Voere Rifles are they good rifles?
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Brutus
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I have the 2185 Voere semi-auto sporter rifle in 30-06 calibre.
My impressions are thus:
This rifle has a match grade chamber. Regular store bought Winchester Power Point 180 grain bullets, 4 out of twenty rounds would not chamber. The remainder that did, in recoil, the bolt hit the end cap, pretty hard I think. I used a friends 30-06 168 grain handloads, loaded down, for M1 Garand pressures, with pretty good results in accuracy/functioning. So this rifle gets 30-06 Garand level reloads, from myself from now on. Most of us, would not be happy, not being able to use, 180s or 220s in any 30-06 rifle. This is that kind of rifle IMHO. I guess Austrian hunters would grab thier 9.3 mm rifles, if in need for heavier bullets for game I guess!?!?!?!
I believe these rifles have a short throat, which is good for accuacy with lighter bullets (150-168), but sucks for velocity & heavy for calibre bullets. I'll never ever shoot 180s from this rifle again, as I believe this rifle cannot handle them very well. Also, resized brass must be fully resized properly by the book, or else the match chamber will not accept them. Hence I found my once sloppy M-1 Garand reloads, were not properly resized and this Austrian rifle would not chamber any of them at all. (But that's my fault) And I corrected that issue. One good feature I like, the firing pin does not free float, it's cushioned up front, by a small spring, so one cannot inadvertantly 'slam-fire' this rifle, by merely chambering ammunition with high primers. Nice safety feature I think.
The barrel does heat up pretty fast after 6-9 rounds in quick succession, BUT it is a deer rifle, not a match rifle, so this is a moot point for most of us. But while sighting-in, it does need cooling time at the range.The trigger is externally adjustable, I think it's 3mm allen head, (dont quote me) and the allen head adjustment point is within the trigger guard, from the outside of the rifle. (nice)
The teeny tiny screw, that secures the back action cap, is exactly that....so don't loose it, or god-forbid, strip the threads on it!
Be warned!! You can adjust this trigger pull-weight down to a foolishly light pull, but this could be potentially dangerous, and the trigger reset feels 'dead' when too light, so again, be very careful here. It has the strangest feeling trigger I have ever owned on any rifle (and I have a few!) but with the proper ammunition, this can be a wickedly fast rifle to shoot. (I tried 110 grain bullets once, and it was really weird how quickly, this semi-auto would function) This is not a good first deer rifle, for novice shooters with poor trigger discipline! You know, all semi-automatics, need to be chambered properly for the first round, but this 2185 does it's very best impression of a Browning M2 .50 calibre HMG when one chargers, that first round into the chamber. Be careful around migrant workers!
The safety is designed to copy the style used in a Garand or M-14 copy, so anyone familiar with these US rifles, feels at home here. And with the rifle cocked, there is an indicator, one can feel within the trigger guard. (cool)
The recoil lugs are at the rear of the action (????) so, when stripping it down for cleaning, one has to be very careful not to chip wood from the underlying woodstock.
Which reminds me, when removing the action from the stock, the cocking handle must be manually held, all the way back, or one cannot remove the barrelled action, from the stock. The blueing is deep/dark/handsome. The steel parts are well made, the trigger group housing itself, not the smaller moving parts, is made of some synthetic material, but seems strong enough, so far, for me. The barrel is barely 20 inches, so she 'barks' pretty good for a 30-06. The magazines come two or five shot, one can pull out the plastic spacer in the two shot magazine, to bring it to three shot capacity, if you wish to do so, in our country.
Don't loose the magazines, the only decent priced ones (about 40 Euro each)come from the factory, at Kufstein Austria, & if you order from US suppliers, you will get a huge bill. If you email the company with a rifle serial number, and ask for it, they will snail-mail you a multi-language teardown manual, complete with a parts list for your rifle.
All in all, she's a typical high maintenance Austrian! Lots of eye-candy & good points, but very very picky about what she eats & there are some things she will not do!
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My grandfather has had one in 308 Norma since about the mid 70's. Mauser action, nice little rifle. As for accuracy, the medals him and my dad have hanging on the wall must prove something.
