You can still find them online, but they run $10+ apiece, so it’s not exactly inexpensive to grab a handful of them for range use. Luckily PPU still makes ammunition, but there is no such luck with the en-bloc clips. These rifles were used through both world wars but dropped out of front line service afterwards, which means ammo and spare parts dried up. The only problem with this design from a collecting perspective is that you have to go out and source these en-bloc clips. Instead of an external magazine which you drop yourself when you’re out of ammunition, or an internal magazine that just hangs out until you load it again, an en-bloc clip holds the rounds as they are fed, then either flies out the top of the rifle when empty (à la M1 Garand) or drops out of the bottom (basically everything else). This rifle uses a similar method of loading to an M1 Garand, which is probably the most famous example of an en-bloc clip fed rifle. I got it all cleaned up, bought some ammo for it, and also had to buy en-bloc clips for it. I just so happened to pick up a 1915 production M1895 Steyr-Mannlicher carbine. I have weak wrists, and there are a lot of guns. Well, much to my wallet’s chagrin there was a huge batch of rifle recently imported from Ethiopia that includes more interesting rifles than I can shake a stick at.

Anything with history, especially history that it’s seen firsthand, is very likely something I’d like to own. I consider myself a firearms enthusiast, but specifically interested in “old” guns.

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