The rifle was adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71 and was the first metal cartridge weapon of the German Empire. Following the death of his brother Wilhelm, January 13 , Paul Mauser takes over sole leadership of the expanding company. Amongst other fire arms the Mauser company also developed the Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k rifle series.
The Gewehr 98 itself was the latest in a line of Mauser rifles that were introduced in the s. Even more.. Although supplemented by semi- and fully automatic rifles during World War II, it remained the German service rifle until the end of the war in The immortal Mauser M 98 is still produced from the original drawings, but can now also draw on the latest advances in production technology.
Can you think of a single consumer product that is still being produced in the same form it was years ago, and is still considered by many to be state of the art? Just think, every cartridge with the. Talk about epochal contributions to firearms technology!
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A house in Oberndorf was also rented to fulfill the Bavarian order. By 23 May , the Mauser partnership had three factories in Oberndorf. Wilhelm Mauser suffered from health problems throughout his life, which were aggravated by his frequent business travels. A combination of these led to his death on 13 January In the Mauser Company was invited to take part in a competition to re-equip the German Army with a semi-automatic rifle , the Gewehr A number of impractical requirements were specified, including that the design should not use holes drilled into the barrel to take off gas for the operating mechanism, thereby requiring mechanisms that proved unreliable.
Two designs were submitted, and the Mauser version, the G 41 M , failed miserably in testing. It was canceled after a short production run. The resulting design did not see real success before it was switched to a simpler gas-operated system in the Gewehr During World War II, the Mauser factory in Oberndorf was strategically bombed by the Allies, resulting in the deaths of 26 workers and the destruction of the company's power plant. French forces entered Oberndorf which they subsequently occupied for some time on 20 April when the town's mayor and planning committee surrendered without any resistance; no blood was shed there on that day.
After the war in Europe, the factory was briefly put back in order to produce weapons for the now under-equipped and exhausted French military. For a number of years, Mauser Werke manufactured precision measurement instruments and tools, such as micrometers. Mauser continued to make hunting and sporting rifles. In , it became a subsidiary of Rheinmetall, a manufacturer of autocannons such as the Mauser BK and other munitions until , when it was merged into Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Gmbh.
In the civilian manufacture of hunting, defense, and sporting rifles were split off from Rheinmetall. Mausers were readily adapted as hunting rifles; in Africa, Safari rifles were often made from Mausers.
These rifles were often rechambered in larger rounds up to and including. The adaptations usually consisted of shortening the foregrip and barrel , rechambering to accommodate popular British rounds, and minor alterations to the action.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, companies that made alterations were generally Commonwealth-based. Several proprietary big game rounds were specifically for hunting large and dangerous game. Today, large and small bore Mauser-derived rifles are made all over the world for the civilian market and are popular with hunters.
Surplus military Mausers, many in mint condition, have also entered the civilian market, to be purchased by collectors and gun owners. Some of these are still in competitive use, although with the benefit of new barrels. The strong following enjoyed by surplus military Mausers is partly a testament to their reliability and quality of manufacture. Additionally, the widespread availability and comparative low cost of surplus military ammunition has served to continue their use by shooting enthusiasts.
That being said, vintage surplus ammunition usually requires specialized cleaning regimens to prevent aggressive and rapid metal oxidation caused by corrosive salts moisture attracting contained in their priming compounds. Care must be taken to thoroughly and promptly clean and neutralize these salts after firing corrosive ammunition, lest the weapon suffer metal and mechanical damage.
In India and South Asia, few people are aware that "Mauser" is actually a brand name. The first Western-made handguns introduced into India were made by the Mauser company, and the term has entered the lexicon to mean any heavy pistol. Between and , the Mauser brothers and Samuel Norris developed a single shot bolt-action rifle.
The caliber and number produced are not known. Ludwig Olson wrote that an example had at one time been on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. The bolt head did not rotate, a feature chosen by Paul Mauser to "protect the heads of paper cartridges from friction and possible damage while locking the bolt, and to provide a non-rotary seat for the extractor when metallic cartridges were used.
An improved version of the rifle used a coil spring wrapped around the firing pin and a safety and a cocking piece attached to the rear of the firing pin. The Mauser Model was the Mauser brothers' first rifle. Slightly modified versions were widely sold to other countries, firing bullets that would today be considered very large, typically 9.
Such large bullets were necessary due to the limitations of black powder, which limited velocities. Serbia designed an improved version of the Model 71 in The Turkish model rifle was the first of a series of rifles produced for the Turkish Army. The Turkish contract specified that if any other nation ordered Mauser rifles with more advanced technology, that design would be substituted for the Model to fill the remainder of the Turkish order. This clause was utilized after Belgium adopted the Model rifle.
In the French Army introduced the Lebel Model rifle , which used a smokeless powder cartridge. Smokeless powder allowed smaller diameter bullets to be propelled at higher velocities, with accuracy to 1, yards m , making most other military rifles obsolete. Its disadvantage was a slow-to-load 8-round tube magazine. The German Army adopted the best features of the Lebel for the Gewehr 88, also known as the Model Commission Rifle , along with a modified Mauser action and a Mannlicher -style box magazine.
The Karabiner 88 was the carbine version. Both would be updated in the early 20th century and saw limited use in World War I. The Gewehr 88 was not actually a Mauser designed and engineered rifle. The I and IS designations are used to differentiate the two bullets used with the same basic cartridge. The actual diameter of the 8. Commonly known today as the "8 mm Mauser I", it was used for later Mauser rifle models. This was not a Mauser designed and engineered cartridge.
It was rimless, which allowed smoother feeding for both rifles and machine guns. The original bullet had a round nose and was relatively heavy by modern standards but was typical of early smokeless powder small bore military designs. Several redesigns, including the adoption of the spitzer bullet of grains weight, led to a change in the rifling groove depth from.
This bullet, with a sharp point and boat tail, brought the cartridge to its eventual potency. Only later. The increased pressure from the larger cartridge may cause a catastrophic failure of the firearm. A qualified gunsmith can verify the correct chambering by slugging the barrel.
The mark and caliber applied by the proofing house may also be utilized to properly identify the correct caliber of the rifle. The R included in this style of designations indicates a cartridge with a rim, which functions better in some types of rifles, especially drillings and other types of combination guns. These often have slightly lower power to match the weaker actions present in some of these rifles.
Many such guns continued to use the smaller 0. Particular care should be taken to determine the actual caliber of such guns before firing them. Mauser Experimental Model 92 in caliber 8x58R. This rifle took part in the rifle trials that led to the Swedish Mauser.
The commission preferred to create their own design. Paul Mauser created two different variations of the same rifle, one with a stock strengthened with a barrel shroud and a traditional design following the layout of the 71 series in hope he might be able to overturn the commission's decision, or at least sell his design to the Kingdom of Bavaria, which adopted its own arms.
The two rifles became known as the 89 Belgian with a barrel shroud and the 91 Argentine with a 71 layout Mausers, identical in their function and feed system. The main features were the ability to use stripper clips to feed the magazine a revolution in rate of fire , and its rimless cartridge 7. The system proved impressive at the Bavarian Arms Trials. Both firearms were a success, but decision-makers were not convinced that the stripper feed was superior to the en-block system employed by Mannlicher.
In response, Mauser started small-scale production of the design in an effort to interest foreign nations, but failed to convince any of the European major powers. The Belgian attache, however, urged his government to contact Mauser, hoping the design might give them a chance to found a domestic arms industry. The heavy-barreled Mauser with the barrel shroud resulted in the founding of arms manufacturer FN Herstal.
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