While the price of old military bolt-actions rose steadily over the decades, the Steyr M95 has remained fairly low and today can still be found hovering around the $100 mark. With more than 3-million Ruck-Zucks manufactured 1895-1921, these guns have been on the surplus market worldwide since the Prohibition era. This was mitigated by the short rifle variant, a handy little 7-pound carbine that used a 19-inch barrel and has a very distinctive stacking rod on the front barrel band.
This meant that the original M95 would be considered huge by today’s standards at 50-inches long overall with a 29.5-inch barrel. To put it in perspective this gun was designed just 30-years after the American Civil War and long-barreled rifles that could mount a decent bayonet were the standard for warfare at the time. Between the fast bolt and the one-piece reload of the enbloc clip, it was possible for a trained rifleman to fire up to 30-rounds per minute with the M95.
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Once the rounds were loaded the clip would fall free through an opening in the bottom of the magazine box and was reusable.
This is not unlike the 8-shot enbloc of the M1 Garand familiar here in the US. To reload this fast-operating bolt gun, the M95 was charged with a five-shot enbloc spring steel clip that was held inside the rifle.
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The M95’s enbloc clip full of 8x56mm rounds.
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