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Sounds like Grandpa would know. I will follow your advice and adapt the script a bit.
Foxy is gonna need that accuracy, possibly
Just call it an 8mm Mauser, that's how it's designated by SAAMI and how basically everybody knows it. The caliber, that is. The rifle is still called a Mauser 98k or Karabiner 98k if you want to be all proper and German.My Grampa has always preached that it was worth to pay for the reproduced 7,92mm bullets instead of converting the calibre, as the accuracy was said to suffer no matter what. The 98k was his service rifle issued in 1945 when he was 14... he hid it away before surrendering. He was a hunter, so later he owned it legally. I guess there were not much questions asked about the origins of WW2 weapons in the early years..
I have a pristine matching serial Wehrmacht-marked one in my collection (at least until my facist government decides to ban it like fucking everything else) and between it, my M1 Garand, and my Lee Enfield it's easily the smoothest shooting and most accurate of the WW2 battle-rifles (although the Garand is probably the most fun, if you don't count loading the clips...PING!). Mosins are shit and I never managed to find a Type 99, so I don't own either of those.