From an Austrian manual and examples of the guns. Note that it is considerably higher than the original schritten one.Īlso shown is the hood with the Austrian Eagle marking. In the Austrian government updated most of their rifles, stutzens and carbines.

He is carrying an M95 in 8X50 as Italy did not change the caliber of their guns.

Photo November in Eithiopia during invasion shows a Dubat a Somali tribesman member of an Italian Somailand border force of irregular guards being used as scouts, flank security to march columns, battlefield pursuit and clean-up. These M95's appear to be the rarest of the four manufactured. Other arms were also converted including the Carcano the MN91 and a couple of the Enfield models. Rifle stocks were shortened to accommodate the shorter barrel, although I have seen two with carbine stocks used. These short rifles had a 23 inch barrel, a Mauser tangent rear sight and a mauser front sight. They also altered the magazine to accept the German stripper clips. The Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia reworked the M95's and rebarreled them in 7. The final design was the Repetier Gerwehr M95which only had minor modifications, but is considered to be very strong. Later that year a new design was introduced to better handle the increased pressures of the round. In the enbloc Mannlicher magazine holding five rounds was added to the gun and it was designated the M Two years later,it was changed from the original 11mm to the 8X50R which was black powder charged. The first improvement was in with the addition of a clip fed magazine in which the clip was ejected from the top when empty.

The first design straight pull bolt was inthe M84, with gravity fed magazine, designed by Mannlicher. The Steyr Model is the result of several design changes. Mannlicher died in leaving behind a legacy that maybe only Browning can compete with. Many of the designs that are found on todays rifles we owe to Mannlicher. Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher was born in Austria and was a mechanical genius, giving to the world over different weapon designs.

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