Quote Originally Posted by Patrick Chadwick View Post
Patrick - a typo I think - you presumably mean the Gew.98 (not 89!).

To All:
It would be best to avoid citing elements of the anti-semitic agitation attached to the Gew88. They are not pertinent to the aims of this forum. The matter has been comprehensively dealt with by historians, and if it is pursued here we are going to go way off topic in a matter that is both political and distasteful.

Forgetting the political dirt thrown at the Gew.88 and getting back on the topic of what the rifle is/was and what it can do, I recommend

A Collector's Guide to the German Gew.88 "Commission" Rifle
by Paul Scarlata,
Mowbray, ISBN 1-931464-30-8

Patrick
Correct: typo 89 for 98. My admiration for the Loewes precludes any form of anti-semitism. One of them was responsible for the development and manufacture of the Luger pistol. The other, together with Rathenau for the development of field telegraphy (he invented the electronic circuit board). The company Loewe Opta is still the leading TV manufacturer in Germanyicon. Under the Kaiser, Loewe was a progressive member of parliament who built the first exemplary housing projects for his employees in Berlin.