The Mod.71 Mauser is a rather plain and conventional looking bolt action single shot chambered in typical 11 millimeter. The now universally recognized "wing" type safety lever on the back of the bolt was developed to fill this requirement and the Mod.71 Mauser was adopted by Germany in early 1872. The Mauser was provisionally adopted at the end of 1871 pending the development of an appropriate safety. During 1870-71 trials with many different rifles took place, with the M1869 Bavarian Werder being Mauser’s chief competitor.
Almost every good original feature of the metallic cartridge, turning bolt action design, was the work of design genius Peter Paul Mauser who systematically developed his basic design over an extended period of time and, while based on the Dreyse action, was innovative and one of the first successful metallic cartridge, bolt action rifles. 71 German Mauser was the first of what would become literally millions of rifles manufactured to the design of the brothers Paul and Wilhelm Mauser and the first regulation brass cartridge rifle of the German Imperial Army.
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