I'm trying to think of ways to drum up shooters for a "WWI Warhorse Match" I'm holding this November 11... The one basic rule is that rifles must have been used in combat by someone in WWI.  Well, at least be able to make the case that they conceivably could have been with a straight face.

Naturally, most of the ones on my "list" are turn bolts...
However... I know that for one, the Austrian Werndl was used by SOME troops during WWI.  (Probably someplace deep in Austria-Hungary, guarding an outhouse or some such...).


So it has me wondering...
What OTHER Single Shot rifles were used by combatants in WWI ?
I know around that time the Winchester Winder .22 Short was used... though not actually a combat rifle.

Any nation using Rolling Blocks in the Great War?

Curiosity unbound...
Paul F.

there might have been some ss used in south america and well as the east african colonial campaigns----especially as issued to the native colonial troops.   Not sure what all were used in the middle eastern campaigns.  maybe I can check some of my sources and figure out a bit more.

Not exactly what you asked, but I believe that the Australian .310 Cadet rifle was used in the *second* world war.  At least, they manufactured FMJ ammunition for them in anticipation of a Japanese invasion (the .310 lead bullets apparently would have been a violation of the Hague Conventions or some such).

Oh, and don't forget the single shot "Liberator" pistol.

Doug

I'm thinking that the Brits used up a lot of their east indian colonial troops in their disasterous WW I era invasion of what is now Iraq.   I guessing they might have been equipped with Indian frontier singleshots.   MH?   Sniders????

Sniders? Sniders RULE!

In panic at the start of the war, both France and Russia had Remington build rolling blocks for them, chambered for their service cartridges, namely the 8 Lebel and the 7.62x54R. 

I doubt these made it to the front lines. I've read the French distributed them to men well behind the lines, such as guards at various locations. I don't know if the Russian models were delivered before Russia exited the war, but I suspect they did, because examples were reported found in Vietnam in that later war.

Originals in these chamberings are rare, and at least some collectors feel it is not safe to fire service ammo in them.  They were, by far, the chamberings that most stressed the rolling block action.

There were a few .303 Brit models made for Canada well before the war, but I doubt they ever left Canada.