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I recently picked up a chinese kuaili 88/90 mannlicher and I’ve been trying to do some research. There are some chinese characters stamped on the receiver and I’m hoping someone can translate them for me. Any help is appreciated.
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The Chinese Says "快利乙未造". "快利" is the name. "乙未" I think is the year. I will get back to you on that. "造" means manufactured

Really hope to see pictures of the rifle lol.

Edit: 乙未 should come from the ###agenary Cycle, refering to the year 1895.
 
Thanks for the replies. I had a look on that thread, I noticed that rifle doesn’t have these markings for whatever reason
 
Thanks for the translation, it would be awesome to find out the year it was made whenever you can confirm that. At the very least I owe you some pics of the full rifle, I’ll get them posted in a half hour or so lol
 
乙未 mean any of the following years, base on the history, I would assume 1895. The stamp stated made by JiangNan manufacturer, there were also another factory in Tianjin makes them rifles...

35年
95年
155年
215年
275年
335年
395年
455年
515年
575年
635年
695年
755年
815年
875年
935年
995年
1055年
1115年
1175年
1235年
1295年
1355年
1415年
1475年
1535年
1595年
1655年
1715年
1775年
1835年
1895年
1955年
2015年
2075年
2135年
2195年
2255年
2315年
2375年
2435年
2495年
2555年
2615年
2675年
2735年
2795年
2855年
2915年
2975年
 
Couples questions lol. Where did you find it? What is it currently chambered in? Any story how it made its way to Canada? From what I read, the "New Army" didnt like them much and they were quickly phased out and replaced with imported rifles.
 
I found it up here in Canada with a dealer in quebec, I didn’t know what it was when I saw it. I didn’t ask about how he got it but I don’t mind sending an email and asking.

It’s chambering in 7.62x55r but will chamber 7.62x54r just don’t shoot that through it. Ive read that you can fire 7.62x54r through it if it’s a light hand load or black powder. The surviving examples of the ammo are smokeless or compressed black powder.

I read on another forum that they were ordered to be destroyed but 180ish of the 11000 survived into the early 1900s.


That being said I’m not an expert or close to it, I don’t collect chinese rifles. I do my best to stick to just the French and Italian stuff.
 
Awesome thanks for the link....lol I’ve had a a gun rapidly disassemble before and I’m not interested in another experience like that. Wall hanger it is.
 
In case anyone’s curious I spoke to seller about where this gun came from. It came to Canada from French Indochina with a Frenchman
 
My Chinese wife did some searching on Chinese websites and translated to English. She is still investigating and I’ll post up anything interesting.

1) The fast rifle was the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in 1891. It carefully studied various rifles from the West, including the domestic rifles that were developed after the latest rifles in Austria, Britain, Germany and other countries. In 1892, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Tianjin Machinery Bureau produced a prototype gun.

2) In 1890, Li Hongzhang, the governor of the two rivers, saw that the guns produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were old-fashioned. The imitation of the British Nanxia guns was not applicable. It was "the order for the Manlixia and the New Mausers to be counterfeited." In the same year, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau After purchasing the sample guns of various countries, they have copied the Austrian Manlysia and the British New Liyang guns. In 1891, he carefully studied the advantages and disadvantages of the three guns of Manlyxia, Xinli and Nanxia. He took the length of each gun and designed a quick-rifle rifle to make six shots. In 1892, he was sent to the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau for a test. The result of the investigation was "equal to the new German Mauser, and its speed and route were even above Manlysia." It was officially put into production that year, and the Leyi rifle was stacked. At that time, the rifle was designed with reference to the Manly summer rifle of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the British New rifle and the South Summer rifle. It has the characteristics of these three rifles, such as insurance and bayonet. It is based on the Manlyxia M1888 rifle (English: Mannlicher M1888), while the gun and barrel are referenced to the new rifle, and the magazine is the reference Nanxia rifle. The fast rifle's magazine is a fixed vertical magazine, and the gun is a straight-pull gun. The magazine has a capacity of five rounds and an ammunition of .303 British (7.7×56mmR) (English: .303 British). [1]

However, the rifle steel is not good, some are fried, and some are soft. The domestic machinery that does not press the drug, or the use of the ball medicine, so the domestic bullets have a very low initial velocity. The power of the new fast gun is insufficient, and the cowhide can not be worn outside the Baizhang. As a result, after the Gengzi Incident, no soldiers dared to use the new fast, so the Beiyang forces began a large number of imported Manlyxia rifles, Gewehr 88 rifles and 30-year-old rifles. The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau later began to convert the Hanyang Eighth-eighth rifle from the Hanyang Plant.
 
Thanks for the help everyone, especially for that translation. It made a lot more sense than what google translate was giving me. I should have the rifle Tuesday so if anyone is interested in any other pics I’d be happy to take them
 
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