Probably the 7.92mm. Not because the Germans are warrior supermen, but because between 1901-1975 the G&K98 chambering either 7.92 or similar caliber ammo was used by over 100 nations, from Argentina to Zaire.
At the outbreak of WWII, China, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Spain, Poland, Germany,Lithuania, Finland, Denmark(?), Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and others I cant think of off the top of my head were all using some variant of the G/K98 rifle. Some were of different calibers, Argentina's, for example were 7.65mm I think.
Czech supplied K98's were some of the first weapons purchased by the Israeli government. They rechambered them for .308 in the fifties along with Spain, and others, because of price and supply concerns. Czechoslovakia also supplied many K98's to Africa and South/Central America in the 50's. The K98 along,with the AK-47, AKM, was the communist weapon of revolution in the fifties and early sixties, thousands turning up IndoChina during Vietnam. Of the weapons seized on Grenada in '83('84?) many were K98's.
[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: talleyrand ]
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