During the Cold War, many nations developed domestically sourced sniping rifles, and many of those rifles were based on pre-World War II designs. One nation that reconfigured a previously used bolt-action service rifle to meet the needs of precision marksmen was France, and the result was the FRF2 sniper rifle.
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Adoption of the Mauser 98 bolt-action rifle by Germany on April 5, 1898, marked an important event in rifle history. Today, a century later, the name Mauser 98 is still well-known worldwide and is symbolic of rifle excellence.