Rifles converted to 8x56mmR had a large "S" stamped on the barrel shank. Austrian conversions are referred to as the M95/30, and Hungarian conversions as the M95/31. It was the primary battle rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Landwehr and the Bulgarian Army during World War I, and continued to serve the postwar Austrian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian armies.ĭuring the latter half of the 1920s, Mannlicher developed a more powerful cartridge, the 8x56mmR, and Austria converted many existing rifles and carbines beginning in 1930, and Hungary followed suit in 1931. Bulgaria purchased many M95s, beginning in 1903. Over 3,000,000 rifles were produced, roughly 75% at Steyr.
("Arms and Machine Manufacturing Company") in Budapest from 1897 to 1918. The rifle was produced at Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft, Steyr, from 1896 to 1918, and Fegyver és Gépgyár Rt. Both rifle and carbine feature a single-piece stock with full-length handguard. The long rifle features a 30.1" barrel, and the carbine a 19" barrel. It features a straight-pull bolt-action feeding from single-column magazine fed by en-bloc 5-round clips. The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 is an Austro-Hungarian bolt-action rifle, developed and designed by Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher. A clear identifying feature of the Steyr M1895 rifle series is the stacking pin that protrudes forward on the left side of the rifle, originally used to stand rifles up against each other in the field - 8x56mmR Mannlicher
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