The concept has been implemented on most firearms chambered for high-powered cartridges since the 20th century.įerdinand Ritter von Mannlicher, who had earlier developed a non-rotating bolt straight-pull rifle, developed the Steyr-Mannlicher M1895, a straight-pull rifle with a rotating bolt, which was issued to the Austro-Hungarian Army. The first rotating bolt rifle with two lugs on the bolt head was the Lebel Model 1886 rifle.
The Dreyse locked using the bolt handle rather than lugs on the bolt head like the Mauser M 98 or M16. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse developed the first rotating bolt firearm, the ' Dreyse needle gun', in 1836. Rotating bolt is a method of locking the breech (or rear barrel) of a firearm closed for firing. JSTOR ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.
