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Steyr Mannlicher M1895
The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 was an Austro-Hungarian bolt-action rifle, developed and designed by Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher. It featured a straight-pull bolt-action feeding from single-column magazine fed by en-bloc 5-round clips. The long rifle featured a 30.1" barrel, and the carbine a 19" barrel. Both rifle and carbine featured a single-piece stock with full-length handguard. It fired the 8x50mmR cartridge. The rifle was produced at Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft, Steyr, from 1896-1918, and Fegyver és Gépgyár Rt. ("Arms and Machine Manufacturing Company") in Budapest from 1897-1918. Over 3,000,000 rifles were produced, roughly 75% at Steyr. Bulgaria purchased many M95s, beginning in 1903. It was the primary battle rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Landwehr and the Bulgarian Army during World War I, and continued to serve the postwar Austrian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian armies.
During the latter half of the 1920s, Mannlicher developed a more powerful cartridge, the 8x56mmR and Austria converted many existing rifles and carbines beginning in 1930, and Hungary followed suit in 1931. Austrian conversions are referred to as M95/30, and Hungarian conversions as M95/31. Rifles converted to 8x56mmR had a large "S" stamped on the barrel shank. Many M95s were captured by Yugoslavia and Greece during World War I, and in 1924 both countries began converting these to 7.92x57mm Mauser. The modifications consisted of a new 23.5" 7.92x57mm barrel with Mauser-type tangent-leaf sights, and the magazine was modified to allow conventional loading with a stripper clip. Conversions were done at FN-Herstal and Waffenfabrik Steyr, and domestically in Yugoslavia. These rifles are referred to as M95/24 in Greek service and M95M in Yugoslavian service.
During World War II the M95 was issued to Nazi German police forces, and also saw action with many partisans in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Italy.
Specifications
(1895 – 1921)
- Type: Rifle
- Caliber: 8×50mmR Mannlicher
- Weight: 7.4 lbs (3.36 kg) (short rifle), 8.4 lbs (3.8 kg) (long rifle)
- Length: 39 in (100 cm) (short rifle), 50.1 in (127.2 cm) (long rifle)
- Barrel length: 19 in (48 cm) (short rifle), 30.1 in (76.5 cm) (long rifle)
- Capacity: 5 rounds
- Fire Modes: Bolt-Action
The Steyr Mannlicher M1895 can be seen in the following:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battleship Potemkin | Grigori Aleksandrov | Chief Officer Giliarovsky | 1925 | |
| And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) | Russian Cossacks | 1930 | ||
| Mountains on Fire | Austrian and Italian soldiers | 1931 | ||
| The Black Cat | Henry Armetta | The Sergeant | M95 carbine version | 1934 |
| Hungarian gendarmes | ||||
| Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (Ivan Nikulin - Russkiy Matros) | German soldiers | 1944 | ||
| The Great War (La grande guerra) | Austro-Hungarian soldiers | 1959 | ||
| Two Half-Times in Hell | Hungarian soldiers | Hungarian 31M | 1961 | |
| A Star Called Wormwood (Hvezda zvaná Pelynek) | Rudolf Deyl | Pvt. František Noha | M95 carbine version | 1964 |
| Radoslav Brzobohatý | Cpl. Vodicka | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jirí Sovák | Pvt. Červenka | M95 carbine version | ||
| Martin Ruzek | Pvt. Koval | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jan Tríska | Pvt. Lojzík | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jaroslav Mareš | Pvt. Werner | M95 carbine version | ||
| Josef Vetrovec | Pvt. Pelnár | M95 carbine version | ||
| Gustav Heverle | Pvt. Kolarík | M95 carbine version | ||
| Ladislav H. Struna | Soldier | M95 carbine version | ||
| Austro-Hungarian soldiers | ||||
| The Corporal and Others | Hungarian soldiers | 1965 | ||
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Georgi Georgiev-Getz | "Osmiyat" | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1969 |
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Anton Gorchev | Vlado | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1969 |
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Stoycho Mazgalov | Stamen | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1969 |
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Nikola Anastasov | "Chaplin" | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1969 |
| The Eighth (Osmiyat) | Bulgarian soldiers and resistance fighters | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1969 | |
