Buckshot
11-28-2005, 08:54 AM
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Here's another abomination I cobbled up. In the rear is a M95 Chilean Short Rifle, and it's all correct and un-futzed with. It has a 3 digit serial number with no prefix, and Loewe production makes me think it's one of the first thousand produced.
Anyway, the one in the front is the issue. I had bought a couple M95 actions from Century for $29 complete. Some years before I had bought some NOS, FN produced 19.5" barrels chambered to 7x57 for the Brazilian M1922 carbine contract. I forget now, but they were less then $20. There must have been a boxcar load as they're STILL being sold, but not for $20 or whatever it was.
Springfield Sporters had NOS, unused carbine stocks and handguards for like $35. Too bad they were birch and not walnut but still cheap for a rifle handle. I also asked them to send me, "One of every small ring carbine part they had". What I got was enough to finish the thing up. One wonked up thing is that the rear sight is for a M94 Swede :D Oh well!
The barrel needs to have about 2" cut off of it to be correct. I didn't have the means at the time to mess with it. With military equivilent (44K) loads it's a bucker for sure. I wonder what they'll make of it 100 years from now?
................Buckshot
Here's another abomination I cobbled up. In the rear is a M95 Chilean Short Rifle, and it's all correct and un-futzed with. It has a 3 digit serial number with no prefix, and Loewe production makes me think it's one of the first thousand produced.
Anyway, the one in the front is the issue. I had bought a couple M95 actions from Century for $29 complete. Some years before I had bought some NOS, FN produced 19.5" barrels chambered to 7x57 for the Brazilian M1922 carbine contract. I forget now, but they were less then $20. There must have been a boxcar load as they're STILL being sold, but not for $20 or whatever it was.
Springfield Sporters had NOS, unused carbine stocks and handguards for like $35. Too bad they were birch and not walnut but still cheap for a rifle handle. I also asked them to send me, "One of every small ring carbine part they had". What I got was enough to finish the thing up. One wonked up thing is that the rear sight is for a M94 Swede :D Oh well!
The barrel needs to have about 2" cut off of it to be correct. I didn't have the means at the time to mess with it. With military equivilent (44K) loads it's a bucker for sure. I wonder what they'll make of it 100 years from now?
................Buckshot