I stumbled upon one of these at a gun auction about 13 years ago. It was novel and I ended up buying it. No one knew what it was (including me), but I bid and bought it. Unfortunately I lost it in a divorce. No clue where it is now
Could be that they have one in their advanced collection, but just have no where to display it. I interned at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Springfield, MA (where they made the 1903 and M1 Garand), and a lot of unique things that definitely deserve a spot on display are in the archives simply because they don’t have enough space.
I find that stock fairly interesting. It looks to my eye to be quarter-sawn Carpathian Elm, which is exactly the same wood as is very commonly found on Yugoslavian rifles made after WWII. This is the wood that so many people thought was teak when these guns were imported, but Yugoslavia had precisely 0 supplies of native teak and it would make absolutely no sense to import expensive woods for military rifles. The whole reason they used Carpathian Elm (and sometimes beech, birch and even oak) was the shortage of usable walnut after WWII, which affected stock material choices across the world (beech stocked M1s for example).
Two points: The Shorty is rather lighter and we had a frontline right through the Alps to defend. In the mountains weight and manouverability are important. Precision does not really suffer. A "Schritt" (step) is 70 Centimeters or call it 28". It is easier to determine a distance by walking than measuring.
Makes sense. You couldn't reliably hit individual targets at more than 600 meters, so no point in the scope going further. But WW1 used massed infantry tactics, so you might want to be able to fire at a massive blob of incoming army at over 1000 meters, not aiming at individuals, but aiming at the group.
Just recently got my hands on one of these (regular carbine, not sniper variant). Snagged it for 200 bucks, in near perfect condition! Gun dealers didn’t know what it was, so they threw out a random number which ended up being criminally low. Pretty good find for my first rifle!
Perhaps multilingual, but not so much multicultural You would be suprised to see how close the Czech culture is to German for example Besides our biggest connection was definetly Catholicism, be it Roman or Eastern, which made up the majority of our Empire And religion matters more than some petty pollitics or some stupid nationalism
Spörde Spyrdenstein Multicultural and multilingual empires are perfectly workable if you can make the component cultures work _together_ instead of at cross purposes with each other. For example, the Holy Roman Empire encompassed all the cultures that Austria-Hungary did and more, and was stronger for it--it took Napoleon tearing it a new one militarily to make it collapse. The more immediate cause of Austria-Hungary's collapse was the fact that its people began to realize the Empire's increasing obsolescence as a nation-state. When the Habsburg monarchy withdrew, the Empire's fate was sealed.
Austria-Hungary didn't fail because of multiculturalism, as all the "different" cultures were very similar, and meshed very well. The main source of the Empire's problems was Hungary's irrational political elite which was constantly cought between blackmailing the Empire for more cash, and shutting down funding for important government functions (most often the military), and the realisation that without the Empire, their own country would instantly fall apart. As it did in the end, when the Empire fell and there was no one left to defend Hungary's overextended borders.
I haven't been on here as much due to recovering from a surgery, but I realized I wasn't seeing any new videos in my feed. I come to this channel to see I had somehow been unsubscribed. From Hickock45 too. I'm not paranoid, but that's weird.
World Traveler There is an M95 carbine at my local shop that is tempting me. It looks to be in great shape. Probably overpriced, but maybe I can bargain. It would be my first milsurp.
Much as Frank Barnes taught us about cartridges, Professor Ian is teaching us about firearms. He is a direct analog of Mr. Barnes, in a digital format. Ian, your success at this is well-earned and sustained by your commitment to your passion. Thank you, sir.
To determine the manufacturer when the marking obscured is to look for K or R code on the receiver and parts. K indicates a Steyr produced gun, R indicates and FEG Budapest produced rifle.
06:55 Erzeugungs Abteilung -> *Urt-soy-gunk-s up-tile-ung* (Normally you´d write Erzeugungsabteilung as one single word. No idea why they opted to divide it into 2 words...) edit: My translation is "production department" by the way, since "erzeugen" means "to produce" and an "Abteilung" is a department. I´m no professional translator though...
Years ago my Dad and I got a pair of M95 carbines from a magazine for $60/ea. Both Steyr but with different measurement types (metric, vs, imperial, vs ??) on the sights. It was supposedly WWII surplus issued to Austrian non-infantry army soldiers (artillery crews, drivers, etc????). The pull back bolt is trippy and the rimmed round was available over the counter at local stores!
