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As of 2017 the Rifle Shooter magazine [6] listed its successor Blaser R8 as one of the three most popular straight pull bolt-action together with Merkel Helix [7] and Browning Maral. [8] Some other notable modern straight pull bolt-action rifles are made by Chapuis, [9] Heym, [10] Lynx, [11] Rößler, [12] Strasser, [13] and Steel Action. [14]
The FR7 and FR8 were introduced in the 1950s when the Spanish military was already implementing the CETME automatic rifle, but did not yet have sufficient inventory to equip and train all troops. The rifles were made from existing stockpiles of Mauser bolt-action rifles. The FR-7 was a modification of the Model 1916 short rifle, which in turn ...
The French Army adopted its first bolt-action rifle, the Chassepot rifle, in 1866 and followed with the metallic cartridge bolt-action Gras rifle in 1874. European armies continued to develop bolt-action rifles through the latter half of the 19th century, first adopting tubular magazines as on the Kropatschek rifle and the Lebel rifle.
Bolt-action rifle Chile 1961– Rechambered from the original 7×57mm Mauser. CS/LR4: Bolt-action sniper rifle China 2012–present CS/LR35: Bolt-action sniper rifle China 2020–present QJY-201: General-purpose machine gun China 2020–present Madsen-Saetter machine gun: General-purpose machine gun Denmark 1961–present Sako TRG: Bolt-action ...
In shooting sports, bolt-action or semi-automatic rifles are the most commonly used. A shotgun is similar to a rifle but often smoothbore and larger in caliber, and typically fires either a shell containing many smaller scattering sub-projectiles called shots, or a single large projectile called a slug.
Single-shot bolt-action rifle France: 2,500,000 M14: Battle rifle United States: 1,530,000 2,380,000 1.38 million US M14 [88] ~150,000 – 1 million Taiwanese T57 [89] Marlin Model 1891, 1892, 1897 and 39: Lever-action rifle 2,200,000 [90] Berthier Models 1890-1907: Bolt-action rifle France: 2,000,000+ [91] Winchester Model 1912/42: Pump-action ...
The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle (or the Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947; [2] commonly abbreviated as M47) is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges. The M47 was the last bolt-action rifle designed with the intention of being general issue to infantry troops.
The Mauser Model 1893 is a bolt-action rifle commonly referred to as the Spanish Mauser, though the model was adopted by other countries in other calibers, most notably the Ottoman Empire. The M1893 was based on the experimental M1892 rifle, which Paul Mauser developed for the Spanish Army as part of a program to correct deficiencies in the ...