For the 1895 version of his rifle, Mannlicher borrowed the locking arrangement of the Mauser rifle. Mannlicher came up with a mechanical system to convert forward and backward motion into the rotary motion needed to lock the bolt. This ensured that the bolt remained closed during firing and that hot, pressurised gas did not escape and harm accuracy, the fabric of the weapon, or the shooter. Conventional bolt-actions had a handle that had to be rotated through 60 or 90 degrees before the bolt could be pulled back. In 1884, just as the conventional bolt-action magazine rifle was being adopted around the world, Austrian inventor Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher was pushing the technology still further.
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