Having earned its spurs in the first world war, the Enfield drew heavily from a Mauser action and was the direct ancestor of the American Springfield. British forces relied upon the Enfield bolt action rifle to supply their forces. Accurate and powerful, the G43 is a favorite of weapon collectors. Fed by a 10 round drop-down box magazine, it could be loaded from the top via stripper clips if the situation called for it. The G43 was a reliable, fairly easy to produce equivalent to the M1. The Germans also used the G43 (as mentioned). Despite attempts by the Wehrmacht to replace the aging design with semi-automatic rifles (the failed G41 and later the somewhat successful G43), the K98k continued to be irreplaceable. Fed by a 5 round stripper clip in a fully integrated magazine, the K98k had an excellent rate of fire for a bolt action weapon when first introduced. The short carbine, model 1898 was arguably one of the best bolt-action rifles ever developed. The German forces were issued with the tried and true Karabiner 1898 kurtz aka Kar 98 aka K98k, aka Mauser 1898. Fed by an 8 round magazine that was infamous for being tricky to load (M1 thumb) and for the audible *ping!* of the empty clip being ejected when you were out of ammo, it was still considered to be one of the best weapons of the war for its ease in mass production, reliability, and stopping power. American forces were issued with the semi-automatic M1 Garand, a firearm which 9 times out of 10 gave them vast fire superiority over their enemies at all but close range. Historically the vast majority of firearms issued to soldiers during the Second World War were bolt-action weapons. The reality is they are quite powerful when properly implemented. Bolt-Action/Semi-Automatic Firearms: These are often disregarded by new players as being weak and ineffective.
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