Page "Bolt action" Paragraph 4

European armies continued to develop bolt-action rifles through the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, first adopting tubular magazines as on the Kropatschek rifle and the Lebel rifle, a magazine system pioneered by the Winchester rifle of 1866.

Ultimately the military turned to bolt-action rifles using a box magazine ; the first of its kind was the M1885 Remington-Lee, but the first to be generally adopted was the British 1888 Lee-Metford.

The Mauser G93 was considered the epitome of this type of action, and its descendents became the standard against which all such rifles are measured.

World War I marked the height of the bolt-action rifle's use, with all of the nations in that war fielding troops armed with various bolt-action designs.