Most casualties were actually caused by artillery fire not indiviual weapons fire. IN Vietnam literally thousands of rounds were expened for every ememy soldier that was even wounded. Makes you wonder wether firepower is really as effective as the movies make it out to be. They did not fire as fast but when they did shoot they hit what they were aiming at. bulk of its fighting capacity and experience held by only 15 20 old sweats. On the other hand the seasoned combat vetern that was trained as a sniper often racked up a tremedous number of kills. Seitengewehr M1898/1905 Mauser Rifle 98 / Gewehr 98 Trench Magazine. It all had to do with the psychology of the shooter under the stress of combat. German soldiers in a trench, the soldier in the background has an extended 25 round 'trench magazine' fixed to his Gew 98.
They only started firing when they were given a fully automatice weapon. lng-gewehr-98-rifle The Gewehr 98 (abbreviated G98, Gew 98 or M98) is a German bolt action rifle made by Mauser firing cartridges from a 5-round internal stripper clip-loaded magazine. Holding 25-rounds in a steel box, it replaced the standard. When a semi-auto was given to them the same thing happened. Germany responded by retrofitting large Trench magazines to their Gewehr 98 Mauser rifles. If alone with a bolt gun they generally did not fire it at all. It is not a well know fact but the Russians studied men under fire that were alone and seperated from their comrades during WWII. World War I would see very large spike in demand for the companys rifles, as well as a number of variants of it.
What people generally do not realize that when in combat you generally fire only a few shots and then move fast because if you stay in the same position you generally do not live very long because everyone will direct their fire in your direction if you stay put with your head up blazing away back at them. Paul Mauser died before the start of World War I that August. While a similar extended box magazine was actually tested in Switzerland, it had a. It is shown in the game with a curved extended magazine (resembling the Gewehr 98 'trench' magazine), which apparently is inspired by an unconfirmed 20-round box magazine that was allegedly tested by the German Infantry in WWI. It was no big deal to shoot five rounds and reload with a 5 round stripper clip and shoot 5 more rounds in less than 60 seconds and put them all in the bullseye at 300 yards. The Mondragón Modelo 1908 rifle is used by German soldiers. I used to shoot a bolt gun in National Match shooting.