The Italian Vetterli Rifle: Development, Variants and History in Service by Robert Wilsey SCHURMEIER

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The Italian Vetterli Rifle: Development, Variants and History in Service by Robert Wilsey SCHURMEIERTable of Contents The author of the earlier work entitled The Italian Vetterli System, published by the Royal Armouries, has produced an enhanced volume containing more than three times the content of the original. The Italian Vetterli was in service for over 40 years, and the author describes how it was developed as a long rifle, a short rifle, a cavalry and a police carbine, in single shot form and later adapted for a variety of magazine feeds as