The M1895 is unusual in employing a straight-pull bolt action, as opposed to the more common rotating bolt-handle of other rifles. Originally they were chambered for the round-nosed 8×50mmR cartridge, but almost all were rechambered to accept the more powerful spitzer 8×56mmR cartridge in the 1930s. The primary producers were the OEWG in Steyr, and FÉG in Budapest. It was nicknamed the Ruck-Zuck- by Austrian troops (ruck-zuck spoken as "roock-tsoock", in common language meaning "back and forth ") and "Ta-Pum" by Italian troops who wrote a song ( it) about it during World War I. 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. Rear V-notch flip-up sight and front post ( telescopic sight on sniper variant) From the collections of the Swedish Army Museum.ĥ-round en bloc clip ( stripper clip in M95/24 and M95M), internal box magazine
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