#mannlicher
An Austrian soldier stands in a trench built along the Isonzo Valley, on the Italian front in 1916.
Original image source: Austrian National Library
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My Prized Possession – The Männlicher M95 is a straight pull bolt action rifle. This M95 carbine is a 1919 receiver that went into storage for several years and is chambered for the newer, more powerful, 8x56mm Rimmed S-Patrone. Although these rifles were retired by Austria-Hungary in 1918, they saw use through the end of WWII by small numbers of the Nazi Ordnungspolizei, and by partisans in Eastern Europe. -R
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