[DL] Re: Bolt Guns

[Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com>]

Mauser Model 1871 was a single shot weapon but it did
have a bolt action. It was later reworked into a
magazine rifle with a tubular magazine.
The 'Mauser' M/1888 was the first 'modern' German box
magazine fed bolt action rifle. It is not really a
Mauser design, it was designed by a committee and is
famous as the only committee designed weapon that was
any good! Some were supplied to the UVF before the
Great War and ended up in Africa - still with the red
hand and 'For God and Ulster' on the stocks.
The 'classic' Mauser came in 1898.

I can't remember the dates for the French rifles but
there were in there early.

There were some bolt action around as early as the
'60s or even earlier but it needed the fixed cartridge
to make them practical.


Michael

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