"New" 96/11's

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What always irritates me about such texts as " Should clean to better" is: why didn't the seller clean it himself? I have a nasty suspicious mind about auction texts, and a "should" means that the seller is providing hope, not facts. If I sell a rifle, you may be sure that the bore is as clean as anyone is ever going to get it without recutting the rifling, I would not have kept it in a dirty condition, neither did the Swiss.

Likewise the favorite auctioneer's description "dark bore". If a bore is dark, it is either because the seller is bone idle (bad indication for the general condition of the rifle) and the bore is filthy, or it is rusted (even worse). Why are sellers so lazy - or devious?

Please forgive me my little rant. I think you have got two good rifles, and the bores really will clean up "to better". The typical Schmidt Rubin has an excellent bore, and will outshoot most other milsurps with open sights.

Turned out to be grease in the barrel. The Swiss owner probably left it as he was trained...with a light coat of grease and the auction house didn't feel like cleaning it out. Both bores were excellent.

I was able to pick up my new Swiss rifles this morning and got a couple of close ups of the metal and wood. One of them appears to have had a barrel replacement at one time. That one also has an odd, shield-shaped stamping on the tang. Bores on all of them are superb...of course.

Here is a better shot of the serial number on the barrel:


Appears to be a handstamping.

Here is a stamping on the tang:


It appears to be an "H" or something similar

There is a large circle "B" on the butt of the stock


Bore is excellent!

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I got a quick trip to the Lincoln range in yesterday and shot the newest Swiss and Swede rifles.

96/11 #229113 ...the one with the replacement barrel is a smoking hot shooter.

After verifying that the front sight was set correctly for windage @ 50 yards, I tried a few 5 shot groups @ 100 yards.

The first one with GP11...


It looked pretty good, so I tried a second GP11 group...


I really liked these groups, so I tried a group with my handload...43.9 grains of IMR4064 and a 168 gr AMAX...


I think this is my new favorite Swiss rifle.

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96/11 #313237 was a bit of a disappointment. The best GP11 group that I could muster @ 100 yards was this one...



I didn't have anymore of my reloads, so I wasn't able to try them in this one. A little odd, because this bore looks to be at least as good as the bore in the other 96/11. I guess it could be an issue unrelated to the bore. I may take it apart and make sure there isn't something in the barrel channel, etc that is interfering with the accuracy.