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The Mannlicher M1895 (German: Infanterie Repetier-Gewehr M.95, Hungarian: Gyalogsági Ismétlő Puska M95; "Infantry Repeating-Rifle M95") is an Austro-Hungarian straight pull bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action bolt, much like the Mannlicher M1890 carbine.
Steyr Date Code Chart. Steyr pistols are marked with a three-digit date code on the slide just forward of the ejection port. The first letter represents the month of manufacture. The second and third letters represent the last two digits of the year of manufacture. In this example, the date code "BOY" indicates a pistol manufactured in April 2007.
The Geweer M. 95, also known to collectors as the Dutch Mannlicher, was the service rifle of the armed forces of the Netherlands between 1895 and 1940 which replaced the obsolete Beaumont-Vitali M1871/88.
333,454 S-prefix serial numbers. 970,000 N-prefix serial numbers. Mannlicher M1886 and M1888: Bolt-action rifle ... Steyr M1912: Semi-automatic pistol
Greece was almost continuously in state of war between the years 1904–1922 and 1940–1948. It appears that the Greeks issued four main contracts. The original Steyr-made Y1903 ("Y" stands for model in Greek), started being supplied in 1906–07 to a total of about 130,000 long rifles and carbines.
In the interwar period, a number of nations had a variety of rifles in their inventory, including a variety of Mannlicher rifles such as the M.95 and M.88-90. In the mid-1920s, both Greece and Serbia would convert most of their available Mannlicher rifles to a new short rifle pattern similar to their Mauser rifles, giving them new handguards ...
The Model 1895 brought to the “Transvaal” was also known as "Boer Model" Mauser [4] and those delivered to the Orange Free State (Oranje Vrij Staat) were marked “O.V.S.” just above the serial number accompanied. Rifles delivered to the Transvaal bore no state markings. All were marked “Mod. Mauser” followed by the date of manufacture.
The Steyr M is a series of semi-automatic pistols developed by Steyr Mannlicher GmbH & Co KG of Austria for police services and the civilian shooting market. Design work on the new pistol began in the early 1990s and the final product known as the M9 (adapted to fire the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge) was officially unveiled in the spring of 1999. [1]