M 11 Swiss strait pull rifle

[selig]

I recently bought this cool rifle and am wondering what the milled grooves are for on top of the receiver? Thanks

 

[Nabs]

Weight savings ? My 1889 has them as well.

 

[Eaglelord17]

All my Schmidt-Rubins have it so I am going to guess weight savings or cost savings as they can reuse that metal.

 

[stripperclipper]

Speed holes.
Make the gun shoot faster.

 

[577/450]

do not shoot modern ammo in that rifle look up specs for that gun

 

[Nabs]

If she is an unmodified Schmidt rubin M1911, I don't believe GP11 will be an issue in her.

 

[gewehr76]

If its K11 its ok for GP11

 

[Eaglelord17]

That is either a G/I.G. 1911 or G/I.G. 96/11 (need to see the stock or the serial number to properly identify). Both are safe for shooting GP11 (aka modern) Swiss ammo.

The only two rifles there is really a possibility to find that can't shoot GP 11 is the G/I.G. 1889 or the K1893. And even then the G/I.G. 1889 was allowed to use GP 11 in case of emergency such as a invasion and no GP 90 was around (still not recommended to be shot with GP 11 the Swiss didn't do it as there never was a invasion and it is potentially very unsafe). The argument could also be made for a K1893 to shoot GP 11 as well (I feel they could have easily adapted the K1893 into a K1893/11 but since they hated that rifle I can understand why they didn't), as the action is based on the Steyr M90 action which was successfully adapted to 8x56r which is quite a powerful round. In both cases it is unsafe to shoot GP 11 through them but it is possibly worth having a discussion on the merits of the K1893 action for shooting GP11.

 

[sail32]

GP-11 was developed with the Schmidt-Rubin 1911 Rifle.

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[zuke]

That's an 96/11

 

[selig]

I did a serial # search and it came up as a d.o.m. 1917, Infanterie Gewehr 11.