And it was actually quite hated in Bulgarian service in WWI because of the downward ejecting clip. It kept jamming with mud in the trentches. There was a filed modification for it , something like small leather bag to put benith it to catch the clip and act as barrier and privent mud from going into the chamber.
I have one of the. Mannlicher Steyr str8 pul rifles brought back from WW1 by my Dr on horse back grand dad. now over 100 yrs. old and works perfectly. The rifle fired fast enough to get the inside of the stock charcoaled from heat! Brilliant design!
Ive got a few long rifles and carbines. Even have some 88/90s. Made tons of videos on them. Even shot them all on the channel. 8x50r is hard to find haha
I found the Bajonett in my grandfathers Garage when i was Young ... Played with it 😂 25 years later i found out for what rifle it was Made. So i bought the right rifle for my Bajonett 😅. Greetings from Austria my gun-lover Friends 😊
Unrealible one, only the Canadian Ross rifle was worse than this one. The Lee Enfield SMLE had a realtively weak action (especially when comparing it to any Mauser) but was enough for the realtively weak .303 British (the .303 British is not weak, just weaker than the contemporary .30-06 and 8x57mm). Also it was realtively realible and the fastest action rifle of the time (I think it was no slower than a streight pull action). The other big bunch, the Mauser and Mauser "inspired" action rifles (yes, the famous US Springfield M1903 what I'm talking about, and somewhat the very good Enfield M1917) were stronger by a lightyear. The only streight pull action rifle with good reputation is the Swiss Schmidt-Rubin series, but those rifles never saw a real action ever. So I don't understand, why the Monarchy or even after the WWI Hungary sticked to this rifle instead of bying Mausers like several dozens of nations did (all South and Central America used Mausers, and the Middle East, the Far East, even the Japanese Arisaka rifles were basically Mauser derivatives).
I had one of these in the mid 90s, 8 x 56r carbine length with very heavy straight pull action. The recoil was very sharp, have fired old 303, 308 and 30-06 at that time ex military and this was worse. The straight pull was tight, sometimes it got stuck, the rifle I had was in absolute mint condition but the heavy trigger, the recoil and close range I was shooting ,i traded it on a Mossberg ATP8 12 gauge pump, even the 3” 12 g shells in the shotgun were not as bad as the M95. Did like the latter sight setup. One day will get an old Winchester lever and fit a reproduction ladder sight.
I own two of those things [I am a glutton for punishment]. The recoil impulse of these things makes them the most uncomfortable of all my mulsurps to shoot. My friends say the same thing. Maybe it is just me but if I have to sell any of my collection, they will be the first on the block.
I'll also point out that not all of the ww1 rifles where full length. I own an m95 that was originally a carbine and never chopped down. the best way to tell is that band under the post sight.
The steyr M88, M95, are fantastic rifles. The only problem is, there are no new made parts anywhere. Id like to see somebody make new stocks, and barrels. Springs. You can only go so far with 100 year old parts.
A decent gunsmith can make any of the spare parts. Plans are available - at least the one who needs, could get them, as the literature and everything is very widespread about these old firearms.
As a Hungarian, I have to tell you this rifle is anything but good. 1. 8x50mmR Mannlicher and 8x56mmR Mannlicher neither were a spectacular cartridge. The .30-06, 8x57mm Mauser, but even the rimmed .303 British and 7.62x54mmR Russian were simply better. 2. The action is way much weaker than a regular Mauser action. Also weaker than the Mosin-Nagant's or the MAS-36's action (I know the French one is a later design, but Hungary still used, and even updated this useless relic in the 1930s!!!). 3. The gun was quite "custom quality", and the bolt only matching the rifle what they were put together in the factory. If you mixed up bolts and rifles on the field, you would be in trouble, as the bolts did not matched and the rifles would become unreliable. Also sensitive to dirt on the battlefield. 4. The "magazine" sucks. Only the Italian Carcano series had this terrible design. You could not top it up until the whole magazine got empy. Also open underside, the dirt could get in very easily. Not a good design. This rifle was good in a range, maybe good for non-military units (prison guards, etc), but as a military service rifle it was not good at all. As a hunting rifle it also sucks, as the ammunition is one hand scarce, on the other hand it is weak (for its size and competition). A decent .30-06 or an 8x57mm far outclassing it. And they are also more widespread (.30-06 and 8x57mm are "evergreen" cartridges here in Hungary. If you are a hunter and run out of ammo, just go into a random gunshop and you will 99% to get ammo for your gun). I would never ever get this gun other than a wallhanger. Any Mauser would be a better hunting rifle if it get sporterized (of course, ruining a piece of firearms history is not a welcome thing).
