Original British P-1871 Martini-Henry MkII Short Lever Rifle with 1870s Date - Cleaned and Complete Hand Select:Yes the Vickers guns were redefined

the Vickers guns were redefined as heavy machine guns

This system is the traditional push/pull safety system on bolt handle that includes extractor

Although the British never embraced this European improvement

and of all Gurkha regiments throughout the world

Original British P-1871 Martini-Henry MkII Short Lever Rifle with 1870s Date - Cleaned and Complete Hand Select:Yes the Vickers guns were redefinedOriginal Items. Very Few Available. Dates and Manufacturers Vary. Few military rifles are as closely associated with the height of the Victorian British Empire as the Martini Henry. Adopted during the 1870s, it armed British troops through some of the most famous colonial campaigns of the era and became forever linked with the Anglo Zulu War of 1879. The MkII Short Lever rifle is the pattern carried during the desperate fighting at Isandlwana and the