Steyr is as important to the history of European and world arms as is Remington, and produced just as many rifles. The Werndl is Steyr’s initial foray into small arms for national armies, and the Werndl rifle is the piece that got Steyr off the ground.
For the most part, the Werndl is a conventional military rifle of the day but with a uniquely creative metallic cartridge action. Its early version is fitted with a back-action lock powering a conventional hammer, but the receiver is a large, hollowed-out fist of steel, left unblued, enclosing a solid cylindrical drum rotating on a central axis pin, one side of which is scooped out to form a loading ramp and to expose access to the chamber.
Its early cartridge owes some of its design to Remington’s cartridge of the day, being mostly straight-walled with only a slight taper to aid extraction. Back sights were an un-notable ramp-and-leaf variety, and the remaining features were also completely conventional.
When originally developed, the M1867 Werndl issued to troops was chambered in the straight-walled 11.15x42R cartridge (Hoyem). Barnes refers to this cartridge as an 11.4x50R (certainly incorrect), but an examination of what appears to be an unaltered M1867 cartridge suggests that it is more properly an 11.2 x 42R. As you can guess, because of multiple manufacturers with slight differences in tolerance, rough dimensions are the order of the day.
A small sample of original 1863 ammunition is available for this rifle.
Considering its age, this rifle is in Very Good Condition.
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