K-31 Conversion

[Johnny_Canuck]

I currently have access to a scmidt rubin K-31 swiss rifle. It is chambered in 7.5X55. The action is beautiful and in pristine condition, the barrel and stock however are another matter. The stock has seen better days and the barrel has suffered at the hands of mercuric primers. I am planning to rebarrel and rechamber for 6.5x55 due to a greater accessability of ammo and as a project rifle. Just wondering if anyone out there has done anything similar or has any interesting comments. Hopefully at the end of this i will have a good little brush gun.

 

[Hitzy]

Swiss never used corrosive primers. Rebarreling from a blank isn't easy, lots of cuts on the breechface of the barrel. There is a guy in the US that does conversions but it involves making a collet out of the existing 7.5 barrel's chamber K31 re-barrel
Loading for the 7.5x55 is very easy, .284 winchester brass is used and standard .308 bullets.

 

[diopter]

K31 barrel shank:

Your better off to reload 7.5 x55.

 

[diopter]

Btw:

Usually K31 barrels are in decent shape. Try cleaning it properly, you might be surprised to see what's actually under a few decades of grime. It just depends on who had it between the time it left military sevice till now.