Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Buckeye) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:05:12 PST

i'll bet you have one of the only left hand conversions of an M-95. Thanks for the help on these conversions, it is remarkable what a gunsmith can accomplish.

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Et2ss) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:45:58 PST

I have but just for function, never got to seriously play with it for groups. It has a screw in the bottom of the forestock that when turned moves a metal block up or down to adjust tension on the barrel. I bet with the right tweaking it will do quite well as a hunting piece.

I do have another I picked up at a show cheap. It had the barrel cut to a stub & a 1942 Tikka barrel was grafted on to it. The bolt handle was cut off & a "paddle" was added on the left hand side. (I'm a lefty & the price was right so I grabbed it) The action was bedded & the barrel free floated. The bottom of the mag well was 'trapdoored' & clips full of 7,62 X 53r are fed into the bottom, as there are mounts right on top of the receiver. You will have to excuse the crappy cell phone pics

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Buckeye) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:40:23 PST

That looks like it was made out of the artillary or cavalry model with the short barrel. I had one that I lost in a divorce years ago and the muzzel blast was spectacular! The sight set up is similar to what I saw on some WW I Mauser conversions that were done over there between 1920 & 1935. Have you shot this beauty?

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Et2ss) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:11:26 PST

Here's one I picked up some years ago. No rechambering still in 8 X 50r. Don't think it wasdone by a large firm but whoever did it installed a single set trigger. The rear sight is elevation adjustible by a screw that raises an insert in the sight. The makeup remind me of a lot of post WWI European Mauser sporters

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Buckeye) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:00:05 PST

This is of interest since i've seen several posts about M-95 Sporting rifles. This received in response to my questions to the German Gun Collectors Association from a member in Germany:

This rifle was built by Johann Sigott in Ferlach and proofed by the Ferlach proofhouse in July 1941. From 1938 to 1945 Adolf Hitler's homeland Austria was part of his 3rd Reich, hence the post-1940 German proofmarks combined with the Ferlach coat of arms!

Around WWI the Ferlach guntrade put together a lot of hunting rifles on the Mannlicher M95 straight-pull action, usually retaining the protuding Mannlicher magazine. By 1941 actions were in short supply so Sigott used a leftover M95 action to build this rifle. As protuding magazines were outmoded by then, he went some way to convert the action to a flush magazine. He used the rimmed version of the 7x57 Mauser cartridge to avoid complicated...

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Et2ss) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:17:58 PST

Sorry it took so long but here is a composite pic of Buckeye's Sporter.

NICE LOOKING CARBINE!

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Et2ss) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:48:12 PST

Buckeye,

You can send them to my e-mail, it's mail - at - newphillysports - dot - com (remove the dashes, spaces & replace the "dot" & "at" with . & @ )
I will host them & link to this thread for you

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Buckeye) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:24:12 PST

for some reason I can't get this site to download the pictures of this so here's a description:
Model 95 straight pull receiver with no military markings (engraved over receiver only) with a turndown bolt head engraved as an acorn.
Rifle weighs 6.7# with set trigger and magazine that hold 3 rounds (flush with the very slim sporter stock - stock has classic cheek piece and checked on pistol grip only with carved horn cap & buttplate).
Stamp on barrel is "Joh. SiGott Ferlach" ( he was a Ferlach Guild master from about 1900 and disappeared after WW II)
Proof marks are straight wing eagles over N on received & barrel, a straight wing eagle over what appears to be a J and a Ferlach proofs house marking on the barrel along with 741 (July 1941) 7/57R (the cartidge) 9.0 g MC (140 grain jacketed bullet.
I have seen examples of the German Divisions in WW I & WW II having been issued hunting rifles for foragers that are real collectors...

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Mountain Doctor) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:22:23 PST

Very nice!

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (28 Mosin) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:44:59 PST

I'd like to do that, it sounds fun, I should really try it, but the only type around here is Civil War and those rifles can be expensive, and there is no way I'd use originals. Anyway, here's the pics.

Made in 1916 At Steyr

Made in 1917 at Budapest

Made in 1917 at Steyr

All of the are 8x56r

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (7GREEN) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:46:07 PST

Reenacting WWI Austro-Hungarian with a Steyr rechambered to 8x56R? Sounds a little "farby" to me. (Just kidding)
Nice carbine, excellent pictures, reminds me I should learn to post. I have 3 rifles, all original.

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (bobvonb) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:00:31 PST

top is the best and will be the centerpiece of any display

the next two are shooters, one at least to become a 8x56R sporter

the next will be a 256 Mannlicher Scout in short order

and one leftover skin.

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (stantheman1986) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:49:12 PST

I have the nearly identical twin to that rifle, also a Budapest, but yours has a nicer stock and I think mine is stamped Wn18. I'll get a pic up of it when I can. The really blonde wood was the thing that drew me to buy my Buda M95, about 5 years ago. I recently sold my Steyr cut down short rifle, because I have two uncut long rifles and the Budapest is so nice I saw no reason to keep a "shooter" grade cut down Steyr.

Re: Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (glock40man) — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:49:25 PST

Very nice. I hope that some ammo finds it"s way to the market soon.Getting harder to find all the time. Can't help but think that the rooskies or the germans {what was known as east germany}may be sitting on a warehouse full of the stuff. For whatever reason.

Just because everyone loves M95 pics...

feeds@kickapps.com (Palimino Stripe) — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:56:20 PST

Thought I'd show a few pics of my 'new' M95.
Picked up this M95 a while ago. On sale at Big 5 of course
This is the M95 I'm going to reenact (Austro-Hungarian WWI) with...
Kinna nice isn't it?

'Dual' date (1918/1932)