Restart at 1B and so on, and repeat each ordnance fiscal year. This was done in the Germanic method (start at 1A, go to 9999A, then On pre-1920 manufactured/assembled M95s, the barrel, receiver and Stock were numbered. (The barrel also carried the Acceptance mark, 'Wn Eagle date'.) In Austro-Hungarian ordnance practice, the BARREL was the serialized part, not the receiver. Would have been marked with old acceptance stamps. Occasional late war weapons are found with single marks, but these As a result, all "double" marked weapons will bear dates of 1916 or later. Weapons accepted after his death, during the reign of Emperor Karl I, were marked with either the double shield (Honvédség) or double eagles Weapons which were acceptance marked during the reign of Emporer Franz Josef, were marked with a Place when Emperor Franz Josef died on November 21, 1916. The difference between the single shield and the double shield is the change of Monarchy, which took Honvédség, the Hungarian equivalent of the of the Austrian Landwehr.Ī 'BpDate' signifies the same thing. The 'BpDate' signifies that a weapon was issued for the first time to the The last 2 digits of the year was used, exceptĪ few early years (901 as shown) when the last 3 digits were used. Rear leaf sight graduated 300-2600 schritt (225-1950m)īarrel shank marked with 'Bp' + St.Stephen's Crest + year of mfg. It withstood a so-called torture test of firing 50,000 rounds through a single rifle without lubrication of any kind.Īs shown on the picture on the left, M95 rifles also served during the bloody 3.5 month long 1919 Hungarian Communist Revolution. This rifle was the principal Austro-Hungarian rifle of WW1.
Opening the bolt and pressing the catch in the front edge of the trigger guard. Under the barrel-band, while the nose cap (which carried the stacking hook) had the bayonet lug on its underside. Sling swivels lay on the under-edge of the butt and The M1895 differed in several important respects from theĮarlier service rifles, for example, it had a full-length handguard and a leaf-pattern rear sight. In 1895 an improved infantry rifle was adopted, incorporating a straight-pull boltĪdapted directly from that of the M1890 Mannlicher Cavalry Carbine. Withstand the pressures generated by new high velocity cartridges. However, it wasĮqually clear that even the new 1888-pattern rifles were ineffectual compared with the latest European advances, and that their weak bar-locks could not Trials in 1892 failed to convince the Austro-Hungarian Army authorities that ultra-small calibers were effective enough to change from 8mm. Integral clip-loaded box magazine, 5 roundsħ65mm barrel, 4-groove rifling, RH, concentricīarrel threads: 27mm (1.062") major diameter, 12tpi, 19mm (.750") shank length Muzzle velocity 620 m/sec with M1893 ball cartridgeĪction: Straight-pull bolt action, with two lugs on a detachable bolt head engaging the receiver.
Von Mannlicher and also manufactured in large quantities by Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft, Steyr, 1896-1918).Ģ.5 million were made total, approx. (This rifle was designed by Ferdinand Ritter Mannlicher M95 Austro-Hungary Infantry Rifle and Carbine