The original 1898 pattern military ball ammunition was introduced in the Mauser Model 1889 and loaded with a round-nosed bullet fired at a muzzle velocity of with muzzle energy.
Following the lead of French and German army commands in developing the spitzer - a pointed-tip - bullet shape, later military ball ammunition was loaded with a spitzer bullet fired at a muzzle velocity of with muzzle energy from a long barrel became available.