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id64 said:
Hmm. A few thousand? I this rifle as used, but i was assured that it was only couple of hundred rounds trough it. General shape and condition plays with it accordingly. Weird.
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Okay I should have said, it's developed it over a few thousand, it started writhing the first 500. To ease your mind!
 
enefgee said:
Sort of. The actual PE90 as sold in the rest of the world is a semi 550. The 550 is prohib because it was in the Gun World Book of Assault Rifles and it made a bureaucrat pee his panties just looking at the picture. The Swiss Arms rifles we get here are in fact 540 based rifles, and since the 540 preceeded the 550 they aren't a variant of the 550, and we can own them. Keep in mind that with these rifles the Upper is the gun, not the Lower - so if the Lower looks a lot like a 550, there could be a reason. I believe the props for getting SA to produce a 540 based semi-auto rifle for Canadian civvies goes to The Shooting Edge, who were the original importers.
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If they are so different from one another...one would question why the Canadian "specials" have "PE" prefix serial numbers like all other semi-auto 55x rifles/carbines. A "CA" or "CAN" prefix serial number would make the 540 theory more believeable!
 
id64 said:
Thanks :) Is there any way to remove it?
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I don't think so, it doesn't Bother me any, it's from the brass deflecting off the bolt I'm pretty sure. So I think it's actually the finish being rubbed off.
That said I dot have tape or Velcro on tr receiver because blemishes from use don't bug me.
 
VLT79 said:
If they are so different from one another...one would question why the Canadian "specials" have "PE" prefix serial numbers like all other semi-auto 55x rifles/carbines. A "CA" or "CAN" prefix serial number would make the 540 theory more believeable!
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If those rifles really were 550's (any variation) they would be prohibited. The 540 was found to be cost prohibitive for Swiss Army issue, and simplified. The simplified version became the 550. Incidently 'PE' is shorthand for 'Personal Rifle' and would be applied to any civillian semi-auto.
 
enefgee said:
If those rifles really were 550's (any variation) they would be prohibited. The 540 was found to be cost prohibitive for Swiss Army issue, and simplified. The simplified version became the 550. Incidently 'PE' is shorthand for 'Personal Rifle' and would be applied to any civillian semi-auto.
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PE stands for Privat Einzelfeuer which directly translated means Private Singlefire. It is the civilian match rifle.
 
enefgee said:
If those rifles really were 550's (any variation) they would be prohibited. The 540 was found to be cost prohibitive for Swiss Army issue, and simplified. The simplified version became the 550. Incidently 'PE' is shorthand for 'Personal Rifle' and would be applied to any civillian semi-auto.
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in short: no. The 540 was developed to keep up to date with modern technology and to gain knowledge. It never was meant to be adopted by the swiss army, which tested it anyway.

Source: the engineer who designed both of them during a tour of the factory collection.
 
Thanks for the correction - I was reading some background material (not Swiss) which suggested complexity and thus cost were issues - I should know better than to read US info about European rifles.
 
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