I'm in Canada and find myself coming back to this sight again and again for classic rifle research.
I found this M-88 sporter done by V. Chr. Schilling, Suhl a few months ago. When I bought it, someone had broken and repaired the stock using body filler, brown paint, and birch...which is unacceptable completely. The front action screw and escutcheon are also missing.
It's a neat little rifle, and the metal is in great shape with a bright bore and the numbers all match. I faux-repaired the birch patch by cutting it out and fitting in a walnut piece, mostly to provide a base to build up the stock with bondo before using it as a copying blank. But before I do that, is there anyone in the world with parts for these old rifles, or is it all a from scratch thing?
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you are in the wrong forum but we are tolerant,the M 88 rifle belongs into the Mannlicher Forum. the front action screw must be the same as used in military rifles just with a decent engraving original. anyway, just take a military rifle screw. if you cant find it in canada I know this firm ship worldwide and they speaking english. http://www.historica-shop.eu/Ersatzteile...kurz-f-G88.html must be the "Systemschraube kurz" so simply send an e-mail.
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well, its an old question with M 88 commission rifles... the bolt action is in fact a modified Mauser 71 action but the Mannlicher Patent magazine makes it a Mannlicher too. The Mannlicher Schönauer is so not a Mannlicher because this rifle combine a modified M 88 action with the Schönauer magazine. I think there is not a single design element that comes from the hands of Mannlicher in this rifle but it was made in the Steyr Factory. Good part of M 88 rifles were made also in Steyr for using the Mannlicher magazine patent hold by the Steyr factory than.
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