For sale is a Gewehr 33/40 Mountain Mauser bolt-action rifle in 7.92x57mm Mauser. Serial number- 5601. PLEASE NOTE: This rifle has been modified with a sporterized stock that is not original. 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. Seeing the shorter carbine as perfect for Gebirgsjäger alpine troops, for whom longer rifles were awkward while moving around the mountains, the G33/40 kept the same length and layout as the Vz.33 with some minor modifications. ​The changes made to the Vz.33 to convert it to the G33/40 included German-style sling hardware, a large steel buttplate, different sights, and a different bayonet lug. While something like 11 million Mauser 98s of all stripes has been produced, numbers of G33/40s account for just a fraction of that. In all, estimates are that fewer than 120,000 of these guns were made between 1940 and 1942, when Brno was converted to the manufacture of K98ks. Issued to not only mountain troops but also to space-conscious paratrooper units, many of these carbines were lost on battlefields from Tunisia to Lapland.
V2-L2
Barrel Length: 19
Bore condition: Good
Year Manufactured: 1940