Gv. 1905 rifle

The Gewear 05 (Tipsprek: 𐌲𐌴𐍅𐌴𐌰𐍂 05), abbreviated officially as the '''Gw. 05 and sometimes colloquially referred to as the Wexford 1905''', is a chambered in .264 Wexford (6.5x55mm) that was adopted as the standard service rifle by the Tiperyn Realm Defence in 1905. The platform experienced several upgrades and specialist variation through its service lifetime. It served as Tiperyn's primary service rifle during the Grand Campaigns and as a reserve and rear-echelon rifle during the Great Kesh War and the early years of the Nasiri Civil War following the adoption of the semi-automatic Gewear 47. Its specialist variants, including the Skerpskuttersgewear 22 sniper rifle, served far longer with the Gewear 05 being completely phased out as a specialist and ceremonial weapon by 1983.

The rifle was developed by Maryland Wexford of Wexford Gunworks as the bookend to Tiperyn's families, replacing the Hawtrey Gewear 88 still chambered in a, large calibre cartridge. The Gewear 05 was Tiperyn's first service rifle, chambering the .264 Song—a Koryese cartridge that was originally created for use in the Song Model 1899 rifle. In 1909, the Gewear 05 was improved to the Gewear 05/09 standard, chambering the new .264 Wexford, which implemented a  design over the round-nosed, flat-based .264 Song. All later variants would be chambered in .264 Wexford, which remains the standard full-power rifle cartridge of Tiperyn and several North-South Concordant member states as of 2020.

The final mainline variant of the Gewear 05 was adopted in 1925 as the Gewear 05/25. It incorporated some design aspects introduced in earlier marks—including an enlarged magazine of 7 rounds versus the original 5-round magazine—as well as new features—such as aperture sights at the rear of the action, shortened profile and a hooded front sight post. As it was adopted in the last year of the Grand Campaigns, it only saw limited combat with select regiments from the duchies of Tipslan and Idlerein on the Western Artemian Front. Introduced simultaneously with this iteration of the rifle was a conversion kit that allowed for the replacement of the bolt with a blowback-operated, magazine-fed mechanism to convert it into a semi-automatic carbine chambered in a commercially available 6.5mm pistol cartridge.

Approximately 20 million Gewear 05s of all variants were produced by Tiperyn and on license by Koryeo, Guurdalai, and Arroyo-Abeille.

Users

 * Arroyo-Abeille: Produced domestically
 * Asharistan: Provided by Tiperyn as military aid to Yazidi groups prior to the Great Kesh War and exported as surplus following Asharistan's founding.
 * Guurdalai: Provided by Tiperyn as military aid during the Grand Campaigns and Great Kesh War and produced domestically after the former.
 * Koryeo: Used as a substitute and rear echelon rifle with these rifles placed into storage at the end of the Grand Campaigns in 1926 and never issued after. Also produced on contract for Tiperyn service.
 * SiWallqanqa: Provided by Tiperyn as military aid
 * Teutonia: Provided by Tiperyn as military aid to communist militants during the Grand Campaigns and used thereafter as reserve weapons.
 * Tiperyn: Used by all branches of the Tiperyn Realm Defence, Holy Guard, and civil police forces. Phased out of frontline service rifle service by the early 1950s, but continued service as a sharpshooter and ceremonial weapon until 1983.