minor retooling process was done quickly and gradually. And by the way the standard Kar98k could use standard German scope and rifle grenade attachment right, so there was the benefit there.

[@DavSecurity]

Awesomeness 🎉

[@knorpelmancer]

Ackchyually it's pronounced "ö".

[@Matt-md5yt]

looks good.

[@swayingGrass]

what's the MG and SMGs Steyr making?

[@GalsAndGuns7]

Thank you! Very interesting & educational. I’m trying to figure out age of my late husband’s Great-Great Grandfather’s 16g shot gun. Can’t seem to find any markings on the firearm but one which is very faint. Unreadable. Maybe I’ll have to take another look. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

[@robertcrawford3246]

How much for the m60 behind you?

[@JohnViinalass-lc1ow]

another richly infoormative post, our Mark

[@adaw2d3222]

Were these for paras?

[@aldi404]

Serialized screws? Extrem Deutsch! 😂

[@PavewayJDAM]

k98k we have at home.

[@vaclav_fejt]

The country name abbbreviations only counted for captured equipment and equipment made with captured industry, did they not? Czech stuff had a (t), because it was formally a protectorate of the third realm, not a full-on part of it, like Austria, which was absorbed completely. Though, I'm not sure about Poland. Addition: It could also have been a pre-war deception. Carbines are for the police and legal, rifles are for the military and illegal. That's also why the illegally made rifles were "carbines" and subsequently the short rifles (carbines?) were named "short carbines".

[@WillMoon]

Ich setzte auf Toilete; schauen Forgotten Weapons an. Schörn.

[@junkfish2007]

The “bolt in one pile, the rifle in another”. Is an old fudd wise tale. Has been discussed for the last 20+ years. No documentation exists (or photos) that show this was a normal occurrence. I think I’ve only ever seen one photo with some German rifles that had some bolts removed. It had some GI’s going through a couple of rifles. Likely in the North African campaign. It was only a handful of rifles, of the hundreds in the photo. Current consensus, is that early importers removed bolts from rifles (for space). Since they weren’t valuable collectibles in the 1950’s-‘60’s.

[@Dominic1962]

That makes sense for *imported* rifles. It’s well known, for instance, that the Peruvian m1909s that are almost always in minty shape but with the bolt mismatched are that way because of importation shenanigans. But with a vet bring back? Especially with something like this that matches down to the screws except for the bolt. If the GI kept it completely original and in such nice shape, he didn’t swap its bolt for a k98k bolt just for gits and shiggles. So that points to, grab a rifle from the pile and grab a bolt from the pile. Or, when you get on the ship they separate the bolts to keep guns unusable on the trip back so they don’t have ADs or drunken gunplay over card games. Same with all the mismatched Arisakas. Something happened such that the bolts got separated from a bunch of these souvenir rifles and then haphazardly mismatched. Importer shenanigans doesn’t explain them.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

This was a vet bring back though, it never went through an imported.

[@leewilkinson6372]

With a pre war rifle in service through the war, could it be that simple use wore down the original, and it was replaced at the unit level rather than refurbished at an armory? Take the bolt from one with a bent barrel....viola, serviceable rifle!

[@Dominic1962]

@@leewilkinson6372 It *could* but a bolt rarely needs replaced and the Germans were anal about keeping everything together.

[@Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x]

No such thing as a "wise tale". lol And I have seen at least three separate photos of massive piles of "surrendered" bolt action rifles separate from their bolts. This was a standard military practice when relieving "enemy" soldiers of their firearms. Just like there would be a separate pile for ammunition and ammo carriers...

[@user-bchfldmgd]

Yes!

[@MrKronikDeception]

Here we go!

[@kevinfox1780]

Enteignung or eminent domain.

[@colonthree]

Meanwhile in Norway: (ø)

[@Jonjs99]

Why to waste time and put these markings?

[@adamvonwolfsberg]

There is a bunch of errors at the beginning. Steyr didn't sell any rifles to Chile post-WW1. They only sold one series of rifles to Colombia in 1934, and those were the Model 12/34 rifles.

[@Llamadosalvaje]

CHILE 🇨🇱

[@themilkman6969]

karabiner 98kinda

[@mykolatkachuk7770]

As if the owners had a choice either to sell or not

[@Dominic1962]

Sure, but it’s an interesting tidbit of information. I would have just assumed the Nazzies just simply took stuff like that and told the owners to hit the bricks.

[@mykolatkachuk7770]

@@Dominic1962 Nazies maintained the pretense of legality when they could afford it. However any legal order was removed in 33 by issueing Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat suspending crucial Articles of Constitution. Ever since Hitler ruled by decree. I truly belive that most Nazi judges below on the bench of Nuremberg trials.

[@TheArchaos]

A luftwaffle rifle!

[@ET-mr4iu]

I think that those big bad Nazis knew that they would need support from that big Austrian bank someday and despite being an authoritarian regime, laws still applied to them. Another great video Ian👍👍

[@FerroEquus-262]

The Fuhrer himself was Austrian, so...

[@Dominic1962]

@@FerroEquus-262 But he didn’t consider himself “Austrian”, but German, full stop. Back in the day, the Hapsburgs were, besides Archdukes of Austria and Apostolic Kings of Hungary, were also Holy Roman Emperors-the at least figurehead leader of all the Germanic States. It was only with the meteoric rise of Prussian power that the Austrian Hapsburgs were eventually pushed out of their German leadership to an “other” delineation, made very clear with the formation of the new “German Empire” under the King of Prussia in 1871. By WWI, Austria-Hungary was thought of as it’s own thing and not really German anymore. Hitler took to “reuniting” Austria proper “back” to Germany, along with Bohemia as historically “German”.

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

"economic", not "economical" 😂😂😂

[@tylerthomas7743]

No

[@waliza001]

lol walnut stock.

[@aidangray9140]

Please review weapons being used in Ukraine

[@gorkemsenol4128]

Ö

[@jeffreyhowll1392]

Hi Al

[@Lcaughell95]

the Germans treated German like poeple nice who would have thunk it

[@jamesa3818]

6th comment. That's all.

[@theheadbangguy5985]

A Mauser is a Mauser, is a Mauser... We don't really need to look at every single one ever made... If you wanna show us a Mauser gun show us how a c96 works. I've seen a bunch of c96 videos on the channel, but none of them actually show how the gun works...

[@Dominic1962]

Except it’s not. Collectors don’t deal with the Platonic Form “Mauser 98”-the nuts and bolts that make this different from a k98k or vz. 24 are precisely the sort of thing that is interesting.

[@johndough5596]

First

[@jamesa3818]

Show off... I only got 6th.

[@l0rf]

My KZbin comments, listed by newest, say you're second.

[@andrewdopple6946]

Kinda98k

[@isimisoko]

Yes,they came with guns and buy stocks,and they will pay when they have money.