The Geweer M. 95, also known to collectors as the Dutch Mannlicher, was the service rifle of the armed forces of the Netherlands between 1895 and 1940 which replaced the obsolete Beaumont-Vitali M1871/88.

With the Ferdinand Mannlicher designed trigger guard / magazine housing assembly, when the bolt is open and fully retracted to the rear the full en-bloc clip is loaded into the magazine from the top through the open receiver.

In the 1880s, two important developments took place that disrupted the current armament paradigm: the adoption of repeating (i.e. magazine) rifles, and the invention of smokeless gunpowder.

A further question was the inclusion of a magazine cut-off device, allowing the weapon to be used as a single-shot rifle, much like the Beaumont-Vitali M71/88 just adopted.

At the final moment however, the Nagant firm submitted a new and improved rifle, using a Mauser style stripper clip.

As ammunition for the German 1888 was finally acquired in December 1890, the weapon was subjected to trials, and subsequently removed from consideration: it was possible to cause a double-feed with the German 1888 rifle, resulting in the tip of the rear cartridge's bullet hitting the chambered cartridge's primer, with catastrophic results.

Although the commission initially focused on a calibre of 7.5 to 8 millimetres, a Schriever rifle with an Italian barrel chambered for 6.5 mm was also trialled.

[6] The rifle was the standard weapon of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) until the Japanese invasion.

[10][11] After the conclusion of the war, the remaining rifles were handed over by the KNIL to the new Indonesian Armed Forces.

Due to very close dimensional relationships, boxer-primed cartridge cases can be made by resizing and trimming .303 British[22] or .30-40 Krag (.30-40 US)[23] brass, and Fire forming the resulting altered brass cases in the 6.5x53R chamber.