What have I done? My first Swiss K-31...

[paul0660]

nice pictures. I went through 8 k31's before settling on my 1934 and 1952. The 52 has the clamp on scope mount and is 2 moa. The older one has a tag from a guy born in '08.....the one before the last '08. As good as a Swiss watch.........yes.

[Sampachi]

So City Arms has some K-31s? Crap, I'll have to wait till next Saturday to go look at them.
QuarterBoreGunner, I'll lend you my copy of Swiss Magazine Loading Rifles if you want to meet up locally.
I've been wanting to get a K-31 for sometime. I have a Vetterli, but it's more of a black powder rifle than a slick accuracy machine.

[Tanner68]

Shot one of mine today. I cannot believe how good these rifles are. Tagged the sheep at 300 yards at Angeles today 6 for 6 from the sitting position. Handed it to my buddy, and and he went 3 for 3 at 200 yards.

And that GP11 is great stuff too. Hope it comes around again, and at a better price.

[bplvr]

QBG ,
If you want to see how "Swiss Flu " works ,look at the pics Hopi posted .
He has had to sell his furniture to feed his habit . And the really perverse
thing is that we all aspire to be furnitureless. Enjoy your new illness.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

And I haven't even shot the thing yet...*sigh*

[Hopi]

QBG ,
If you want to see how "Swiss Flu " works ,look at the pics Hopi posted .
He has had to sell his furniture to feed his habit . And the really perverse
thing is that we all aspire to be furnitureless. Enjoy your new illness.

QFT.

[SVT-40]

Hopi, great looking bunch of rifles with some REAL fine figure in the wood of some of those!!!

For me the Swedish mania is worse that the Swiss though. I stopped counting my Swedish rifles when I topped forty.

[rogdigity]

lucky bastards... i had to talk 'explain' to my wife how 'i had to have one of each caliber to be a real collector...'. maybe after we move to texas ill be able to call that done and just buy as many as i want! i know i would love to have a few more nagants and mausers. plain and simple, theyre just fun and CHEAP to shoot. hell, i got my K#! yesterday and the only ammo i can find for cheap is privi at AIM surplus. im gonna have to work around the budget this week to get some of that

[Spiggy]

Yep. I would try to call them and verify that it is in stock, but if they've got it...buy it.

Boy, the ammo is getting expensive.....

we're going back to the old days where no one wanted K31s because ammo is difficult to get

[rogdigity]

if the privi could stay at about 50-60 cents a round i could live with that. still cheaper than the 30-06 for the springfield that this k31 is replacing

[Hopi]

I do not yet reload, so besides the GP, I've bee buying Privi and Wolf to build up a brass collection for when I start......

[EastBayRidge]

Grafs has Prvi brass in stock from time to time.

[glennsche]

Hopi

I've got 2 k31s. U have. ... Many many more than 2. Question: what things were u looking for to want so many?or did u just pick one up whenever u saw one? Just curious!

[Hopi]

Hopi

I've got 2 k31s. U have. ... Many many more than 2. Question: what things were u looking for to want so many?or did u just pick one up whenever u saw one? Just curious!

Well, I was able to jump in at the early days of that rifle's market, and after my first one, I was hooked. Why do I have so many..... I attacked from 3 fronts....

First, I was able to scour Big 5's around the state, by proxy or in person, and grabbed some good ones. This was nice because I was able to handle them. I got my 1957 like that.

Second, I would buy bulk orders of 'handpicked' rifles direct from the importers. This was a crapshoot and I got some great ones, but these were mostly investment/flipping rifles.

Third, I obviously had a C and R license, so I bought 2-3 from Allan's and Gunbroker. I got a 1933 like that.


My first priority was good condition and nicely figured (fiddleback, marble, etc) wood as generally that is the hardest to find. The metal/crest condition, which I found that most are fine/pristine, and bore condition, almost always clean and mint, were second priorities. Was always on the lookout for rare years, i.e. '33 and '57.

These things are just ridiculous pieces of machinery.

[rogdigity]

Was always on the lookout for rare years, i.e. '33 and '57.

why are these years rare? and how do you find the years?