Ammo clip ID help

**sdesic** · 10-05-2017, 08:03 AM

Found ammo clips - stripper clips.
M95 Steyr En-Bloc Clip ... Austria-Hungary?

Ammo for this clip is brass - bullet is lead with IRON shield?

**sdesic** · 10-05-2017, 08:11 AM

Found a few rounded ones and few pointy bullet heads.
Site was active before WWI and in WWII.
Bosnia

**UK Cousin** · 10-06-2017, 03:43 AM

Yes m95 and m95/30 steyr enbloc's. Chambered in 8x50r and 8x56r.

**sdesic** · 10-06-2017, 08:10 AM

Do we have a period?
I know it is 50 years of use ...

**PRE** · 10-06-2017, 02:54 PM

by sdesic

Do we have a period?
I know it is 50 years of use ...

I think you answered your own question, actually. These were used through 1945, so up to that point.

Another question would be 'by whom in Bosnia?' Austrian troops were active in the Balkans early in WWI, while Mannlicher weapons remained in inventory with the army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and it's successor, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. They were also probably used by second and third line German occupation troops and Police personnel through WWII, or their local allies.

Pat

**sdesic** · 10-06-2017, 03:06 PM

They did a good job LOL
Leaving live ammo and spent ones.
I am finding both types of ammo Austria-Hungary and later ... pointy bullet and blunt one.
Last battlefield was WWII ... 1943 (by the books)

**UK Cousin** · 10-06-2017, 04:20 PM

The ammunition should be head stamped. 8x50mm is ww1.. 8x56mm is ww2

**lithgow** · 10-07-2017, 03:17 PM

'8 x 50 mm' is round nose, original type of ammo-'8 x 56 mm' is pointy type used in rebuilt rifles from 1930 or so but not all the Steyr rifles were rebuilt/rechambered for the new ammo.

**PRE** · 10-07-2017, 06:13 PM

by UK Cousin

The ammunition should be head stamped. 8x50mm is ww1.. 8x56mm is ww2

In areas like Bosnia, both types of ammunition would have been in use simultaneously in WWII. There were lots of weapons still chambered in 8X50 that didn't get re-chambered that were acquired by the Germans through conquest and added to their own inventory. I have a Model 1890 Mannlicher Gendarmerie Carbine still in original caliber (8X50) and original configuration that was acquired by the Serbs in WWI, captured by the Germans in WWII, and depot stamped by them. Places like Yugoslavia and Greece still had weapons like this up to the 1940 invasions of their countries, and these went to both German and Italian forces.