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The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 commission rifle) was a late 19th-century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888.. The invention of smokeless powder in the late 19th century immediately rendered all of the large-bore black powder rifles then in use obsolete.
11-mm Mauser is the service rifle of the Martian Army in The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. [39] However, the book states these were bought as surplus from the Spanish–American War, which would in fact make them Model 1893 7×57mm Mauser. In the film The Last Samurai, the Japanese Imperial Army carries German bolt-action Mauser M1871/84 ...
Gewehr 71 (German Empire – rifle – 1871) Gewehr 98 (German Empire – rifle – 1898) Mauser C78 "zig-zag" (German Empire – revolver – 1878) Mauser C96 (German Empire – pistol – 1896) Maxim Gun (United Kingdom – machine gun – 1883) Merrill carbine (USA – rifle – 1858/1863) Merwin & Hulbert revolvers (USA – revolver – 1876)
The Regal Württemberg Rifle Factory, between the end of the Napoleonic wars and 1850, had only 50 employees and an output of about 200 weapons per year; even in the decades 1850-1870, when the smooth-bore muskets were replaced by rifles and 1868–1871, when 200 employees built the needle-ignition rifles, the factory was in deficit.
Otherwise, the Gras rifle was basically identical in outward appearance to the Chassepot rifle. Nearly all rifles of the older Chassepot model (Mle 1866) remaining in store were eventually converted to take the 11 mm Gras metallic cartridge ammunition (fusil Modèle 1866/74). About 665,327 Chassepot rifles had been captured by the German ...
Mauser, originally the Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik, was a German arms manufacturer. Their line of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic pistols was produced beginning in the 1870s for the German armed forces. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mauser designs were also exported and licensed to many countries, which adopted ...
1740 pattern musket (top), needle gun and Franco-Prussian War era Mauser rifle made at Spandau Royal Arsenal. The 1740 pattern Potzdam Musket, derived from the earlier 1723 pattern, was produced from 1740 to 1760 and used the same standardised parts. [15] The mounts were brass, and the barrel was shortened by 11 inches (280 mm). [16]