11/13/2022 0 Comments Steyr m95 manufacture date![]() ![]() The Mannlicher magazine with an enbloc clip loading mechanism and an open bottom is a prominent feature of these, also found on French Lebels and Italian Carcanos. A 500 Schritt V-notch battle sight is available with the leaf in the horizontal position. The leaf is flipped up to the vertical position for these ranges. The rear sight is calibrated from 300 to 2400 Schritt, where a Schritt is 0.75 meters. ![]() Despite the exterior appearance with it's uniform brown patina, the bore has sharp and deep rifling. Since the bolt headspaces on the rim of the cartridge, simply having replaceable heads in three sizes, marked K, M (mine) and L for Kurz, Mittel und Lang (short, middle and long), was sufficient. The two-lug internally rotating straight-pull bolts were not serialized. #STEYR M95 MANUFACTURE DATE SERIAL NUMBER#The receiver, barrel and stock has the entire serial number and letter block, "3211C", whereas the handguard has only the last two numbers of the serial number ("11", seen just below the back of the rear sight), all of which are correct. Furthermore, it has no import mark and has a duffel cut (collectors term for stocks cut to fit in a duffel bag), virtually ensuring that this is a bringback, likely from WWI. What makes this rare, is that it is matching and was not converted from the original 8x50mmR chambering. The faint Wn-17 acceptance mark on the barrel indicates its WWI manufacture date. However, this is a rather rare M95 Repetierkarabiner mit Stutzenring made at ŒWG in Steyr Austria in 1917. They could be picked up for $89 at retail until about 2013 (from the extinct Southern Ohio Gun). They were imported in large numbers from Bulgaria in the 2000s, were generally mismatched, had electropenciled matching bolts (or not), with shellacked stocks usually having more then one serial number. The M95-30 Karabiner is very common, rechambered to 8x56mmR in the 1930s for Bulgaria and marked with a large "S" on the barrel for the Spitzer bullet cartridge that these now fired. But in their defense, they were made during the waning ages of the Hapsburg empire, mostly in time of war, and experienced hard use during WWI and beyond. They are neither as precisely made, nor renowned for exceptional accuracy, as the Swiss rifles. The straight-pull bolt system of the Swiss Schmidt-Rubin and K31 rifles are well known, the M1895 rifle and carbine are perhaps not as well known. ![]()
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