M95 rifles were used in Italy after Great War to some extent. Socieste [sp?] Metallurigica Italiana (SMI) produced the 8x50Austrian round. Rifles were sold to fisherman by Italian government to deal with sharks, etc. Supposedly this stopped when Mussolini imposed strict gun laws. There are pictures of Italian troops carrying the M95.
I can see that, and I can also tell that you're either hispanic or assume that spanish and italian are _that_ similar. It's fine, really. -I also just noticed another misspelling in your post, metalworks is "Metallurgica"-
Grew up with Italians, Cubans and Mexican. Combined with English, we had a weird 'lingua franca' with phrases such 'el car' to reference an automobile. Also, I was too lazy when I posted comment to pull my cartridge reference book to copy spelling.
It would be interesting to see how accurate these were compared to the long rifle version. I've seen a number of people experiencing higher precision with shorter barrels and it makes sense that a shorter barrel is more rigid.
Prob designed for scout snipers, smaller package to conceal and find a tidy spot, also trench warfare makes sense to have a easily moveable gun so it doesn't stick out, awesome piece of history here
I have an 1886 mannlicher its the same rifle pretty much except firing 11 mm black powder cartridges it was nade obsolete as soon as smokeless powder became available just 2 years later.
Ian is going to place a bid on this one. It is an antique mysterious gun with a lot of mismatch serial numbers and probably went through a lot of places. It might have a beautiful history to tell.
4:49 The way you say Wien is funny because you actually made it sound like a dialect version of Vienna (We-an), the correct way to pronounce it in german would sound like something along the lines of "wheen" (when with a long e)
These old school snipers rifle the best looking rifles. I own 2 PU snipers (yes original) and the look is just awesome. Look to own an Carcano converted.
Ian, during the Yugoslavian Civil War in the mid 1990s I saw what was clearly a M95 straight pull type rifle with scope in news footage. Did the Yugoslavs make their own homegrown version based on the M95M service rifle? Interesting to say the least.
I absolutely love your videos, however i am very often disappointed that we rarely ever see any of the firearms in your videos in action. I understand that they can't always be fired due to historical value or possibly damaging the piece, but a lot of the weapons on here could be fired I'm sure. I'm not knocking the channel, it's probably the most informative channel there is. I'm just always a bit let down when you bring out something really cool and it just stays on the table.
Dude i'm pretty sure he is the first one to ask if he can fire the guns he cover, remember that most of them are not his and are being sold in auction houses or held in museums, I'm.actually impressed by the number of rare and extremely valuable guns he is able to fire and by the way take into consideration that many guns that he covers are so rare and old that it's basically impossible to get ammo for them, look at the MAS submachinegun that he actually bought but wasn't able to fire due to no compatible ammunition
Kind of makes me sad that I butchered one of those little rifles to make an experimental .444 marlin straight pull rifle back in '91 when you could get the rifles for around 45 bucks each. Made a wonderful little straight pull deer woods rifle, worked great. I took a nice White Tail Buck with her, then let her go at a gun show when another dealer just "HAD TO HAVE IT!" and made me an offer I could not refuse. I saw the gun at many other gun shows as other dealers purchased her, jumped the price up a few hundred bucks and resold her. Sort of made me sad that I ever let her out of my hands. The rifle itself was in near new condition when I put a wrench on her action to remove the action and replace the barrel with the .444 barrel, my intention was to build a 45-70 but the action was not long enough for it, when my buddy, who was a full fledged gunsmith suggested the .444 Marlin, which is a great deer cartridge in it's own right, and we went from there. He did all the heavy lifting with the turning of the barrel and chambering, I put the money into the reamer and of course the barrel blank and such. I had two clips, so we put a stop to catch the clip so you could reload and reset her. Worked great, and with that hot little .44 bullet it only required one hit to stop a deer. I put modern front and rear open sights on the rifle and she shot extremely well, fairly accurate and a blast to shoot.
Oh it was surely not a sniper rifle, but if I recall it was a carbine length because I reused the stock with a slightly shorter barrel and put a steel cap on the end making a nice full length stock on the little darling.
Thompson Jerry I wondered the same thing. Since the 2 cartridges would have different trajectories out to 600 yds, seems like you would want to indicate which cartridge the scope adjustment is calibrated for. “S” being the designation of 8x56...
