Infantry rifle of the Krnka system of the 1869 model

Общая длина: 1346 мм.
Длина ствола: 899 мм.
Калибр: 15.24 мм.

An original and very rare rifle recently deactivated in accordance with the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On guns". The barrel is steel, round in cross section, with a rifled channel. The caliber of 6 lines is 15.24 mm. The front sight is rounded, on a rectangular platform. The sight consists of a block and a hinged folding rear sight attached to it. The weapon number 6588 is punched on the barrel, as well as a number of inspection stamps of military acceptance. A brass receiver with a groove for inserting cartridges into the barrel bore is screwed onto the breech of the barrel, which is attached to the bed by means of a tail screw. The shutter is hinged, semi-cylindrical in shape, opens by folding from right to left. In the inclined channel drilled into the gate there is an impact stud with a rod resting against it, the head of which is hit by a trigger. The firing mechanism is similar to the percussion cap of an infantry rifle model 1845, except for the trigger. A trigger with a notch on the spoke and a shock part extended to the left of the axis. The shock lock is an ordinary device, with the only difference that its head was moved away from the axis of the striker; when the trigger was pulled, the trigger hit the drummer, which broke the cartridge capsule. An ejector rotating on the axis served to eject the spent cartridge case; when the shooter opened the bolt, tilting it to the left, the bolt hit the beveled protruding part of the ejector; the latter, rotating on the axis, hit the other end on the rim of the sleeve, throwing it out of the chamber of the barrel. The image of the Russian double-headed eagle with the letters "PK" under it (the stamp of the state military acceptance) is punched on the upper part of the lock, the stamp of the Tula Arms Factory and the date of manufacture of the board are punched in the form of the inscription "T.O.Z. 1866". The stamp of the manufacturer "I.T.O.Z." ("Imperial Tula Arms Factory") is punched on the upper part of the castle, above is an image of a double-headed eagle and the letters "PK" under it (the stamp of acceptance of the Ministry of War). The bed is wooden, with a long forearm. Butt with a straight neck. The trigger guard is made of copper and steel alloy, rounded, composite, with a bracket. The trigger is C-shaped. The back cover is L-shaped, with a comb, mounted on two screws. The barrel is attached to the bed with a screw through the shank and three steel clips (false rings), on the middle of which the bracket is fixed. The ramrod is made of steel, with a cylindrical tip and a screwed-on rear end. The image of the Russian double-headed eagle is also punched on the back of the butt.

The Krnka rifle (in the original spelling — Krynka) is a single—shot front-mounted rifle system of the Czech gunsmith, Austrian citizen Sylvester Krnka, adopted in 1869 in the Russian Empire. In the 1860s, the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire actively sought opportunities for rapid rearmament of the army with rifled breech-loading weapons for cartridges with metal casings. Along with the development and search for new samples of such weapons, special attention was paid to the possibility of converting existing muzzle-loading samples into breech-loading ones. The Ministry's attention was attracted by the model of the Austrian gunsmith Sylvester Krnk. The main advantage of the model was the simplicity of its design and the ease with which Russian 6-line muzzle-loading rifles mod. 1856 (rifle) and 1858 (infantry) could be converted to this model. The redesign was approved on March 18, 1869. Work on the alteration was carried out on a massive scale, both at public and private enterprises.