After receiving the order from Luo Chong, Lin Fei immediately returned and began selecting people to form the new project team. Since the Engineering Machinery project was now basically complete, he was not short of research and development personnel.
Besides, the new workers assigned to the various factories had gradually become proficient, and the factories' production teams had grown increasingly strong.
Meanwhile, Luo Chong began compiling a list of weapons at home, along with some blueprints he had drawn in his spare time.
The 7.62-caliber Bolt-action Rifle had been improved from the earlier G98. Not only had its caliber been reduced by 0.38 millimeters, but its length had also been shortened accordingly, from 1.25 meters to 1.1 meters. The Bolt Handle had also been changed to a downward-curving design more in line with human ergonomics. In appearance, the new rifle looked much more like the 98K. Aside from the different caliber, the new Bolt-action Rifle was no different from the original 98K.
This was not because Luo Chong liked some particular game. Looking across all the Bolt-action Rifles of his previous life, the Mauser series truly had been among the finest in the world.
As far as Bolt-action Rifles went, the world could broadly be divided into three major categories. First was the Soviet Union's Mosin–Nagant, then Britain's British Old Lee Style, while everything else belonged to the Mauser family or was a Mauser imitation. China's Chiang Kai-shek Rifle, German 98K Mauser, American Springfield Mauser, and Japanese Type 38 Mauser were all imitations or improved versions of the Mauser.
The fact that so many countries had chosen the Mauser alone showed how popular its bolt-action design was.
Of the other two major categories, the Mosin–Nagant had good accuracy and long range, but its bolt-action mechanism was poor. The bolt was