Add to Cart for Special Price.Īdditional charges for Non Free Shipping products, products shipping to remote locations, HazMat products, and large or heavy items still apply. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies. You can learn more about the cookies we use and why we use them by viewing our Privacy Policy. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Paces be gone! We need meters dammit! When we picked up a Steyr M95 for the first time, there was a note on the side about how the rifle was hitting two feet high at yards.Eligible for. Old action, new shorter barrel and a more powerful smokeless round, why would you not change the sights? Now they were fielding something shorter and more powerful. There was one other thing they did which makes us think that Hans and Klaus were very much asleep at the switch. Keep in mind that they did two things, they made a more powerful round while shortening the barrel. The loading of the 8x56R round was similar but used a grain conical or Spitzer bullet. So when the M95 came out, they used true smokeless powder in the loading and achieved fps with a grain round nosed bullet.Ī couple of years later Austria and Hungary re-chambered the lions share of their rifles in the same cartridge as used in the Steyr-Solothurn light machine gun MGq. Initially these rifles were chambered in 8X50mmR.
Although if you have a loaded or partially loaded M95, you can push a button on the receiver and send a perfectly full clip of ammunition sailing through the air if you feel the need.įielded in the First World War by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Bulgarian military bought large quantities of them beginning in After the war ended and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved, the rifle continued to see use by the armies of Austria and Hungary but also in many of the Balkan states where the rifle was given to these countries as part of war reparations. When the last round is fired, the clip drops free through a hole in the lower receiver.
Typical of a Mannlicher design, these rifles are fed via an en-bloc clip as opposed to a stripper clip.Īn en-bloc clip holds the rounds within the clip and it is inserted into the rifle from the top in the same manner as a magazine. This article originally ran in November This gave the M95 a higher rate of fire 30 to 35 rounds per minute than a traditional rotating bolt action rifle. The cavalry still charged on horseback in some corners of the globe while poison gas rained down on others. Military forces were armed with a hodgepodge of rifles, machine guns, swords, pikes, revolvers and semiautomatic pistols.
Ancient empires were struggling to remain relevant and vassal states that composed those empires were yearning for self rule. World War 1 represented a tumultuous time in world history.
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