Competition
Roth-Steyr 1907 at the Backup Gun Match
Posting a couple videos on interesting versions of the Roth-Steyr pistols recently made me think about just how nice of a pistol the 1907 is to shoot, So, I figured I’d bring it out to […]
Austria
Prototype
Roth Steyr Developmental Models 1904 and 1906
Before the Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted the Roth Steyr Model 1907 as its official cavalry pistol, they of course went through a series of pistol trials. The winners of two sets of trials were the Roth […]
Antiques
1896 Bittner: The Most Beautiful Steampunk Pistol
One of the very last, most common, and best looking of the Austrian manually operated pistols is the Bittner. Designed by Gustav Bittner in 1893 and going into production in 1896 (the known examples were […]
Antiques
Reiger Model 1889: Quick-Change Revolver Clips!
Edwin Reiger was an Austrian designer who took the basic mechanism of the Passler & Seidl ring trigger manual pistol and added a sort of revolver magazine to it. Reiger used a drop-in 6-round clip […]
Manual Repeater
Passler Model 1887 Ring Trigger Pistol – Now With Mannlicher Clips!
Franz Passler and Ferdinand Seidl formed a partnership to make manually-operated pistols in Austria in the late 1880s, but the arrangement did not last. Their design was initially patented by Passler in Austria, and then […]
Manual Repeater
Schulhof Model 1887 Manual Ring-Trigger Pistol
Josef Schulhof was the the first and most prolific designer of manually operated pistols in Austria in the 1880s. For a brief few years, there was a lot of developmental work done in this field, […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Mannlicher 88/95 – A Rare World War One Update
The Austro-Hungarian Empire went into World War One with the Steyr M95 straight-pull rifle as its standard infantry arm. Heavy losses in just the first few months of the war made it clear that the […]
Slow motion
Steyr-Solothurn MP-34 in .45 ACP at the Range
Today we are out at the range with the .45 ACP Steyr-Solothurn MP-34. I was curious to see how this submachine gun, much more commonly found in 9mm, would handle with the big .45 caliber […]
Submachine Guns
Subguns for South America: the Steyr-Solothurn MP-34 in .45ACP
The MP-34 was made by Steyr-Solothurn in four different calibers – 9×19 for the Germany army, 9×25 for the Austrian army, 9×23 for the Austrian police, and .45 ACP for the export market. This is […]
Antiques
Ethiopian M90/95 Hybrid Mannlicher Carbine
Today we are looking at a uniquely Ethiopian carbine, a hybrid M90/95 Mannlicher. It began life as an Austrian-issue M90 carbine proofed in 1892. It served through World War One, and was probably given to […]