K31 tag and cleaning questions

St Pauli

St Pauli

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First off the tag
It reads
750***
FUS. Von Allmen
Hans Wangen. B.O.
Fus.Kp. II (Roman two not double I ) 40

Secondly I can't find any info on cleaning, greasing with Swiss issue cleaning kit.

I've searched youtube and did a google search nothing...

I've found some info but only not anything detailed or a manual.
From what I have found I know the rifles were shot greased when barrel still warm, cleaned once at home and bolt greased.
no grease to be used in the field.

That is about all I have been able to find.

Also I picked up a Swiss kit from Tradex complete with grease cans. Is this the correct grease for a K31?

Cheers
 
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Might as well do a plug for a fellow Canadian Swiss Rifle Club :)

Yes we do try to clean the copper and carbon once a year. Otherwise it's de-grease, shoot, re-grease and store till next shoot.
 
Re tag;
http://www.swissrifles.com/sr/tags/

Switzerland
Line infantry soldiers of the lowest rank in the Swiss Army have historically been designated as fusiliers. Because the modern Swiss infantry soldier is trained in a much broader variety of tasks than his historical counterpart and because of some negative connotations attached to the term "Füsiliere", modern infantry battalions of the Swiss army have been renamed "Infanteriebataillone" or "Inf Bat".[16] The individual soldiers are officially called "Infanteristen", not "Füsiliere" but colloquially they are still referred to as "Füsiliere" or "Füsle". This meaning is retained in the name of the 1938 Swiss film Fusilier Wipf.
 
Yes 1943 Manufacture.
Stocks were dated(Dec 1942 in your rifles case), THEN left to dry. Always an earlier date than the rifle.
Serial Numbers added to stock when rifle was assembled
 
Slight hi-jack here but since we are talking soldiers tags on K-31's I tried looking mine up but couldnt figure it all out. Also some very fine hand writing makes it hard to make out at times.

Hofmann Werner
Motfz. Lag. Kp II/133
HINWIL unl Balmhoph

On the back: 61 81 29
 
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