The title of this article might sound like the marquee sign for a magic act.  But this piece is more like a segment of Ian McCollum’s Forgotten Weapons video series. In the late 1860s, the Swiss inventor and gunmaker Johann-Friedrich Vetterli designed a bolt-action repeating rifle (“Repetiergewehr“) that was a true innovation. With its very large magazine capacity, I consider the Vetterli an 1870s Sturmgewehr predecessor. Far Ahead Of its Time The Vetterli rifle saw Swiss army service from 1869 to 1889. The Vetterli rifle combined the American Winchester Model 1866’s tubular magazine and cartridge lifter with a turning bolt … The post The Amazing Vetterli appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.