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Palimino Stripe	Just because everyone loves M95 pics...	Lead	[-]
Posts: 534 (05/23/09 11:56 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None 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) -Palimino
glock40man		#1	[-]
Posts: 189 (05/25/09 12:49 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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.
stantheman1986		#2	[-]
Posts: 5402 (06/02/09 11:49 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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.
bobvonb	my family	#3	[-]
Posts: 5 (06/03/09 01:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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.
7GREEN		#4	[-]
Posts: 598 (06/04/09 10:46 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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.
28 Mosin	Well I'll post mine too then.	#5	[-]
Posts: 974 (08/09/09 07:44 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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
Mountain Doctor		#6	[-]
Posts: 3675 (08/14/09 05:22 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very nice!
Buckeye	a different M 95	#7	[-]
Posts: 1 (08/30/09 02:24 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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 pieces, but I've never seen one by an Austrian Guild maker. This piece is plain enough to be one, but done with tremendous workmanship. Anyone with ideas, I'll send pictures direct.
Et2ss		#8	[-]
Posts: 510 (08/31/09 10:48 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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 www.newphillysports.com
Et2ss		#9	[-]
Posts: 511 (09/03/09 11:17 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sorry it took so long but here is a composite pic of Buckeye's Sporter. NICE LOOKING CARBINE! www.newphillysports.com
Buckeye	Answer from Germany	#10	[-]
Posts: 2 (09/10/09 10:00 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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 alteration of bolt head, extractor and ejector. The acorn-shaped bent bolt handle and the sippling of the receiver, to cover leftover markings, are usual features of the Ferlach conversions. Waidmannsheil! Axel Eichendorff
Et2ss		#11	[-]
Posts: 522 (09/14/09 07:11 AM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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 www.newphillysports.com
Buckeye	Nice M-95	#12	[-]
Posts: 3 (09/14/09 12:40 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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?
Et2ss		#13	[-]
Posts: 524 (09/14/09 10:45 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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 If the moderators feel this is just too much, please remove the pics. I know sporterized weapons aren't well received. But hey It was odd and so am I I promise to compensate when I first get a chance to get pics of my Original 5 Long rifles & various carbines/stutzens in 8 X 50r & 8 X 56r. Also have one that looks like an original carbine but was converted to 2" Shotshell post WWI by the Italians. BTW Palimino that is one good looking Stutzen! www.newphillysports.com Last Edited By: Et2ss 09/14/09 11:01 PM. Edited 4 times.
Buckeye	Now that's a conversion!	#14	[-]
Posts: 4 (09/15/09 07:05 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	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.