Guns

The Teutonic Mentality

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Mannlicher In his review of a Mannlicher Classic for our August issue, Outdoor Life Shooting Editor Jim Carmichel was writing about the intricate single-set trigger on the rifle, which “would make a cuckoo-clock maker green with envy,” adding this aside:

Which explains to perfection why so many guns of German and Austrian origin look and work the way they do.

—John Snow