SAMCO 1916 #2

This is the 2nd Spanish 1916 I picked up last week. 7MM. It cleaned up nicer than the first one I bought. I thought I had an issue in that it would not fire. After taking the bolt apart again and giving it an all day soaking, then cleaning the inside with a drill and brush...it now fires.

It is a 1924 marked rifle with a nice bore and no pitting or rust was under the cosmoline. All numbers match with the last 3 digits being on the small parts, except the bolt.

Last pic is of both rifles.

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Really nice job on the clean up. There are still some good examples of these out here, just takes a bit of searching to find them.

Wow, those are the best ones I have seen in a long time. Most of the M1916's for sale these days seem to be pure junk.

I bought one in the 1980's. It is 2Z4132. All matching numbers.

I recently put it in a new stock (for a bunch of reasons). The old stock and hardware are still collecting dust and I need to get rid of it all. You can have them for the cost of shipping if you wish.

Send me a PM and we can figure it out.

I will post some pics of my rifle under a new thread, before and after pics, so you can see the old stock and hdw I am disposing of.

I've been trying to find one of those for my son-in-law for the past couple of months. Finally found a batch of them for $99 at Oaks this weekend but they were so bad we just couldn't pull the trigger. I found one that had a complete un-cracked stock, a fair bore and a crest but he couldn't make up his mind since it was still early. So I set it back knowing it probably wouldn't be there later and it wasn't. The rest were basically garbage. Any with good bores had badly damaged stocks, any with nicer stocks had poor bores or deep pitting at the wood line. I told him this batch must have been from the bottom of the bottom barrel. He just wanted something to play around with and get some experience with but really not much point putting a whole lot of money into something that is never going to be worth much. I'm steering him towards a Swedish 96 or a Swiss K31 now but prices have skyrocketed on both.

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Originally Posted by Aragorn243

I've been trying to find one of those for my son-in-law for the past couple of months. Finally found a batch of them for $99 at Oaks this weekend but they were so bad we just couldn't pull the trigger. ... He just wanted something to play around with and get some experience with but really not much point putting a whole lot of money into something that is never going to be worth much..

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Even a couple of years ago good ones were going for $200 to $300. Maybe a little patience on the gun-for-sale websites will pay off. I am into mine for about $600 now. Had it for 30+ years but recently refurbished it. I did not do a mil-resto. It was not a good candidate for that. And all I wanted was a good shooter to tinker with.

Before:
https://www.milsurps.com/vbpgimage.p...1&d=1490562917

After:
https://www.milsurps.com/vbpgimage.p...3&d=1490563206

When I saw in college in the late 1960's these rifles were $4.99 plus shipping. A guy in Selma, AL sold them in boxes of 5. I had a buddy who bought piles and found one decent bore. Years ago!

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Originally Posted by Calif-Steve

When I saw in college in the late 1960's these rifles were $4.99 plus shipping. A guy in Selma, AL sold them in boxes of 5. I had a buddy who bought piles and found one decent bore. Years ago!

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I must have gotten lucky. The bore in my rifle is in fantastic condition. When I refurbished the rifle last year I floated the barrel in the new stock and bedded the action as well. Here is a pic with Federal XM80 white box mil surp ammo:

https://www.milsurps.com/vbpgimage.p...4&d=1491191285