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darwinmauser
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Reged: 07/05/07
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Loc: Darwin NT

Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle
01/09/10 10:03 PM

Ok ,I took delivery of the rifle yesterday ,first impressions are that I got what i paid for ,there is light pitting on the exterior surfaces ,nothing to bad ,most all of it would polish out if I refurbished it ,the barrel has pitting on the out side also but not to bad. The rifle appears to be a Greek service rifle that has had the barrel cut back ,it has "Steyr 1914" on the left hand receiver wall but no markings on top of the action ,doesn't look to have been scrubbed .Whoever did the modifications spent some time on it ,they made a spoon bolt handle for it and modified the trigger by cutting and brazing a piece into it to move it back about 1/2 an inch. When I get time I'll photograph the mods and post them here. Internally the barrel has good strong well defined rifling ,a 264 bullet will be a good fit , I don't know where the seller got shiny from ,It may be under all the gunge it's shiny but after scrubbing it with solvent on and off this afternoon there's still black muck coming out. I plan on having a test shoot tomorrow afternoon but finding ammunition or even unprimed cases is a bit of a problem ,I have found some Norma cases but I'd have to sell a kidney to be able to afford them. For the moment I'm using Carcano cases ,they're not perfect but they'll do till I can conger up some proper ones .

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Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	darwinmauser	24/07/10 04:49 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	NitroX	24/07/10 07:15 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	darwinmauser	24/07/10 08:00 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	NitroX	24/07/10 08:05 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	darwinmauser	24/07/10 08:20 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	darwinmauser	01/09/10 10:03 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	RigbyUser	04/09/10 10:07 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	Ben	24/07/10 05:28 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	Mike_Bailey	24/07/10 06:30 PM
Re: Steyr 1914, 6.5 x 54, rifle	darwinmauser	24/07/10 06:44 PM

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