Gewehr 1888
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gewehr-1888-180-15203893
title:
Gewehr 1888
text:
The Gewehr 88 was a late 19th-century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888. The invention of smokeless powder in the late 19th century immediately rendered all of the large-bore black powder rifles then in use obsolete. To keep pace with the French the Germans adopted the Gewehr 88 using its own new Patrone 88 cartridge, which was also designed by the German Rifle Commission. The rifle was one of many weapons in the arms race between the Germanic states and France, and with Europe in genera
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Service rifle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gewehr_1888
date created:
2006-03-05T11:46:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T12:37:01Z
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13
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