Wanzl
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The Wanzl rifle was a breechloading conversion of the Lorenz musket used as the service rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1854 until it was replaced by the M1867 Werndl-Holub
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The rifle was a rotary-block breechloader chambered for the 14x33mm Wanzl rimfire cartridge. A total of 70,000 Lorenz muskets were converted to Wanzls.
M1867 Werndl-Holub
The M1867 Werndl-Holub was a single-shot breechloading rifle adopted by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1867. It replaced the breechloader-conversion Wanzl rifle...
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The rifle was a rotary-block breechloader chambered for the 14x33mm Wanzl rimfire cartridge. A total of 70,000 Lorenz muskets were converted to Wanzls.