Marco Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Spotted this concept rifle in the Wehrtehnische Studiensammlung, Koblenz. An effort to increase the maazine capacity of the Mauser. In the end the magazine did not make it, being expensive to produce and high jamming rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikB Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Looks like it'd bark knuckles operating the bolt, too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasemuseum Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Britain had a very similar concept for the Martini-Henry, with a magazine that clipped on the side. The soldier still had to hand load each round, only the ten or so rounds in the magazine were more readily to hand. Quite a lot of these were made and issued although they are quite rare now. I have a WW1 bayonet fencing rifle built from one of these. Cheers RT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N White Posted 19 July , 2018 Share Posted 19 July , 2018 Ian at Forgotten Weapons did a video on one of these a while back. Lots of closeups, very cool. https://youtu.be/E7B1RqiQAdM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve1871 Posted 21 July , 2018 Share Posted 21 July , 2018 Hello MARCO The M.71 Rifle had a large amount of inventors creating prototypes for this rifle , there were at least 3 different "horseshoe" or "U" shaped magazines submitted or at least patented in hopes of a winner. I no have my info, books ect. With me but one of these horseshoe mags was made by Ludwig and Lowe, there were also verticle Gravity fed going strait up, in line, another in line verticle but off set at the 2 o' clock position, a side mount, box magazine and a strange (unknown/not published) one by dreyse which has a steel mag well, in line going down for I would say maybe 8 or so rounds, a strange curving arm is at bottom, to push rounds up. Also, there is a 7 volume set of British patents that show about 7 or 9 different patents for converting the Gew.71 to a repeater. Between Mauser, Ludwig and Lowe, few other German, with Austrain Dreyse,Steyr , British and Belgian inventers, I would say maybe 12 to 15 experimental mag's were created, again I think only 3 types of Horseshoe, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 2 August , 2018 Share Posted 2 August , 2018 On 19/07/2018 at 16:40, Chasemuseum said: Britain had a very similar concept for the Martini-Henry, with a magazine that clipped on the side. The soldier still had to hand load each round, only the ten or so rounds in the magazine were more readily to hand. Quite a lot of these were made and issued although they are quite rare now. I have a WW1 bayonet fencing rifle built from one of these. Cheers RT Also made for the Peabody-Martini! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim7x57 Posted 24 October , 2018 Share Posted 24 October , 2018 Also for the US .45-70 Springfiekd, called the Mercalf Device after the officer who invented it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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