#Gew.91 and m.90 mannlicher
golden girder
gewehr 91 made in suhl in 1891
first issued to the bavarian 1st foot artillery regiment, battery number 5
later issued to the 2nd light howitzer company of the same regiment
the m.90 is unknown for both date and unit
maiden veldt
dude the gewehr 91 is my dream gun
i own a 1909 argentine mauser carbine which bears some resemblance
golden girder
i love the snub nose carbines
maiden veldt
nah its not, its a cavalry carbine
golden girder
ah i see
fiery ore
could you add in a why and a how you got these items? ty for participating ofc!
rain geyser
WHOA
golden girder
The industrial revolution has always been an interst of mine with how competitive nations got to not get left behind. In particular the modernization of their armies stood out to me with how it wasnt just an arms race but one of modernizing the logistics and infastructure of the country as a whole, from changing how food is prepared and stored to how transport is designed in order to move their growing armies. The innovations in Arms cannot be overlooked when looking at the industrialization of Europe as the strength of ones army dictated how they shaped much of their Foreign policy, nobody wanted to be at a dissadvantage. The firearms here are two examples of the stopgap measures the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians made in order to catch up with the French's newly unveiled 1886 Lebel firing smokeless powder. I have a particular fondness for the Commision series of rifles developed by the Gewehr-Prüfungskommission
Mostly due to the fact that it shows the teething issues nations had with adopting new technologies and the methods used to remedy these issues. The new smokeless powder produced much higher pressures than blackpowder. This wasn't well understood in initial developement with some barrels being destroyed from the excess pressure and many barrels wearing down the rifling to quickly. In order to fix these problems a new type of steel was used, the rifling was made deeper, and the barrel profile was thickened around the chamber. To keep the rifle around and to standardize supply lines the Gew.88 rifles were retrofitted with clip guides and the chamber neck widened to allow same ammunition as the Gew.98.
The Mannlicher 1890 is another great example of the old doctrines mixing with new technologies. The rear sight is graduated in Schritte, the old Austrian way of measuring short distance (much like the Russian arshin) with the minimun range set to 500 schritt or 375 meters which is an unusually long range for mounted troops to fight at. Showing that the new smokeless powder was expected to extend engagement ranges well past the previous werndl's minimun sight of 200 schritte
golden girder
Most of these Carbines were either updated in the years prior to WWI or destroyed after Versaille, making these non-updated ones a very important piece of early Great War firearms history and the rapid technological advances that came immediately before it as a whole
fiery ore
So that's the why, but how did you get it?
So it being the industrial revolution being an interest of yours made you pick these right?