Light Weapons in Romanian Service

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The socket bayonet is not the real M. 79 Romanian pattern. The Romanian M.79 bayonet that equipped the M.79 Henry-Martini rifle was a copy of the French M. 74 “epee”-bayonet of the M.74 “Gras” rifle. See bellow in the drawing made by A. Potocky in 1920s how the bayonet was attached to the M.79 Henry-Martini rifle.



The French M.74 Gras bayonet:

http://www.oldrifles.com/fre-bay.htm

The bayo don't fit the bayonet lug placed on the front barrel band.I have 2 saber-bayonets for Romanian Martini Henry rifle, one marked Steyr 1881 and the second Alex Coppel, Solingen.

Great, I got the licence...all I need is twenty five hundred bucks

...maybe it's time for the AR-15 to go...

Hi,

The original Austrian Mannlicher M-95 was 8x50, the Hungarian 1931 modification was 8x56.

I own a Austrian M-95 rifle and carbine, use to have Hungarinian carbine, but sold that to a friend of my fathers who now complains it kicks like a mule.

I'd be interested to know which round the Romanian M-95s used.

The M-95 Rifle I have must of seen action in WWII as it has AOL (no not America online, I can't remember what it stands for) stamped on its wooden butt, which is what the weapons of Italian colonial troops had on them. So it probably ended up in Italy after WWI. Prehaps the Romanians got theirs the same way as war reparations in 1918.

Wayne

This post has been edited by Wayne Turner on January 25, 2006 08:06 pm

The Model 95 Mannlichers used by the Romanian Army were chambered for the 8x50 Mannlicher round ( different from the 8x50 Lebel cartridge, also used by romanians during WWI)

Hello Wayne,

You are right. Your M 95 rifle belongs to the huge numbers the Italians got either as war reparation items or simple captures at the end of WWI. It was certainly given to native Italian troops in Abisinia or Somalia - "A.O.I." stands for Africa Orientale Italiana.

Romania received straight-pull Mannlichers as war repartions. However, purchase of newly manufactured (or refurbished or both) M 95 from Czechoslovakia also occurred in the early Twenties.

Ruy

I just want to notice that The Romanian M.1879 Henry-Martini rifle (as it was known here), was made by two producers: the first 80,000 rifles and 8,000 cavalry carbines were ordered in Witten (Westphalia). Because the production rate was too slow, Romanian authorities ordered further 60,000 rifles to Steyr (Austria). 17,000 rifles of this last order were paid by public subscription.

The weapons produced in Witten had a simpler leaf on their rear sight and the Austrian model had a double leaf rear sight. The first leaf was sighted from 500 m to 1400 m and the second folding leaf was sighted from 1400 m to 1800m.

You've got the answer to the last sentence of this link
http://www.militaryrifles.com/Romania/RomPeab-Martini.htm