Gewehr 33/40

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The Gewehr 33/40, also simply known as the G33/40, was a bolt-action rifle, sometimes considered a carbine, used exclusively by Germany’s elite mountain troops, the Gebirgsjäger.

The Gewehr 33/40 was a rotating bolt-action rifle based heavily on the Czechoslovak vz.16/33 rifle, itself inspired by the famous Gewehr 98. The rifle was rather short at only one meter long.

Like the Karabiner 98k, the Gewehr 33/40 was fed by five round stripper clips and was chambered in the standard German 7.92 x 57mm Mauser cartridge.

The Gewehr 33/40 had a short production run, however. It was discontinued in 1942 when the Brno complex converted to the standard Karabiner 98k, which was now supplanting nearly all German service rifles in the Wehrmacht. By the end of the war, a meager ~120,000 Gewehr 33/40s were completed.