In my country we use largest scope that could be attached into very very underpowered air rifle. Sniper carbine real smoke less gunpowder rifle is makes alot of sense
Did those early QD mounts retain any kind of zero? I recognize its probably a 3-5 MOA rifle but would they have to reestablish zero before going into the field and if they did how would they do that under battlefield conditions if they had to re-zero?
I have a couple of M-95 Steyers. One Rifle and one Carbine. I also have a Kahles ($10.00 flea market) scope. That is likely as close as I'll get to a sniper. Both of mine were rechambered for 8x 56R. I enjoy them because of their uniqueness. Thank You for the information. Have you ever fired one?
04:49 *Pronunciation:* Wien -> veen or vene or the "vine" part in the word "ravine". (The letter combination "ie" in Germanic languages produces a longer "i" sound. Note though, that the english language changed their use of the letter "i" during "the great vowel shift". Nowadays an english speaker would write something like "ee" or "ea" to produce what everyone else still writes as a simple "i".)
Neurofunke somewhere you lost the plot... I am a German native speaker and in my post i explained to NON-native speakers the German pronunciation and provided a little background as to the reasons for the differences. "If you know German"? I suspect you either did not read, or did not understand what i wrote above... Also: Thanks for confusing non-native speakers with unhelpful exceptions to the rule.
The 8x50mmR is stillmade by the IOF ( Indian Ordenance Factory ) for sporting use. Old 303 Enfields were rebored and chambered to 315 or 8mm-50 Rimmed. It is a singularly useless hunting round and does not have enough power nor penetration.
nevermind, i found it: schritte. german for "step" which is why so many other people say "paces". Not linked to the yiddish "schwitzen" which i thought might be a derivative of schlep, but it turns out is completely wrong. so while schlepping your firearm 1000 schritte might cause some schwitzen in your armpitzen, sweat equity is not a measure of distance in a battle. #TheMoreYouKnow!
Very nice rifle! Such a good piece of history. Am looking for a rear band for my Steyr M95 carbine, do you know anywhere to find one? Looking at yours tells me what the rear band supposed to look like though. Thanks!
So was it a original 8x50 or a 8x56r was never said in the video, I thought you said in the video you were going to cartridge check the weapon?? Guessing it is a 8x50 because how you Mentioned that the barrel was not changed.
Erzeugungs Abteilung unpronouncible? heck u have to see a lot more german words my dear padawan ^^ der is sthg called "Rassengittersteinverlgemaschine", have fun speaking that one out loud :DDDD Erzeugungsabteilung btw i think is translateable to "production department"
That Rifle is really rare, i was in die military museum in Vienna Austria 2 weeks ago and didn't see one single M95 with a scope.
I stumbled upon one of these at a gun auction about 13 years ago. It was novel and I ended up buying it. No one knew what it was (including me), but I bid and bought it. Unfortunately I lost it in a divorce. No clue where it is now
@@TheDarthSoldier How much have you paid for it?
@@TheDarthSoldier sad
Could be that they have one in their advanced collection, but just have no where to display it. I interned at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Springfield, MA (where they made the 1903 and M1 Garand), and a lot of unique things that definitely deserve a spot on display are in the archives simply because they don’t have enough space.
Steyr Carbine = Cool. Stery SNIPER carbine = ultra cool!
"Sniper carbine," two words you don't normally hear together, like "guided shrapnel."
Or like an anti-aircraft pistol
@@magyarharcos71 .500 S&W be like:
@Send Nukes mind blown
"handheld artillery piece"
"Sniper Carbine" "There's not a lot of these things around and we will go in to why"
No I think I know why Ian
The highlight of any sniper or marksman rifle video is when there’s a down the scope shot with those juicy historic crosshairs.
This crosshairs are still common on hunting rifles in Austria and Germany
And since most of russian hunters have a WWII boner, lots of russian-made scopes also have the German Post reticle, such as Pilad 4x32 or PU repilcas
I find that stock fairly interesting. It looks to my eye to be quarter-sawn Carpathian Elm, which is exactly the same wood as is very commonly found on Yugoslavian rifles made after WWII. This is the wood that so many people thought was teak when these guns were imported, but Yugoslavia had precisely 0 supplies of native teak and it would make absolutely no sense to import expensive woods for military rifles. The whole reason they used Carpathian Elm (and sometimes beech, birch and even oak) was the shortage of usable walnut after WWII, which affected stock material choices across the world (beech stocked M1s for example).
I also have an M95 carbine in my care, made post WW1 and stocked in the same Elm.
