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Is this the first sniper rifle of the Swiss Army?
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The star of today's show is the Swiss M1842 Stutzer or percussion military rifle. This large calibre cap-and-ball rifle is half way between a military rifle and a civilian target rifle and this was the first - not so strictly - standardized rifle of the federal army. Both its features and both the story of the Swiss sharpshooter troops is interesting.