The Model 1916 rifle was adopted on 14 November 1916 to replace the M1895 carbine, the short barrels of which were not optimized to take advantage of the higher velocity of the M1913 cartridge. Surviving M1913s were issued to buglers in cavalry squadrons beginning on 2 April 1918. The rifle was issued in small numbers for field trials beginning in 1914, but they were soon superseded by the Model 1916 short rifle. It retained the same length barrel and the same action, but unlike the M1895, the forward barrel band incorporated a bayonet lug for the M1893 sword bayonet. The short rifle was slightly shorter than the carbine, at 37.2 in (940 mm) overall, though it was slightly heavier, at 7.12 pounds (3.23 kg) empty.
The Model 1913 short rifle was an experimental development to replace the M1895, though it was identical to the M1895 in most respects. The left side of the rear of the receiver was cut down to facilitate the use of stripper clips. Unlike on the longer rifles, the upper barrel band did not include a bayonet lug.
In 1896, the design was modified slightly, to add a sling ring to the barrel band and a sling bracket in the left side of the butt. Since the carbine was intended to be used by cavalry, it used a single, large lanyard loop on the bottom of the wrist instead of traditional sling loops. The M1895 carbine also differed in some minor details, including the rear sight, which was graduated only to 1,400 meters (4,600 ft), and the bolt handle, which was turned down. The carbine weighed 7 to 7.5 pounds (3.2 to 3.4 kg) empty. The carbine had an overall length of 37.4 inches (950 mm), with a 17.55-inch (446 mm) barrel and a stock that extended to the end of the barrel. Ludwig Loewe manufactured around 22,500 of the M1895 carbines between 18 before licensing production to Fábrica de Armas, which built an unknown number of the rifles between 18, when production changed over to the Model 1916 short rifle. It received the 1895 designation as the Spanish Army did not approve the carbine for service until that year. Though the carbine bears the 1895 designation, it did not include the improvements made in the M1895, and was essentially just a shortened M1893.
The Spanish Army adopted the Model 1895 carbine on the rifle was essentially a shortened M1893, with a full-length stock that ran to the muzzle. Most of these rifles still in Turkish hands were later re-barreled and converted to fire the far more common and powerful 7.92×57mm Mauser after the Turkish Army adopted that caliber. The bayonet lug fit the M1890 Bayonet, which the Ottomans had already acquired in large numbers. Their rifles were chambered for the 7.65×53mm Argentine cartridge and were identical to the Spanish model, except for a, which when engaged permitted the feeding and extraction of single cartridges only while keeping the cartridges in the magazine in reserve, and a cylindrical bolt. When the Ottoman Army learned about the new Spanish model of 1893, it ordered some 200,000 rifles in the same configuration. An Ottoman Mauser 1893, captured during the World War I and exposed in the Auckland Museum.
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