My sight unseen Garand came with a Beech stock, "UhG!" I swapped it out for a used WWII American Walnut, Hoo-rah!
Two points: The Shorty is rather lighter and we had a frontline right through the Alps to defend. In the mountains weight and manouverability are important. Precision does not really suffer.
A "Schritt" (step) is 70 Centimeters or call it 28". It is easier to determine a distance by walking than measuring.
Iron sights go out to 2400 Schritt.
Sniper scopes only go to 600 meters.
#just1910sThings
Makes sense
Makes sense. You couldn't reliably hit individual targets at more than 600 meters, so no point in the scope going further. But WW1 used massed infantry tactics, so you might want to be able to fire at a massive blob of incoming army at over 1000 meters, not aiming at individuals, but aiming at the group.
I like how the scope's range is shorter than the iron sight's.
Precision > distance
Ken Chaipatr if you fire at such distance in volleys, the difference between scope and ironsight is irrelevant I guess
Nice, my Grandfather gave me an m95/31 conversion that he bought forever ago at a show. I always enjoy learning more about these!
Mannlicher rifles are my absolute favorite milsurps. I hope to have a collection of them some day. Excellent video.
I'm a little bit late(only one year) but I bought one for 5000 HUF roughly $16. It's a little bit beaten down but I can repair it hopefully.
The_Loyal_ Monarchist how so cheap?
@@marcelgaillard7559 f*cked up condition. Now i have 3 of them... 2 short and 1 long
Just bought an 1895 carbine, not a sniper tho
Just recently got my hands on one of these (regular carbine, not sniper variant). Snagged it for 200 bucks, in near perfect condition! Gun dealers didn’t know what it was, so they threw out a random number which ended up being criminally low. Pretty good find for my first rifle!
Awww, well isn't that just the cutest little sniper I've ever seen
TheGoldenCaulk so, baby got boom?
cute and deadly
Really gorgeous scope with the brass detailing.
What!?! No cycling of the action? :O I was looking forward to the straight pull of this cute little carbine.
He has videos on the vanilla rifle. You can see the action there.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 I can't find an m95 vid. Link?
WWI Sniper rifle? This gonna be good!
Austria-Hungary.
Now that’s quite forgotten.
What???
Forgotten by whom, exactly?
You from malaysia or eritrea or the moon or something?
Perhaps multilingual, but not so much multicultural
You would be suprised to see how close the Czech culture is to German for example
Besides our biggest connection was definetly Catholicism, be it Roman or Eastern, which made up the majority of our Empire
And religion matters more than some petty pollitics or some stupid nationalism
Spörde Spyrdenstein the Romans called, they think you should revise your theory.
Spörde Spyrdenstein Multicultural and multilingual empires are perfectly workable if you can make the component cultures work _together_ instead of at cross purposes with each other. For example, the Holy Roman Empire encompassed all the cultures that Austria-Hungary did and more, and was stronger for it--it took Napoleon tearing it a new one militarily to make it collapse. The more immediate cause of Austria-Hungary's collapse was the fact that its people began to realize the Empire's increasing obsolescence as a nation-state. When the Habsburg monarchy withdrew, the Empire's fate was sealed.
Austria-Hungary didn't fail because of multiculturalism, as all the "different" cultures were very similar, and meshed very well. The main source of the Empire's problems was Hungary's irrational political elite which was constantly cought between blackmailing the Empire for more cash, and shutting down funding for important government functions (most often the military), and the realisation that without the Empire, their own country would instantly fall apart. As it did in the end, when the Empire fell and there was no one left to defend Hungary's overextended borders.
The extreme range of the iron sights was used for VOLLEY fire .
Nice. I learned how to hunt with that rifle :)
Oh boy, the memories are kicking in!
A follower and admirers of your work aws from Iraq Baghdad
awes Awes s how is Baghdad there days . I haven't heard anything about the city sense the USA involvement in the iraq war?
Life is normal with many weapons and different types of weapons
s soubdsso sounds fun might need to have a visit
I haven't been on here as much due to recovering from a surgery, but I realized I wasn't seeing any new videos in my feed. I come to this channel to see I had somehow been unsubscribed. From Hickock45 too. I'm not paranoid, but that's weird.
It´s not being paranoid, If something is going on.
One of the best looking Rifle i have ever seen
This is just Too Cool!! Seeing how I have just bought a Styer M95 carbine!
