Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 229
r countries in adopting^a small bore, namely, 0*315 inch. Italy has converted her single-fireVetterli rifle into a magazine arm, with a box something like the Mann-licher, and Belgium has adopted a gun of the same type. The rate offire from charged magazines of such guns as the Lee, Mannlicherand… … The Magazine and Breech of the Mannlicher Ri/le. according to the contrivance used. The number of rounds the magazineof a rifle is capable of containing when fully charged is from 5 to 12, ormore, according to the difference of system. It is considered that in thedetachable Lee or the quick…
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