Some early models had flaws due to rushed ammunition production anti-Semitic factions within the German press exploited the flaws citing a conspiracy between the rifle’s manufacturer, the Ludwig Loewe Company, and other Jewish owned manufactures, including the firm manufacturing the smokeless powder. The Commission Rifle saw field service with Germany's colonial expansion, including in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and served as a front line weapon for German troops during World War I until 1915 when there where enough Gewehr 98s however, it was used extensively by the Turkish Army even through World War II. However, this rifle soon had to be converted to fire the new pointed round that Germany adapted after the turn of the century. It was a superior replacement using the same ammunition with a stronger powder charge.
MAUSER GEWEHR 98 RIFLE COLONIAL SERIES
However within ten years a true Mauser design would be adopted, the Gewehr 98, which was the culmination of a series of Mauser models in the 1890s. The rifle has an odd appearance as the entire barrel is encased in a sheet metal tube for protection, but with the tube removed the rifle looks rather modern. The Commission Rifle's bolt action design was a modified Mannlicher action with a few Mauser features, but it is incorrect to call it a "Mauser." The barrel design and rifling were virtually copied from the French Lebel, and the magazine was based on a popular Ferdinand Mannlicher design, which allowed for rapid reloading.
The later light pointed bullet (Spitzgeschoß) round was introduced only in 1904/05, so the early Gewehr 98 was still designed for the older round-nose bullet, and had different sights. The newer round is still popular today with hunters (commonly known as the 8 mm Mauser in the USA) it remained in military service until West Germany adopted the standardized NATO ammunition after World War II. This was similar to the United States change from 30-03 to 30-06. The new round was not compatible with older rifles, and they had to be converted. The basic design of the cartridge would be adopted for higher technology powders, and shift to pointed 'Spitzer' bullets (though the trend was started by the French). This began by adapting a Swiss design resulting in a new 7.92 mm rimless "necked" cartridge, which featured smokeless powder. The first step was to design a cartridge M/88 7,92x57 mm. German Empire, 1871–1918 Adoption of the rifle included parts of modern day Poland but not Bavaria In response the German Army’s Rifle Testing Commission developed the Gewehr 88 (Commission Rifle), which was adopted for service in 1888. The practical result was that the French rifle had greater accuracy and range giving French troops a tactical advantage over the German Army. This made Germany’s rifle, the Mauser Model 1871, obsolete due to its large and slow 11 mm round. In 1886, fifteen years after their defeat by German forces in the Franco-Prussian War, the French Army introduced the new Lebel magazine rifle firing an (8 mm) high-velocity projectile. This system was used in almost all Mannlicher designs and derivatives, and while it allows for speedy reloading, it also creates an entry point for dirt. As shots are fired the clip remains in place until the last round is chambered, at which point it drops through a hole in the bottom of the rifle. The Gewehr 88 is in essence a Mannlicher design, though it is sometimes (incorrectly) called a "Model 88 Mauser." It has a receiver with a "split bridge" (i.e., the bolt passes through the receiver and locks in front of the rear bridge a rotating bolt head and the characteristic Mannlicher-style "packet loading" system in which cartridges are loaded into a steel carrier (a clip) which holds them in alignment over a spring. Unlike many of the rifles before and after, it was not developed by Mauser but the Arms Commission. Later models were updated (Gewehr 88/05 and Gewehr 88/14) and would go on to serve in World War I to a limited degree. There was also a carbine version, the Karabiner 88. The rifle was one of many weapons in the arms race between the Germanic states and France, and with Europe in general. To keep pace with the French (who had adopted smokeless powder "small bore" ammunition for their Lebel Model 1886 rifle) the Germans adopted the Gewehr 88 using its own new 7,92x57 mm cartridge, which was also designed by the German Rifle Commission. The invention of smokeless powder in the late 19th century immediately rendered all of the large-bore black powder rifles then in use obsolete. The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 Commission Rifle) was a late 19th century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888. Note: Not technically a Mauser however based on a Mauser action.
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