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You should check, though, that it hasn't been rechambered for the 8x56R Hungarian round, after that country split away from the former Empire. With cast bullets you wouldn't want lube grooves or paper patching exposed behind the neck, and grooves exposed in front would have to be carefully protected from dirt or loss of lube. The short neck of the 8x50R isn't the best. 303 being the best starting point, as it was and is frequently done in the UK.īoth are extremely good rifles, without a record of defective manufacture that I know of. I would neck-size as much as I can, and anneal the shoulder now and again. smaller in the shoulder diameter, which might impede chambering, but more likely won't. Just looking at the database in my "Loads from a Disk", the rimmed round seems about. The 6.5x54 is thinner in the neck, different accounts varying as to how much. Have fun.Probably you can, but it would be useful to hear from someone who has done it, exactly how that pans out with the Lee dies. If you don't want to pay $180.00 dollars for the 6.5 Dutch dies, you can use 6,5 x 54 Mannlicher dies fro Lee and form brass from 303 British brass. Lee makes a mold just for it and they usually have the mold in stock.
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They usually will have the 8mm dies and brass. Even in 8X56R, they produce a hard but yet, elegant recoil.Grafs should have just about everything you will need. But the long rifles are a joy to shoot especially in 8X50R. Also true as stated, Long rifles are a bit more scarce due to a large number of them being cut-down to RepetierKarabiner, RepetierStutzen, RepetierKarabinerStutzen or Repetierkarabiner mit Stutzenring length. If the stock was matching, I would have no problems picking it up, but I'm a purist M.95, M.95/30 collector and that mis-matched stock makes it a no go for me personally. Also being non-import marked, $289 is not that bad of a deal. Aside from the lined-out and mis-matched stock, I also see no evidence that's its been through Bulgaria, which would then make this particular piece an M.95/30 and not an M.95/34. The top guard looks like could have been a replacement too. It's been converted to 8X56R, with a mis-matched stock, but a correct unserialzed bolt. I've never heard of problems with barrel warpage in the long rifle.įor the Long rifle in the auction, It's pretty straight forward. What would be your take on this one then? this has been on GB for a while now.įWIW, I've been strictly an M.95 Mannlicher collector for well over a decade, with nearly 60 in the collection most being in the original 8X50R and a good handfull of Long rifles. i did not know that about the barrels having issues, very interesting. As far as C&R rifles go, the price isn't horrible. But if you don't have one, and you find them interesting, I see no reason not to get it for that price. I wouldn't because I already have several carbines and a long rifle version. True carbine rear sight leaves are about half as long as the rifle version.Īgain, as for it being worth $150 for a good one, that is up to you. You can spot the former rifles by their longer rear sight. After WWI, they cut most of the rifle barrels down to Stutzen length at the same time they rechambered them from 8x50R to 8x56R. The long barrels on the 1895 rifles tended to warp, which was great if you wanted to shoot around corners, but not so great if you want the bullets to go where you aim. Or the effects of this on the barrel over time. Nobody had thought about having to shoot hundreds of rounds in a short period of time. They were designed in the 1880s, and upgraded in the 1890s. The barrels were too thin to hold up well to sustained rapid firing. There is a reason that there are so few long rifles around.