| The Stolen Train (Otkradnatiyat vlak) | Bulgarian soldiers and resistance fighters | Bulgarian M96 Carbine | 1971 | |
| Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon) | Viktor Zhukov | Kolya Matveyev | Sporterized | 1972 |
| Hot Winter (Horká zima) | Hungarian deserters | M95 carbine version | 1973 | |
| The Day That Shook the World | Austro-Hungarian border guards and policemen | M95 carbine version | 1975 | |
| Cabbages and Kings | Anchurian soldiers | 1978 | ||
| The Secret of Steel City (Tajemství Ocelového mesta) | Soldiers and policemen in Steel City | M95 carbine version | 1979 | |
| Signum Laudis | Vlado Müller | Cpl. Hoferik | M95 carbine version | 1980 |
| Jirí Zahajský | LCpl. Lorisch | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jan Pohan | Pvt. Steiner | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jan Skopecek | Pvt. Reisch | M95 carbine version | ||
| Jirí Kodes | Pvt. Richter | M95 carbine version | ||
| Austro-Hungarian soldiers | ||||
| Night Riders (Nocní jazdci) | Radoslav Brzobohatý | Halva | 1981 | |
| Leopold Haverl | Babušek | |||
| Petr Cepek | Janoušek | |||
| Pavel Zednícek | Fořt | |||
| Jirí Kodes | Jan Bílý | |||
| Jirí Krampol | Borovička | |||
| The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) | Boryslav Brondukov | Grichenko | 1983 | |
| The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) | Dmitry Kharatyan | Volodya Patrikeyev | 1983 | |
| Uprising | A Soviet border guard | M95 carbine version mocked as Mosin Nagant Model 1907 Carbine | 2001 | |
| Zelary | Jan Tríska | Old Gorcík | M95 carbine version | 2003 |
| Lake Placid 2 | Seen at the sheriff's office. Short rifle variant | 2007 | ||
| Guard No. 47 | Karel Roden | František Douša | 2008 | |
| Guard No. 47 | Austro-Hungarian soldiers | M95 carbine version | 2008 | |
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Borys Szyc | Jan Krynicki | M95 carbine version | 2011 |
| Battle of Warsaw 1920 | Polish soldiers | M95 carbine version | 2011 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bors | Various characters | 1968 | ||
| Once There Was a House (Byl jednou jeden dum) | Jirí Sovák | Matěj Budák | M95 carbine version; "Bio Ilusion" (S1E2), "Obvaziste Boccaccio" (S1E5) | 1974 |
| Once There Was a House (Byl jednou jeden dum) | Vladimír Mensík | Eduard Drvota | M95 carbine version; "Bio Ilusion" (S1E2) | 1974 |
| Hearts of Three (Serdtsa tryokh) | Gediminas Girdvainis | Mariano Vercara | Sporterized | 1992 |
| 14 - Diaries of the Great War | Austrian soldiers | 2014 |
Hembrug M95
In 1895, the Royal Netherlands Army adopted a variant of the Mannlicher M.1893 produced for Romania, which was in-turn developed from the German Gewehr 88. This was a conventional turn-bolt action feeding from a Mannlicher 5-round magazine loaded with en-bloc clips, chambered in 6.5x53mmR. It featured a 28.5" barrel, one-piece stock and half-length handguard.
Two carbine variants were produced, No.1 and No.3 (see discussion page). Initial production was at Waffenfabrik Steyr beginning in 1895, however in 1904 licensed production began at Hembrug Zaandam in the Netherlands; roughly 470,000 rifles were produced. It served the Dutch Army for 47 years, due to the lack of funds to replace it.
The Hembrug M95 can be seen in the following:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Amsterdam | Dutch soldiers and resistance fighters | rifle version | 1959 | |
| Soldier of Orange | Derek de Lint | Alex | rifle version | 1977 |
| Soldier of Orange | Huib Rooymans | Jan Weinberg | No.1 carbine version | 1977 |
| Soldier of Orange | Dutch soldiers | No.1 & No.3 carbine versions plus rifle version | 1977 |
FEG 35M
FEG 35M is a Hungarian rifle based on Mannlicher system. It is chambered in 8x56R. The rifle was designed and manufactured by FÉG weapon factory from 1935 until 1950s.
The FEG 35M and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) | Vladimir Kolokoltsev | Volodya Kozachenko | 1959 | |
| The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) | Yuri Timoshenko | Grichenko | 1959 | |
| The Corporal and Others | German soldiers | 1965 | ||
| Cabbages and Kings | Anchurian soldiers | 1978 | ||
| The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) | Dmitry Kharatyan | Volodya Patrikeyev | 1983 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hearts of Three (Serdtsa tryokh) | Vladimir Shevelkov | Francis Morgan | 1992 | |
| Hearts of Three (Serdtsa tryokh) | Solano brothers, gendarmes, brigands | 1992 |
See Also
- Steyr Mannlicher - A list of all firearms manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher.