
July, 2025
Chinese Contract Kar98k
Republic of China
Second World War
Made by Mauser in c.1937
7.92x57mm
Chinese Contract Kar98k
The end of a decades-long partnership between German arms manufacturers and China was a small lot of Kar98k Mauser rifles sent to Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies in the late 1930s.
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