Mannlicher M1895

Mannlicher M1895
Mannlicher M1895 Rifle. From the collections of the Swedish Army Museum.
TypeStraight pull bolt-action rifle
Place of originAustria-Hungary
Service history
In service1895–1918 (Austria-Hungary)
1895–1949 (Other nations)
Used bySee Users
WarsFirst Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
First Balkan War
Second Balkan War
World War I
Russian Civil War[1]
Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia
Revolutions and interventions in Hungary
Polish-Soviet War
Austrian Civil War
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Spanish Civil War[2]
Sudeten German uprising
World War II
Greek Civil War[3]
1948 Arab–Israeli War[3]
1958 Lebanon crisis
Lebanese Civil War
Rhodesian Bush War
Production history
DesignerFerdinand Mannlicher
Designed1895
Manufacturer1896–1918: Œ.W.G. in Steyr
1897–1918: F.G.GY. in Budapest
1918–1920: Zbrojovka Brno
Produced1896–1920
No. builtapprox. 3,500,000[4]
VariantsSee Variants
Specifications (M95 Long Rifle)
MassRifle: 3.78 kg (8.3 lb)
Carbine: 3.4 kg (7.5 lb)
LengthRifle: 1,272 mm (50.1 in)
Carbine: 1,003 mm (39.5 in)
Barrel lengthRifle: 765 mm (30.1 in)
Carbine: 500 mm (19.7 in)

CartridgeM95: 8×50mmR Mannlicher
M95/30 & 31.M: 8×56mmR
M95/24 & M95M: 7.92×57mm Mauser
ActionStraight-pull bolt action
Rate of fireapprox. 20–25 rounds/min
Muzzle velocityM93 (8×50mmR): 620 m/s (2,000 ft/s)
M30 (8×56mmR): 720 m/s (2,400 ft/s)
Feed system5-round internal box magazine, loaded with 5-round en bloc clips or (stripper clips in M95/24 and M95M variants)
SightsRear V-notch flip-up sight and front post (telescopic sight on sniper variant)

The Mannlicher M1895 (German: Infanterie Repetier-Gewehr M.95, Hungarian: Gyalogsági Ismétlő Puska M95; "Infantry Repeating-Rifle M95") is an Austro-Hungarian straight pull bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action bolt, much like the Mannlicher M1890 carbine. It was nicknamed the Ruck-Zuck-[Gewehr] by Austrian troops (ruck-zuck spoken as "roock-tsoock", in common language meaning "back and forth [rifle]") and "Ta-Pum" by Italian troops who wrote a song (it) about it during World War I. The primary producers were the ŒWG in Steyr, and FÉG in Budapest.

Originally they were chambered for the round nosed 8×50mmR cartridge, but almost all of the rifles were rechambered to accept the more powerful and longer range spitzer 8×56mmR cartridge in the 1930s.

  1. ^ Scarlata, Paul (20 November 2014). "Russian rifles of the great war, revolution & civil war—part I". Shotgun News. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ^ "spanishcivilwar1". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Moschetto M95 carbine postwar". wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com. 20 May 2015.
  4. ^ John Walter (25 March 2006). Rifles of the World. Krause Publications. p. 265. ISBN 0-89689-241-7. Retrieved 9 September 2014.