SWIT Airsoft are now selling the limited edition Trench Airsoft Gewehr 98 Spring Powered Airsoft Rifle at their online store and the text here came from one of their customers... "A new airsoft workshop named Trench Airsoft have brought us a famous WW1 Germany Rifle the famous Gewehr 98(or Gew98). As a classic gun collector, I have kept my eyes on them since I read someone share their plan on this project. And I have to say, as a small workshop like them, they done it pretty good. But seems like they only produce 100 Gew98 this time, I’m not sure if they still have it in stock.

When I first time saw the info, it’s a post quite funny that they held a small crowed funding activity that you can pre-order the Gew98 with special price and be the first one to get it. And they will proceed once there’s enough orders for them to finish the project. They also promise they will refund all the price if the fund is not enough. To me I’m willing to support them, they already done several projects before and most review I heard are good about what they delivered. After 6 months waiting, I finally got the package.

Original Gewehr 98 (Wikipedia)

The Original Gewehr 98

Here’s some info of Gew98 from wiki if you are not familiar with the WW1 gun. The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt-action rifle made by Mauser, firing cartridges from a five-round internal clip-loaded magazine. It was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k, a shorter weapon using the same basic design. The Gewehr 98 action, using a stripper clip loaded with the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge, successfully combined and improved several bolt-action engineering concepts which were soon adopted by many other countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Japan. The Gewehr 98 replaced the earlier Gewehr 1888 as the main German service rifle. It first saw combat in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and was the main German infantry service rifle of World War I. The Gewehr 98 saw further military use by the Ottoman Empire and Nationalist Spain.

The Impression

First The package is solid hard cardboard package with foam they hold gun tight inside the box. On the outside there’s a beautiful label on it which has bring out more value of this WW1 beauty. Just appreciate they try their best on protecting this product for international delivery.

You will quickly notice that the gun is quite heavy. It has full metal parts with nice quality wood, you can always tell different from high quality products and other “toys”. After I test it with magnet, there are several parts are made from Steel. Include charging handle, rear sight, outer barrel, chamber, front sight, and other hardware on wood stock. For other details, I will let the photos do the talk from here :D

This super long barrel is in steel, no wonder it’s so heavy. And The bayonet plug can fit on the original Gew98 bayonet.

The classic roller-coaster shape rear sight also made in steel.

The steel chamber with beautiful 1906 full engraving.

Beautiful wooden stock with the special Gew98 Sling plug and the circle metal parts just same as Original one.

Straight charging handle also very identical to this WW1 Rifle. Whole receiver parts just beautiful done.

The Performance

Trench Airsoft Gew98 is installed with reliable system which is same to Tanaka K98, it is also same system to Snow Wolf K98. As my experience although this system can’t reach high FPS due to limited valve, but it’s very easy to pull and have extra function that the rifle holds the bolt when the magazine is empty. And hop-up adjusting lever is hiding well under rear sight.

Trench Airsoft have improved the hop up chamber to CNC level for lower tolerance, and the inner barrel is installed with 510mm which can upgrade to even longer. With all the effort Trench Airsoft done, the performance is much better than K98 of Tanaka or Snow Wolf. If you plan to join airsoft event with this WW1 rifle, there will be no problem at all. It will do its duty well even at the open field.

It’s definitely a nice Gew98 from Trench Airsoft.

Overall

To me, the Trench Airsoft Gew98 springer airsoft rifle is a good airsoft gun for collection, and it can even do its job well on airsoft field. If you are interested in WW1 airsoft gun, don’t miss the chance to own it. Even the price is over US$800.00, with the quality trench airsoft delivered I think it’s very suit to the price. Besides, it’s currently hard to find another Gew98 on market. Happy to see there’s some manufacturer finally willing to build products like this one.

Now you can also order it from SWIT Airsoft. According to my experience, they are reliable since I purchased multiple times from them already, although sometimes it takes couples weeks for them to get products ready."