The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 commission rifle) 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 (who had adopted smokeless powder "small bore" ammunition for …

Gewehr is the German word for a rifle.Prior to the 1840s, rifled guns were not widespread, usually muzzle-loading and termed Büchse, as they are still in German hunting jargon today. Afterwards, Gewehr became the standard term for military-type rifles. The term "Gewehr" can be encountered in the context of 19th and 20th century military history for nonspecific rifles from German …

Das Martini-Henry-Gewehr, das Großbritannien ab 1871 einführte, war das erste britische Gewehr, das von Anfang an für eine Metallpatrone konstruiert war. ... Nachfolger war das Lee-Metford-Gewehr, das ab 1888 eingeführt wurde. Die Martini-Henry-Gewehre blieben bis in die Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs in den britischen Kolonien im Dienst ...

Gewehr 43 (G 43 и Karabiner 43, K 43) — германская 7,9-мм самозарядная винтовка времён Второй мировой войны, являющаяся модификацией более ранней винтовки Gewehr 41 с изменённой газоотводной системой, схожей с таковой у советской ...