World Traveler There is an M95 carbine at my local shop that is tempting me. It looks to be in great shape. Probably overpriced, but maybe I can bargain. It would be my first milsurp.
con6lex I paid 350 for mine with a bayonet and 15 rounds
Mannlichers are so dope, I hope to acquire one some day. These Stutzens are pretty nice, and the scopes are interesting.
One of my favorite guns.
It's funny how the iron sights can be adjusted for distances up to 3 times larger than the magnified long range optic
Like how AK irons can be ranged for 1,000m? laughable.
_ VesBraun not really, back in those times the military thinking was long range volley fire using hundreds of these.
Reticle is called "German nr 1" ,still made today and excellent reticle.
Much as Frank Barnes taught us about cartridges, Professor Ian is teaching us about firearms. He is a direct analog of Mr. Barnes, in a digital format. Ian, your success at this is well-earned and sustained by your commitment to your passion. Thank you, sir.
Actually a brilliant setup for it's intended use.
Would the reason to manufacture sniper carbines be the extensive mountain warfare Austro-Hungary was involved in?
It would certainly make more sense than the usual long rifle.
Probably
The Italian Alpini also used sniper carbines in WW1.
To determine the manufacturer when the marking obscured is to look for K or R code on the receiver and parts. K indicates a Steyr produced gun, R indicates and FEG Budapest produced rifle.
06:55 Erzeugungs Abteilung -> *Urt-soy-gunk-s up-tile-ung*
(Normally you´d write Erzeugungsabteilung as one single word. No idea why they opted to divide it into 2 words...)
edit: My translation is "production department" by the way, since "erzeugen" means "to produce" and an "Abteilung" is a department. I´m no professional translator though...
I have a M95 Carbine, I couldn’t picture one of these shoulder thumpers being used as a sniper weapon.
Years ago my Dad and I got a pair of M95 carbines from a magazine for $60/ea. Both Steyr but with different measurement types (metric, vs, imperial, vs ??) on the sights. It was supposedly WWII surplus issued to Austrian non-infantry army soldiers (artillery crews, drivers, etc????). The pull back bolt is trippy and the rimmed round was available over the counter at local stores!
Finally you get around to the cartridge which is always a mystery for these m 95s.
M95 rifles were used in Italy after Great War to some extent. Socieste [sp?] Metallurigica Italiana (SMI) produced the 8x50Austrian round. Rifles were sold to fisherman by Italian government to deal with sharks, etc. Supposedly this stopped when Mussolini imposed strict gun laws. There are pictures of Italian troops carrying the M95.
You mean Società then.
pardona me, mi Italiano e povero
I can see that, and I can also tell that you're either hispanic or assume that spanish and italian are _that_ similar.
It's fine, really.
-I also just noticed another misspelling in your post, metalworks is "Metallurgica"-
Grew up with Italians, Cubans and Mexican. Combined with English, we had a weird 'lingua franca' with phrases such 'el car' to reference an automobile. Also, I was too lazy when I posted comment to pull my cartridge reference book to copy spelling.
It would be interesting to see how accurate these were compared to the long rifle version. I've seen a number of people experiencing higher precision with shorter barrels and it makes sense that a shorter barrel is more rigid.
I don't know what Italy did with its M95 snipers but most the ordinary rifles were used to arm colonial troops in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
more austro-hungarian stuff!
or Austrian
Prob designed for scout snipers, smaller package to conceal and find a tidy spot, also trench warfare makes sense to have a easily moveable gun so it doesn't stick out, awesome piece of history here
I have an 1886 mannlicher its the same rifle pretty much except firing 11 mm black powder cartridges it was nade obsolete as soon as smokeless powder became available just 2 years later.
Ian is going to place a bid on this one. It is an antique mysterious gun with a lot of mismatch serial numbers and probably went through a lot of places. It might have a beautiful history to tell.
Joao Liduario Yes, and it will give him time to practice with it before next year's Hard As Hell match!
I like it! Would love to have it! Short like it is, light, and the right cartridge without a lot of recoil. Making my mouth water!
Slick carbine, looks like it would handle well. Thanks Ian :)
Wasn’t the steyr m95 and it’s early predecessors were the first rifles to introduce the En Bloc clip?
As far as I'm concerned (and correct me if I'm wrong) the en bloc clip was invented by Mannlicher
Andrew Dalton Ray Predecessor*
The M1885, not 1886 was the first to employ it
Yep
Awesome video!!
nice video! Greetings from Austria!
