My steyr M95s

It's called "an American rifleman reprint military rifles"

Photographs and description of u.s. and foreign shoulder arms and cartridges of ww1 and ww2.

I bought it off a guy at a gun show. He told me the nra had reprinted them and they weren't being made anymore.

He had a few.
 
Tried the exact load out of them all so I can decide what to do with 2 of them.
Believe it or not the worst one was still pretty good with gas checked boolit's and ball ammo.
But without gas check's, they all were quite large group's. But none tumbled.
 
LEE mold, as cast 1/2 with gas check the other without.
I'm going to try paper patching an 8mm mauser boolit to see if there's a differance, might try PP a 329 boolit for the most worn out one.
 
Yeah, finally I was fast enough to grab this one! This Bulgarian contract will be nice addition to my M1895 collection.
BTW anyone has spare Bulgarian bolt with the hole on top? This came with replacement bolt.

 
M95 are really underappreciated. I see one Budapest Stuzen on EE for more than reasonable price and nobody cares to grab it :/ I would have grabbed, but I have mine.
 
I took my M95 Long Rifle to the range the other weekend and I was amazed at how enjoyable it was to shoot. I was getting some comments like I have always seen these for sale but never actually seen one fired. I let some people give it a shot and they all enjoyed it as well. Personally I think it is very cool to shoot something from 1917 with ammo manufactured in 1938 (only shot off 20rds of that just to see how it shot the rest I own I am keeping). The only thing that was difficult was at 50 meters you have to aim about a foot below the target to get a accurate shot off. These rifles are truly underappreciated but realistically I don't want to try shooting those little carbines with that serious 8x56r round (which is why they are usually in such good condition and always for sale).
 
the long rifles do seem to be in much better condition then the carbines and cut downs. you have to remember the better shape something is in the less use it probably actually got during the war.
 
Well I thought I would continue this thread because I really enjoy it. Here is a picture of my two Steyr M95's. One is a M95 Infantriegewehr (Long Rifle) manufactured in 1917 by Steyr which was converted to 8x56r. The other I got recently and can't wait to shoot. It is a M95 Karabinerstutzen manufactured in 1915 by Budapest that was converted to 8x56r then it was converted into a 'police carbine' (I do not know the proper designation for it only having seen it referred to as a police carbine). The conversion involved removing the bottom sling swivel from the stock (they also plugged the spot on the stock with a piece of wood unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it) and barrel band (replaced it with a washer, in my case it might have just been broken off by them), and putting a larger front sight on to lower the point of impact (making it more useful for short range shooting which is why I can't wait to shoot it).

These rifles are truly interesting, and underappreciated, which is for me a good thing as they will remain cheap if there is little interest. Now here are some pics (the bayonets are also proper for the rifles, the Budapest Carbine (I can call it a carbine as it is a police carbine) has a Budapest bayonet, and the Steyr M95 Infantriegewehr has a Steyr Bayonet).





the difference between sights (note the Carbine sights still go out to 2400M).



the larger front sight



the barrel band on the carbine, the solid sling bar is how it was determined to have been a Karabinerstutzen, note the broken off sling swivel on the bottom



the receiver on the carbine



the receiver on the long rifle



and something I need help with, are these just import marks or are they something else? They are on the barrel beside the front sight on the carbine.



 
BG stands for Bulgaria, international two letter country code. So yes, probably import or export marks.

BTW, original bayos for Stuzen have auxiliary sights.
STUTZEN-BAYO1.jpg
 
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