Mannlicher M1895

Mannlicher M1895
Mannlicher M1895 Rifle. From the collections of the Swedish Army Museum.
Type	Straight pull bolt-action rifle
Place of origin	Austria-Hungary
Service history
In service	1895–1918 (Austria-Hungary) 1895–1949 (Other nations)
Used by	See Users
Wars	First 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
Designer	Ferdinand Mannlicher
Designed	1895
Manufacturer	1896–1918: Œ.W.G. in Steyr 1897–1918: F.G.GY. in Budapest 1918–1920: Zbrojovka Brno
Produced	1896–1920
No. built	approx. 3,500,000[4]
Variants	See Variants
Specifications (M95 Long Rifle)
Mass	3.78 kilograms (8.3 lb)
Length	1,272 millimetres (50.1 in)
Barrel length	765 millimetres (30.1 in)
Cartridge	M95: 8×50mmR Mannlicher M95/30 & 31.M: 8×56mmR M95/24 & M95M: 7.92×57mm Mauser
Action	Straight-pull bolt action
Rate of fire	approx. 20–25 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity	M93 (8×50mmR): 620 m/s (2,000 ft/s) M30 (8×56mmR): 720 m/s (2,400 ft/s)
Feed system	5-round internal box magazine, loaded with 5-round en bloc clips or (stripper clips in M95/24 and M95M variants)
Sights	Rear 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 a 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.