Production started at the Oberndorf factory for the infantry version firing an 11 x 60 mm round from a long 850 mm barrel, and shorter versions were introduced with the 700 mm barreled jaeger and 500 mm cavalry carbine. The new Mauser Model 1871 rifle was adopted as the Gewehr 71, or Infanterie-Gewehr 71 ( I.G.Mod.71 was printed on the rifles themselves). The Franco-Prussian war had shown their current rifle inferior to the Chassepot, so in 1871 the Mauser Model 1871 became the standard German infantry rifle. In 1867 Wilhelm and Paul Mauser developed a rifle using an improved rotating bolt system for breechloaders based on the Chassepot (fusil modele 1866), itself a much improved version of an earlier Prussian design, the Dreyse. The factory opened for business the next year, employing 133 workers. What was to become a Mauser, or Mouser, factory opened on July 31, 1811, when Friedrich I of Württemberg established a royal weapons factory in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest.
1.1.9 Type A, Modell B, Modell K, Armee-Modell C, Afrika-Modell.
