The Wanzl rifle was a breechloading conversion of the M1854 & M1862 Lorenz rifle used as the service rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until they had enough M1867 Werndl-Holub rifles to arm the military.The rifle was a lifting-block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mm Wanzl rimfire cartridge. A total of 70000 Lorenz muskets were converted to Wanzls.
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length (km)
1.05156
origin
Austrian Empire
type
Breech-loading weapon
used in war
Balkan Wars, Boxer Rebellion, World War I, Herzegovina_Uprising_(1882)
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