


When the last round is fired, the clip drops free through a hole in the lower receiver. Typical of a Mannlicher design, these rifles are fed via an en-bloc clip as opposed to a stripper clip.Īn en-bloc clip holds the rounds within the clip and it is inserted into the rifle from the top in the same manner as a magazine. We like to think of them as the poor man’s Schmidt-Rubin. This gave the M95 a higher rate of fire (30 to 35 rounds per minute) than a traditional rotating bolt action rifle. The Mannlicher M1895 ( Infanterie Repetier-Gewehr M.95) was designed by von Mannlicher as an improvement upon his original straight-pull action from the earlier Mannlicher M1890 carbine. This article originally ran in November 2016. The Steyr M95 rifle was an updated version of the previous Mannlicher 1890 carbine.
