The Wänzl or Wänzel rifle was a breech-loading conversion of the Lorenz M1854 and M1862 rifles. After countering Prussian Zündnadelgewehr, The Austrian Empire adopted the Wänzl as a service rifle before replacing it with the Werndl-Holub M1867 rifle. The rifle was a lifting-block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mmRF cartridge. A total of 70,000 Lorenz rifles were converted to the Wänzl system. Contract to make 80,000 unit.
== See also == Albini-Braendlin rifle Snider-Enfield rifle Springfield model 1873 Tabatière rifle Green M1867, a Serbian conversion of Lorenz M1854 Weaponry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
References
== Sources == Manowar's Hungarian Weapons
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