An old engraving of a cross-section of the magazine and breech of a Mannlicher bolt-action, magazine rifle of the late 1800s. It is from a Victorian book of the 1890s on discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. German-born Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848–1904) developed bolt-action rifles, both military and sporting, in both turn-bolt and straight-pull actions. In 1886 he patented the ‘Mannlicher System’ of a breechblock on a bolt action, which was adopted as a service rifle by the Austro-Hungarian Army and several other armed forces.
An old engraving of a cross-section of the magazine and breech of a Mannlicher bolt-action, magazine rifle of the late 1800s. It is from a Victorian book of the 1890s on discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. German-born Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848–1904) developed bolt-action rifles, both military and sporting, in both turn-bolt and straight-pull actions. In 1886 he patented the ‘Mannlicher System’ of a breechblock on a bolt action, which was adopted as a service rifle by the Austro-Hungarian Army and several other armed forces. The model Mannlicher M1895 was widely used by the Austro-Hungarian Army up to World War I. Mannlicher also developed several innovative semi-automatic handgun designs in the last decade of the 19th century.
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Location: Germany
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