I had a WW2 veteran who had a friend who had a Stery sniper that he captured on Guadalcanal. Unfortunately the scope was long lost.
I could see a use of a short Sniper rifle in a trench or other areas where a long barrel rifle would be awkward.
4:49 The way you say Wien is funny because you actually made it sound like a dialect version of Vienna (We-an), the correct way to pronounce it in german would sound like something along the lines of "wheen" (when with a long e)
100 years gun and its look nearly as new....they sure made thing alot different in the old days
Wirklich ein tolles Gewehr!
Very informative stuff. This helped me greatly with research for my first video!
Holly crap I have one of these I thought some hunter cut the barrel and stick of it after the war but mines actually a carbine
These old school snipers rifle the best looking rifles. I own 2 PU snipers (yes original) and the look is just awesome. Look to own an Carcano converted.
Ian, during the Yugoslavian Civil War in the mid 1990s I saw what was clearly a M95 straight pull type rifle with scope in news footage. Did the Yugoslavs make their own homegrown version based on the M95M service rifle? Interesting to say the least.
I absolutely love your videos, however i am very often disappointed that we rarely ever see any of the firearms in your videos in action. I understand that they can't always be fired due to historical value or possibly damaging the piece, but a lot of the weapons on here could be fired I'm sure. I'm not knocking the channel, it's probably the most informative channel there is. I'm just always a bit let down when you bring out something really cool and it just stays on the table.
Dude i'm pretty sure he is the first one to ask if he can fire the guns he cover, remember that most of them are not his and are being sold in auction houses or held in museums, I'm.actually impressed by the number of rare and extremely valuable guns he is able to fire and by the way take into consideration that many guns that he covers are so rare and old that it's basically impossible to get ammo for them, look at the MAS submachinegun that he actually bought but wasn't able to fire due to no compatible ammunition
Kind of makes me sad that I butchered one of those little rifles to make an experimental .444 marlin straight pull rifle back in '91 when you could get the rifles for around 45 bucks each. Made a wonderful little straight pull deer woods rifle, worked great. I took a nice White Tail Buck with her, then let her go at a gun show when another dealer just "HAD TO HAVE IT!" and made me an offer I could not refuse. I saw the gun at many other gun shows as other dealers purchased her, jumped the price up a few hundred bucks and resold her. Sort of made me sad that I ever let her out of my hands. The rifle itself was in near new condition when I put a wrench on her action to remove the action and replace the barrel with the .444 barrel, my intention was to build a 45-70 but the action was not long enough for it, when my buddy, who was a full fledged gunsmith suggested the .444 Marlin, which is a great deer cartridge in it's own right, and we went from there. He did all the heavy lifting with the turning of the barrel and chambering, I put the money into the reamer and of course the barrel blank and such. I had two clips, so we put a stop to catch the clip so you could reload and reset her. Worked great, and with that hot little .44 bullet it only required one hit to stop a deer. I put modern front and rear open sights on the rifle and she shot extremely well, fairly accurate and a blast to shoot.
Oh it was surely not a sniper rifle, but if I recall it was a carbine length because I reused the stock with a slightly shorter barrel and put a steel cap on the end making a nice full length stock on the little darling.
Chambering it in 444 Marlin was adventure enough. It is a very underrated (and almost extinct) cartridge.
You should have held onto it.
I bought an m95 off of a guy cheap because he did t know it was a straight pull bolt and he said it was froze up lol
5:05 when the company is sus...
Bruh
I used to own one of these and 3 rounds on a rainy day caused a small mudslide downrange
My grandpa passed one down to me, decent condition but doesnt have a scope
Looks pretty cool.
Fun fact, the locking mechanism on the scope is almost identical to the magazine springs.
I saw in the Rainer Regiment Army Museum in Salzburg its bigger brother just a couple weeks ago.
Very Nice rifle Ian, could you make a video of you showing yourself working the bolt with or without the "en-bloc / packet" . cheers
FW squad represent.
Thanks Ian.
Could the S not indicate an 8 by 56 scope?
Thompson Jerry I wondered the same thing. Since the 2 cartridges would have different trajectories out to 600 yds, seems like you would want to indicate which cartridge the scope adjustment is calibrated for. “S” being the designation of 8x56...
The offset scopes must have had some wicked parallax.
EDIT 06:51 : Air tzoigungs op tile ung elf.
