{"id":30450,"date":"2026-09-23T07:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/bavarian-lightning-the-new-model-werder-m1869-76\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:55:10","slug":"bavarian-lightning-the-new-model-werder-m1869-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/bavarian-lightning-the-new-model-werder-m1869-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavarian Lightning: The New Model Werder M1869\/76"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reCXaWwUnko?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cold War Battle Rifles of NATO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/cold-war-battle\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/cold-war-battle<\/a><br \/>Varusteleka Light Wool Check Shirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/srm-light-wool-check-shirt-v3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/srm-light-wool-check-shirt-v3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poor Bavaria got the rug pulled on its infantry rifle program a solid three times in only about 20 years. With the development of the self-contained brass cartridge, they run a new rifle trials program and adopt the Werder M1869 &#8211; the fastest-firing and arguably most advanced of all the single-shot military rifles of the era. It is going into production as the Franco-Prussian War begins, and rifles are sent out to units as fast as they can be made. Field reports show that Bavarian troops love the guns; they are fast and accurate and particularly better than the clunky Podewils-Lindner converted muzzleloaders also in Bavarian service.<\/p>\n<p>The standard Werder lasts for barely a few years before the establishment of the new German state requires a standardized rifle cartridge. Bavaria has to adopt the Prussian 11mm Mauser round, and they do their best to adapt the Werder to this round &#8211; but it is tricky, because the Mauser round is substantially longer and more powerful than the Werder cartridge. After some efforts they move to just build brand new Mauser-chambered Werders from scratch &#8211; and that&#8217;s the M1869\/76 that we are looking at here today. But this rifle too lasts barely a few years before the Bavarian state replaces it with the M1871 Mauser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold War Battle Rifles of NATO: https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/cold-war-battleVarusteleka Light Wool Check Shirt: https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/srm-light-wool-check-shirt-v3 Poor Bavaria got the rug pulled on its infantry rifle program a solid three times in only about 20 years. With the development of the self-contained brass cartridge, they run a new rifle trials program and adopt the Werder M1869 &#8211; the fastest-firing&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/bavarian-lightning-the-new-model-werder-m1869-76\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bavarian Lightning: The New Model Werder M1869\/76<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}