Wikipedia claims that 14,640,000 Kar98k were made up until 1945, and that a limited trial run of 6,600 G41 were made, and it was rejected for being a terrible design - over 1,600 returned to Mauser as being unusable. Seems like an exotic, experimental weapon that saw limited field trials. My own experience playing RO2 is that it was a widely used weapon that can always be had, if one so wishes.
You forgot a rather critical chunk of that wiki article..
The Mauser G41 was the model that got canned. The walther version stuck around.
G41(W) rifles were produced at two factories, namely Walther at Zella Mehlis, and Berlin Luebecker. Walther guns bear the AC code, and WaA359 inspection proofs, while BLM guns bear the DUV code with WaA214 inspection proofs. These rifles are also relatively scarce, and quite valuable in collector grade. Varying sources put production figures between 40,000 and 145,000 units. Again, these rifles saw a high attrition rate on the Eastern front.
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