The Berdan II rifle was a follow on to the Berdan I trapdoor style rifle designed by Col Hiram Berdan of US Civil War fame, the Berdan II was a single shot turnbolt & the cartridge was one of the most powerful military rifle cartridges in use at the time. Early Berdan II rifles had standard type sights a later variant used an additional long range volley sight (in vogue in European military circles at the turn of the Century), The Berdan rifle was still available to Russian forces at the beginning of WW1 & saw use in the original 10.68 cal & in a version that was known as "the 3 line Berdan" which was a Berdan modified to use the standard Mosin-Nagant 7.62x54r round.
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