A rifle with more cons than pros. The Swiss Kar31 was the best straight pull and the most labor intensive. The Steyr and its slightly better Canadian Ross progeny simply had too many bugs, many metallurgical and having to do with the heat treatment of the era. If redesigned with a three lug bolt which fits into a barrel extension, the weapon could have done more... But it had to wait 60 years to see that type of design on self-loading rifles. Straight pulls are problematic almost always where it seems their best iterations are pump and not bolt based. The Steyr M95 ended its service life as a rear echelon throwaway rifle, prone to jamming and rough extraction when it had serviceable clips. It was a design that should not have been fielded because it lacked robustness and reliability and the rounds for which it was chambered simply were too much for it and the infantry tasked to use them. The Steyr straight pulls are disappointing, lousy weapons. So too Mannlicher inspired Carcanos with the exception of those used by Imperial Japan. Steyr during this period showed it could produce a superior 98 Mauser and that's what it should have produced.
Loved the video, but as a steyroid i must say, the mispronouncing of some of the austrian words, namely mannlicher and steyr, irks my 'tism a little bit.
That rifle has a Bulgarian crest, not Austro-Hungarian. It was made under contract for Bulgaria. Very nice rifle, I love M95s and have a few.
And it was actually quite hated in Bulgarian service in WWI because of the downward ejecting clip. It kept jamming with mud in the trentches. There was a filed modification for it , something like small leather bag to put benith it to catch the clip and act as barrier and privent mud from going into the chamber.
I have one of the. Mannlicher Steyr str8 pul rifles brought back from WW1 by my Dr on horse back grand dad. now over 100 yrs. old and works perfectly. The rifle fired fast enough to get the inside of the stock charcoaled from heat! Brilliant design!
Beautiful, steyr is an underrated titan of firearms development and production
i bought mine for 100 dollars about 20 years ago at big 5, i wish i picked up up few more at that price. mine was in great shape once i cleaned it up.
Ive got a few long rifles and carbines. Even have some 88/90s. Made tons of videos on them. Even shot them all on the channel.
8x50r is hard to find haha
I found the Bajonett in my grandfathers Garage when i was Young ... Played with it 😂 25 years later i found out for what rifle it was Made. So i bought the right rifle for my Bajonett 😅.
Greetings from Austria my gun-lover Friends 😊
Beautiful rifle
The Mannlicher M95 is my favorite milsurp rifle. Very underrated gun and designer.
It's like that for a reason.
Unrealible one, only the Canadian Ross rifle was worse than this one. The Lee Enfield SMLE had a realtively weak action (especially when comparing it to any Mauser) but was enough for the realtively weak .303 British (the .303 British is not weak, just weaker than the contemporary .30-06 and 8x57mm). Also it was realtively realible and the fastest action rifle of the time (I think it was no slower than a streight pull action). The other big bunch, the Mauser and Mauser "inspired" action rifles (yes, the famous US Springfield M1903 what I'm talking about, and somewhat the very good Enfield M1917) were stronger by a lightyear. The only streight pull action rifle with good reputation is the Swiss Schmidt-Rubin series, but those rifles never saw a real action ever. So I don't understand, why the Monarchy or even after the WWI Hungary sticked to this rifle instead of bying Mausers like several dozens of nations did (all South and Central America used Mausers, and the Middle East, the Far East, even the Japanese Arisaka rifles were basically Mauser derivatives).
I had one of these in the mid 90s, 8 x 56r carbine length with very heavy straight pull action. The recoil was very sharp, have fired old 303, 308 and 30-06 at that time ex military and this was worse.
The straight pull was tight, sometimes it got stuck, the rifle I had was in absolute mint condition but the heavy trigger, the recoil and close range I was shooting ,i traded it on a Mossberg ATP8 12 gauge pump, even the 3” 12 g shells in the shotgun were not as bad as the M95.
Did like the latter sight setup. One day will get an old Winchester lever and fit a reproduction ladder sight.
I have one; I nicknamed it “The A$$ Kicker”. Love the rifle but the freaking recoil is brutal!
(Maybe I am just getting old-er) 😄😄😄😄😄
I own two of those things [I am a glutton for punishment]. The recoil impulse of these things makes them the most uncomfortable of all my mulsurps to shoot. My friends say the same thing. Maybe it is just me but if I have to sell any of my collection, they will be the first on the block.
