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K98 mauser rifle cartridge9/21/2023 ![]() Reliable but crude, the 71/84 soon gave way to better Mausers. After Wilhelm died young in 1882, Paul designed a nine-shot tube magazine for the 1871 rifle. The firm delivered the last Model 1871s ahead of schedule in 1878. Undaunted, Paul and Wilhelm earned enough making sights to build a factory.Įventually awarded a contract for 100,000 rifles, they partnered with the Wuerttemberg Vereinsbank of Stuttgart to buy the Wuerttemberg Royal Armory. ![]() Alas, the brothers pocketed just 15% of what they’d expected and the new rifles were to be built in government arsenals, not at the Mauser shop. In 1872 the Mauser Model of 1871 became Prussia’s infantry rifle. Wilhelm’s business acumen brought it to military trials. Together with his brother Wilhelm in Oberndorf, Germany, Paul’s mechanical genius birthed a single-shot rifle firing an 11mm (0.43″) black-powder cartridge hurling 385-grain bullets at 1,400 fps.
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