Kropatschek rifle

A Kropatschek
is any variant of a rifle designed by Alfred von Kropatschek. Kropatschek`s rifles used a tubular magazine (constructed of nickel-plated steel) of his design, of the same type used in the German Mauser Gewehr 1871/84 and the Japanese Type 22 Murata. While designed for black ...

Mannlicher M1886

The Repeating Rifle Model 1886
commonly known as Mannlicher Model 1886 was a late 19th-century Austrian straight-pull bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1886. It used a wedge-lock straight pull action bolt. It was the first straight-pull bolt-action service rifle of any nation.

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