Wänzl rifle

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| name = Wänzl rifle

| image = WanzlSmith.jpg

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| origin = Austrian Empire

| type = Breech-loading rifle

| is_ranged = yes

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| service = 1867–1918

| used_by = Austrian Empire
Qing Empire
Kingdom of DahomeyKea, R. A. “Firearms and Warfare on the Gold and Slave Coasts from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.” The Journal of African History, vol. 12, no. 2, 1971, pp. 185–213. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/180879. Accessed 2 Jan. 2024

| wars = Herzegovina Uprising (1882)
Boxer Rebellion
Balkan Wars
World War I (rear echelon troops)

| designer = Franz Wänzel

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| number = 70,000

| variants = Wänzel Infanterie Gewehr M1854/67
Wänzel Infanterie Gewehr M1862/67
Wänzel JägerStutzen M1854/67
Wänzel JägerStutzen M1862/67
Wänzel Extra-Corps Gewehr M1854/67
Wänzel Extra-Corps Gewehr M1862/67
Wänzel WallGewehr M1872

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| cartridge = 14×33mmRF (rimfire)
14×33mmR (centerfire)

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| action = Front-hinged trapdoor

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| feed = Single-shot

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File:Wanzl_rifles_stutzens.jpg

The Wänzl or Wänzel rifle was a breechloading conversion of the Lorenz M1854 and M1862 rifles. The Austro-Hungarian Empire used the Wänzel as their service rifle until they had enough Werndl-Holub M1867 rifles to arm the military.Никола Гажевић, Војна енциклопедија 7, Војноиздавачки завод, Београд (1974), стр. 548-550Никола Гажевић, Војна енциклопедија 10, Војноиздавачки завод, Београд (1976), стр. 676-679

The rifle was a lifting block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mmRF cartridge. The Austrians converted a total of 70,000 Lorenz muskets to Wänzels.