GatorFarmer
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Trade a K-31 for a Marlin Guide Gun - y/n?&what about this other straight pull M95...
So... I ended up with an instant collection of milslurps again. A friend of mine is a Marine armorer and is laid up from a leg surgery. He's long wanted a customized Ruger single action that I have (with S. African buffalo horn grips), but never had anything to trade for it.
Anyway, since he won't be riding it for a while, he traded his old dirt bike for someone's else assortment of old rifles. Which I then ended up with in trade for the Ruger (since he can at least shoot a handgun while he heals up).
I ended up with an Albanian SKS, a Budapest made M95 carbine in 8x56R with 20rds on chargers (old Nazi marked ammo), and a rather nice Swiss K-31 with 50rds of Swiss surplus.
Having no use for any of these really, I promptly asked another friend if he wanted an Albanian SKS (I knew that he had had one before.) Found that a home. Then talking it over we discussed trading my Swiss rifle and its ammo for his unfired, unused .45-70 Guide Gun (which I'd never use either probably, but it amuses my wife to have a big bore owing to her fear of large man eating feral hogs...).
I never paid any attention to these rifles when they were more commonly to be had. I already checked and mine lacks the ID paper under the buttplate. This one actually has nice wood, I understand most do not, and the metal and bore are pristine.
I don't really want another oddball caliber, but I have to admit that the rifle does balance well and I know that they have a reputation for accuracy.
Is the K-31 something that is worth hanging on to and stocking another caliber, or should I just turn it into a fine piece of protection from errant man eating hogs? (I've come close to buying a Guide Gun several times, and this one is the easier to find .45-70 chambering.)
Yeah I don't know what to do with the Budapest made 95 straight pull carbine either. The wood was refinished at the arsenal, it has the "other" kind of rear sight - the one not in meters but in shritts or whatever it is - that the Bulgarians liked. Does anyone even make a scope mount for these? I know that Prvi sells the ammo under their own name, and Hornady also sells it. Ergonomics on it make my Carcanos seem refined though. My first thought was to have it Duracoated black, stick a flashhider on it, and try to rig up some kind of scout mount to which I'd attach one of the cheap (but supposedly functional) Centerpoint red dots from Wallyworld. (Oh, and a recoil pad. Yeah, I had one of these before...)
So... I ended up with an instant collection of milslurps again. A friend of mine is a Marine armorer and is laid up from a leg surgery. He's long wanted a customized Ruger single action that I have (with S. African buffalo horn grips), but never had anything to trade for it.
Anyway, since he won't be riding it for a while, he traded his old dirt bike for someone's else assortment of old rifles. Which I then ended up with in trade for the Ruger (since he can at least shoot a handgun while he heals up).
I ended up with an Albanian SKS, a Budapest made M95 carbine in 8x56R with 20rds on chargers (old Nazi marked ammo), and a rather nice Swiss K-31 with 50rds of Swiss surplus.
Having no use for any of these really, I promptly asked another friend if he wanted an Albanian SKS (I knew that he had had one before.) Found that a home. Then talking it over we discussed trading my Swiss rifle and its ammo for his unfired, unused .45-70 Guide Gun (which I'd never use either probably, but it amuses my wife to have a big bore owing to her fear of large man eating feral hogs...).
I never paid any attention to these rifles when they were more commonly to be had. I already checked and mine lacks the ID paper under the buttplate. This one actually has nice wood, I understand most do not, and the metal and bore are pristine.
I don't really want another oddball caliber, but I have to admit that the rifle does balance well and I know that they have a reputation for accuracy.
Is the K-31 something that is worth hanging on to and stocking another caliber, or should I just turn it into a fine piece of protection from errant man eating hogs? (I've come close to buying a Guide Gun several times, and this one is the easier to find .45-70 chambering.)
Yeah I don't know what to do with the Budapest made 95 straight pull carbine either. The wood was refinished at the arsenal, it has the "other" kind of rear sight - the one not in meters but in shritts or whatever it is - that the Bulgarians liked. Does anyone even make a scope mount for these? I know that Prvi sells the ammo under their own name, and Hornady also sells it. Ergonomics on it make my Carcanos seem refined though. My first thought was to have it Duracoated black, stick a flashhider on it, and try to rig up some kind of scout mount to which I'd attach one of the cheap (but supposedly functional) Centerpoint red dots from Wallyworld. (Oh, and a recoil pad. Yeah, I had one of these before...)