EDIT 09:00 : Schritt = paces
In my country we use largest scope that could be attached into very very underpowered air rifle. Sniper carbine real smoke less gunpowder rifle is makes alot of sense
How are the scope bases attached? Maybe Italy gave them to Etheopia? How did Etheopia get all it's M95's? What power was the scope?
Did those early QD mounts retain any kind of zero? I recognize its probably a 3-5 MOA rifle but would they have to reestablish zero before going into the field and if they did how would they do that under battlefield conditions if they had to re-zero?
It seems pretty solidly mounted to the reciver assembly. I imagine it retained zero at the cost of being a bitch to zero again.
Question but in mine the top of chamber has a cut out ,do you know why?
Very interesting, thanks!
8:49: 1 Schritt ("step") = 0.87 yards/0.8 meters.
those Austro-Hungarians don't sound like they were known for their documentation
Very cool rifle.
Estimate Price: $3,500 - $5,500 I feel like that will climb.
I feel like ‘sniper’ and ‘carbine’ aren’t the best two words to go together
Why?
South african fal converted to fire 7.32/39. Accepts ak mags as well. Would love some info and video!
I have a couple of M-95 Steyers. One Rifle and one Carbine. I also have a Kahles ($10.00 flea market) scope. That is likely as close as I'll get to a sniper. Both of mine were rechambered for 8x 56R. I enjoy them because of their uniqueness. Thank You for the information. Have you ever fired one?
04:49 *Pronunciation:*
Wien -> veen or vene or the "vine" part in the word "ravine".
(The letter combination "ie" in Germanic languages produces a longer "i" sound.
Note though, that the english language changed their use of the letter "i" during "the great vowel shift".
Nowadays an english speaker would write something like "ee" or "ea" to produce what everyone else still writes as a simple "i".)
Neurofunke somewhere you lost the plot...
I am a German native speaker and in my post i explained to NON-native speakers the German pronunciation and provided a little background as to the reasons for the differences.
"If you know German"? I suspect you either did not read, or did not understand what i wrote above...
Also: Thanks for confusing non-native speakers with unhelpful exceptions to the rule.
11:00 "after world war two" one*
The 8x50mmR is stillmade by the IOF ( Indian Ordenance Factory ) for sporting use. Old 303 Enfields were rebored and chambered to 315 or 8mm-50 Rimmed. It is a singularly useless hunting round and does not have enough power nor penetration.
Nice rifle!
nice
how do you spell that unit of measure on those sights?
is it Schwit?
i tried to look it up, but its a little obscure for my google-fu
nevermind, i found it: schritte. german for "step" which is why so many other people say "paces".
Not linked to the yiddish "schwitzen" which i thought might be a derivative of schlep, but it turns out is completely wrong.
so while schlepping your firearm 1000 schritte might cause some schwitzen in your armpitzen, sweat equity is not a measure of distance in a battle.
#TheMoreYouKnow!
What are the odds of finding one of these scopes and mount ?
Nice to have informations etc But I prefer to see the results on a target....Action is better than talks...
Very nice rifle! Such a good piece of history. Am looking for a rear band for my Steyr M95 carbine, do you know anywhere to find one? Looking at yours tells me what the rear band supposed to look like though. Thanks!
Liberty Tree Collectors have some right now.
These things hurt to shoot.
Finally, a weapon that i actually have owned
So was it a original 8x50 or a 8x56r was never said in the video, I thought you said in the video you were going to cartridge check the weapon?? Guessing it is a 8x50 because how you Mentioned that the barrel was not changed.
I wonder how well that quick-detach scope mount holds zero.
Bad ass...i had one of these befor not the sniper..i never really felt it was a safe gun.
Do the m95 reparations to Italy have anything to do with that semiauto m95 conversion you found at the Beretta factory a few years back?
What is he unit of length for the sight? I cannot find it online anywhere, but have no idea how to spell it. It sounds like Schrit.
Erzeugungs Abteilung unpronouncible? heck u have to see a lot more german words my dear padawan ^^
der is sthg called "Rassengittersteinverlgemaschine", have fun speaking that one out loud :DDDD
Erzeugungsabteilung btw i think is translateable to "production department"
Could the letter "S" on the scope mount indicate that the scope was calibrated for the 8x56 spitzer round?
I got a m95 thats been sporterised. And it looks like it can be side mounted
Quick question,how easy is it to look through an offset scope as a left handed shooter?