Despite having used a Mauser designed rifle for the past 17 years, Imperial Germany did not consult the Mauser brothers when establishing a commission to design their first smokeless powder repeating rifle. The result of that commission, the Gewehr 1888, was an imperfect rifle that would eventually be replaced after just a decade in service. I explore the differences between the Gewehr 88 long rifle and it's carbine variant, the Karabiner 88
The Kar 88 is a sporter restoration that has some small deviations from how the carbines looked originally.
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