![]() In the First World War many were also captured during the Romanian Campaign and used in the original caliber. Unassembled rifles were modified to accommodate the 8×50mmR Mannlicher cartridge and issued to Austo-Hungarian troops. Remaining assembled rifles were issued to units of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the start of World War I in the original caliber. Some 120,000 rifles and 14,000 carbines were delivered to Romania up to 1914. ![]() It was used by cavalry and artillery units.Īround 195,000 of these rifles were manufactured in total. ![]() Ī carbine variant was also introduced, it was 98 centimetres (39 in) long and featured a bent bolt handle. The rifle's adoption caused some controversy, as despite the weapon's approval by King Carol I, General Constantin Budișteanu derided the Austrian rifle as un baston ("a walking stick"), and the rifle's bore, smaller than the usual Mannlicher product, caused difficulties in finding compatible gunpowder. Unlike the Austrian-issue Mannlicher M1895 straight-pull bolt-action rifle, the Romanian rifle had a conventional turn-bolt. After some minor improvements, the final variant, the M1893, chambered for the 6.5x53R round also called the "6.5x53.5mmR Romanian", was put into production. After Ferdinand Mannlicher modified his en-bloc clip feeding system, to allow it to be fed into the rifle regardless of whether the clip was turned up or down, the Model 1892 rifle was ready for testing by the Romanian Army. They turned to the nearby Österreichische Waffenfabriksgesellschaft in Steyr, Austria-Hungary where Otto Schönauer was modifying the German Gewehr 1888 rifle. Romanian soldier with the M93 and its bayonetĪround the year 1890 the Romanian military started its search for a small bore, smokeless powder firearm to replace the breech-loading single-shot Peabody–Martini–Henry M1879. It was later replaced by the Czechoslovak-designed Vz. The rifle and its 1892 predecessor were the first repeating rifles to be widely issued in the Romanian military. The Mannlicher M1893 (or M93) is a bolt-action rifle that was the standard service rifle of the Kingdom of Romania from 1893 to 1938. ![]() ![]() 5-round en bloc clip, integral box magazine ![]()
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