The rifle also comes with another neat accessory, which was not fitted for the video. It has clamp-on luminous sights to allow more accurate shooting at night, and also an extended 25-round fixed magazine to give the shooter much more ammo to fire before needing to reload. In addition to the trench periscope stock, this rifle has also been fitted with a couple other WWI modifications. While all the major powers in the war developed devices like this, the one we are looking at today is German. That way the rifle could be lifted up to get a clear shot at the enemy trenches while the shooter remained safely out of sight using mirrors to see his sights and a length of wire to pull his trigger. One answer that was devised was to mount a rifle to a periscope. This leaves one with the question of, how to shoot back without risking a bullet?
As World War One stagnated into trench warfare, snipers and machine guns quickly proliferated, and exposure above the parapet of one’s trench could be extremely hazardous.
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