Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Mannlicher 88/95 - A Rare World War One Update" video.

  1. The bolt is more complicate to manufacture, the extraction is weaker (it's easier to open a stuck bolt action by force without breaking anything) and the Steyr-Manlicher is practically the only straight-pull that didn't show problems in trench warfare.
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  2.  @williamsample2631  Thank you!
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  3.  @ineednochannelyoutube5384  We have a first hand explanation in Maj. Luigi Gucci book "Armi portatili" year 1915, p.58. It's about the Carcano semiauto conversion, that had been shown here https://youtu.be/jrp7QLSlKD4 The reason was that, altough the rifle was perfectly functional, and costed way less than a new semiauto rifle, in adopting a semiauto rifle for all the army, the price of the rifle was, in the end, marginal in respect to the price of the logistic. IE the price of a brand new semiauto rifle, not a conversion, was estimated in 60L, that of a single Carcano cartridge was 0.1L, so a semiauto rifle costed like 600 cartridges. So it made little sense to adopt a solution that, "however ingenious, simple and well designed is, it's anyway a stopgap and, as such, it can't fully comply to all the requirements of an excellent infantry semiautomatic rifle."
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