The next innovation was the Model 93 (commonly referred to as the Spanish Mauser, although the model was adopted by other countries in other calibers, most notably the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)), which introduced a short staggered-column box magazine as standard, holding five 7 x 57 mm rounds flush with the bottom of the rifle, which could be quickly reloaded by pushing a strip of rounds down from the top of the open bolt. Army of that year, wherein the Krag-Jørgensen rifle was chosen. The Model 92, in several variations, participated in rifle trials for the U.S. In the model 92, the non-rotating mauser claw extractor was introduced. The 1889 Belgian, 1890 Turkish, and 1891 Argentine are distinquishable by the single column box magazine that protrudes from the stock in front of the trigger guard. See above Models 89/90/91 and Experimental Model 92 The Mauser Model 1871 was Mauser's first rifle. For example, the Mauser Model 92 was not adopted by Germany, but the Mauser Model 98 was adopted as the Gewehr 98, though some designations also use Model. The names of Mauser rifles is split between company designations and German military designations. Only later versions of Gewehr 98, or converted 88 and 98 rifles could fire the improved "S" cartridges. The original bullet had a round head several redesigns including the adoption of the spitzer bullet with a sharp point and boat-tail brought the cartridge to its current potency. The cartridge was rimless which allowed smoother feeding for both rifles and machine guns. This weapon was designed around the new 7.92x57 I cartridge commonly known today as the 8 mm Mauser which incorporated the advantages of smokeless powder and higher velocity found in the Lebel. Note this was not a Mauser engineered rifle. There was also a Carbine version, the Karabiner 88 both would be updated in the 1900s and see limited use in WWI. The German army introduced the best features of the Lebel in the Gewehr 88, also known as the Model 1888 Commission Rifle ( Judenflinte), along with a modified Mauser action and a Mannlicher style box magazine. In 1886 the French Army introduced the Lebel Model 1886 using smokeless powder, allowing smaller diameter rounds to be propelled at higher velocities, with accuracy out to 1,000 yards most other military rifles became obsolete. Its design echoed that of the German Gewehr 71/84 service rifle, being a bolt-action weapon with a tubular magazine beneath the barrel.
The Turkish Model 1887 rifle was the first of a series of rifles produced for the Turkish Army by Mauser. In 1884 an 8-shot tubular magazine was added by Mauser, who offered the Model 71/84. Serbia designed an improved version of the Model 71 in 10.15 mm caliber, produced in Germany, called the Mauser-Milovanovic M1878/80. It was adopted by the German Empire but not Bavaria.Ī number of slightly modified versions were widely sold to other countries, with rounds that would today be considered very large, typically 9.5 to 11.5 mm in caliber. Production started at the Oberndorf factory for the infantry version firing an 11 x 60 mm round from a long 850 mm barrel, and shorter versions were introduced with the 700 mm barreled jaeger and 500 mm cavalry carbine. The new Mauser Model 1871 rifle was adopted as the Gewehr 71, or Infanterie-Gewehr 71 ( I.G.Mod.71 was printed on the rifles themselves). The Franco-Prussian war had shown their current rifle inferior to the Chassepot, so in 1871 the Mauser Model 1871 became the standard German infantry rifle. In 1867 Wilhelm and Paul Mauser developed a rifle using an improved rotating bolt system for breechloaders based on the Chassepot (fusil modele 1866), itself a much improved version of an earlier Prussian design, the Dreyse. The factory opened for business the next year, employing 133 workers. What was to become a Mauser, or Mouser, factory opened on July 31, 1811, when Friedrich I of Württemberg established a royal weapons factory in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest. 1.1.9 Type A, Modell B, Modell K, Armee-Modell C, Afrika-Modell.