• K31 Rifle Manufacturing at Waffenfabrik Bern

    K31 Rifle Manufacturing at Waffenfabrik Bern

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    (LEFT PIC) Inspection (and approval) of parts at Waffenfabrik Bern.
    (RIGHT PIC) Notice the barrels at the left and the stocks at the right.


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    (LEFT PIC) Straightening a barrel.
    (RIGHT PIC) Making a stock fit to an action.


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    (LEFT PIC) Shooting K31's from a machine to test their precision and to set the sights.
    (RIGHT PIC) The test machine.
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    1. Pics are of Waffenfabrik Bern and come from book one of the 1955 first edition of "Das Schiesswesen in der Schweiz". The pics are reproduced here with the kind permission of "Guisan" from a thread in the Staight-Pull forums on Swissrifles.com. (Feedback by "Badger")
    This article was originally published in forum thread: K31 Rifle Manufacturing at Waffenfabrik Bern started by Badger View original post
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    1. Kiverson's Avatar
      Love these sort of photos, it's so interesting to see how the rifles were made.
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