My favorite part of my M95 is the markings on some of the ammo
I agree about the recoil. I've read stories in gun magazines where even the writer mentioned the recoil being a little sharp.
Recoil not too bad for me, as it is similar to my M44.
Another U'S' rifle used the en-bloc type clip was the Lee 6mm straight pull bolt action. That one didn't stay around for too long.
Great video 👍🏽
Wasn’t the original caliber 8X50?
I'll also point out that not all of the ww1 rifles where full length. I own an m95 that was originally a carbine and never chopped down. the best way to tell is that band under the post sight.
I have a brother of the m95 carbine that you have, also Bulgarian contract serial 2031B =)
Please make video on Winchester 1861 please
3:51 that's not an m95, it appears to be a dutch mannlicher. Very different action, still very cool.
What ammo does it fire and is it hard to find?
8x50mmR and its hard to find
Not to disappoint you but this is the Bulgarian crest! I have the longer version 😊
Much like the K-31s I find the straight pull rifles better designed over the Mauser, Mosin and Arisaka however that is just my observation.
The steyr M88, M95, are fantastic rifles. The only problem is, there are no new made parts anywhere. Id like to see somebody make new stocks, and barrels. Springs. You can only go so far with 100 year old parts.
A decent gunsmith can make any of the spare parts. Plans are available - at least the one who needs, could get them, as the literature and everything is very widespread about these old firearms.
I have one but never shot it. I did buy 100 rds with it but it is WW2
Wehrmacht marked ammo in boxes of ten.
As a Hungarian, I have to tell you this rifle is anything but good.
1. 8x50mmR Mannlicher and 8x56mmR Mannlicher neither were a spectacular cartridge. The .30-06, 8x57mm Mauser, but even the rimmed .303 British and 7.62x54mmR Russian were simply better.
2. The action is way much weaker than a regular Mauser action. Also weaker than the Mosin-Nagant's or the MAS-36's action (I know the French one is a later design, but Hungary still used, and even updated this useless relic in the 1930s!!!).
3. The gun was quite "custom quality", and the bolt only matching the rifle what they were put together in the factory. If you mixed up bolts and rifles on the field, you would be in trouble, as the bolts did not matched and the rifles would become unreliable. Also sensitive to dirt on the battlefield.
4. The "magazine" sucks. Only the Italian Carcano series had this terrible design. You could not top it up until the whole magazine got empy. Also open underside, the dirt could get in very easily. Not a good design.
This rifle was good in a range, maybe good for non-military units (prison guards, etc), but as a military service rifle it was not good at all. As a hunting rifle it also sucks, as the ammunition is one hand scarce, on the other hand it is weak (for its size and competition). A decent .30-06 or an 8x57mm far outclassing it. And they are also more widespread (.30-06 and 8x57mm are "evergreen" cartridges here in Hungary. If you are a hunter and run out of ammo, just go into a random gunshop and you will 99% to get ammo for your gun). I would never ever get this gun other than a wallhanger. Any Mauser would be a better hunting rifle if it get sporterized (of course, ruining a piece of firearms history is not a welcome thing).
When I got my Rpal (Canadian Firearms License) I bought my grandfathers Steyr M.95 for $2👌
A rifle with more cons than pros. The Swiss Kar31 was the best straight pull and the most labor intensive. The Steyr and its slightly better Canadian Ross progeny simply had too many bugs, many metallurgical and having to do with the heat treatment of the era. If redesigned with a three lug bolt which fits into a barrel extension, the weapon could have done more... But it had to wait 60 years to see that type of design on self-loading rifles. Straight pulls are problematic almost always where it seems their best iterations are pump and not bolt based. The Steyr M95 ended its service life as a rear echelon throwaway rifle, prone to jamming and rough extraction when it had serviceable clips. It was a design that should not have been fielded because it lacked robustness and reliability and the rounds for which it was chambered simply were too much for it and the infantry tasked to use them. The Steyr straight pulls are disappointing, lousy weapons. So too Mannlicher inspired Carcanos with the exception of those used by Imperial Japan. Steyr during this period showed it could produce a superior 98 Mauser and that's what it should have produced.
dude did you just say , AUSTRIO HUNGRARIAN empire
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Not yards or meters, old Austrian measurement which is about 2.5 feet. Streap
Loved the video, but as a steyroid i must say, the mispronouncing of some of the austrian words, namely mannlicher and steyr, irks my 'tism a little bit.
Kind of looks like a Mosin?
Mannlicher....