The now well known Mauser "wing" type safety lever was developed for the Gewehr 71. The action was not based on its predecessor, the Dreyse needle gun which had seen service during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, and which was found to have a number of weaknesses. The Mauser 1871 was replaced by the magazine-fed, smokeless powder using Gewehr 1888 from 1888 through 1890. The rifles were issued to the German Army from late 1873 to 1875, with approximately 1.82 million rifles and Jägerbüchse and 80,000–100,000 carbines produced. With support from the government's Spandau arsenal, the improvements to the safety mechanism were completed and the rifle was formally accepted on 14 February 1872 as Infantry Rifle Model 1871 by the German Empire, excluding Bavaria that adopted the Werder. The Mauser was provisionally adopted on 2 December 1871, pending the development of an appropriate safety.
In 1870–71 trials with 2,500 test rifles took place, with the M1869 Bavarian Werder being the Mausers' chief competitor. Paul Mauser developed his bolt-action rifle from 1867 to 1871. The Mauser Model 1871 adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71, or "Infantry Rifle 71" ("I.G.Mod.71" was stamped on the rifles themselves) was the first rifle model in a distinguished line designed and manufactured by Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser of the Mauser company and later mass-produced at Spandau arsenal. Iron sights graduated from 200 to 1,600 meters
Single-shot M71/84: 8-round tubular magazine M80/07: 5-round stripper clip, internal magazine 1872–1888 (as the standard German service rifle) 1881–1945 (limited and foreign use)įirst Boer War, Serbo-Bulgarian War, First Sino-Japanese War, First Italo-Ethiopian War, Second Boer War, Boxer Rebellion, Balkan Wars, World War I, Easter Rising, German Revolution of 1918–19, World War II (limited)
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