Looking for information on beautiful Steyr M95

[Eaglelord17]

A couple other little bits of advice is to use grease inside the bolt, not oil (I generally grease the inside of the bolt and use CLP on the outside in the action).

If the bolt is hard to work disassemble it and don't thread in the firing pin spring retaining nut all the way (leave it a half turn or full turn from completely tight). My M95 was absolutely terrible to try and cock, now it isn't bad (still could be better but its not anywhere near as bad as it was).

For shooting remember the rear sight is in Schritt which equates to about .75-.80 Metres. The battle sight (ladder folded down) is 500 Schritt or about 375 Metres. When the ladder sight is raised up the minimum setting is 300 Schritt or about 225 Metres (you have to raise the slider to see this setting). What this means is if you have ammo loaded exactly the same as Patrone M1893, that is where the sights will be. That being said odds are you will have to play around a bit with whatever ammo you end up with to find the proper setting and where to aim. It also means generally you will be shooting high (expecially if you shoot a lighter bullet, as that is supposed to be 225 Metres with a 250grn bullet).

The bores are in the .329-.330 depth range, and the original .323 bullet had a skirt on the base which was supposed to expand into the grooves. When shooting my M95 .323 bullets only lightly get pressed into the grooves, and key hole and tumble etc. (though generally they are still within a 10 inch group at 100m). The much larger bore was addressed with the later 8x56r round, which had a .329 bullet.

Overall they are cool guns, I know I tend to be attracted to anything Mannlicher, but I seem to be the minority. To each their own.

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A couple other little bits of advice is to use grease inside the bolt, not oil (I generally grease the inside of the bolt and use CLP on the outside in the action).

If the bolt is hard to work disassemble it and don't thread in the firing pin spring retaining nut all the way (leave it a half turn or full turn from completely tight). My M95 was absolutely terrible to try and cock, now it isn't bad (still could be better but its not anywhere near as bad as it was).

For shooting remember the rear sight is in Schritt which equates to about .75-.80 Metres. The battle sight (ladder folded down) is 500 Schritt or about 375 Metres. When the ladder sight is raised up the minimum setting is 300 Schritt or about 225 Metres (you have to raise the slider to see this setting). What this means is if you have ammo loaded exactly the same as Patrone M1893, that is where the sights will be. That being said odds are you will have to play around a bit with whatever ammo you end up with to find the proper setting and where to aim. It also means generally you will be shooting high (expecially if you shoot a lighter bullet, as that is supposed to be 225 Metres with a 250grn bullet).

The bores are in the .329-.330 depth range, and the original .323 bullet had a skirt on the base which was supposed to expand into the grooves. When shooting my M95 .323 bullets only lightly get pressed into the grooves, and key hole and tumble etc. (though generally they are still within a 10 inch group at 100m). The much larger bore was addressed with the later 8x56r round, which had a .329 bullet.

Overall they are cool guns, I know I tend to be attracted to anything Mannlicher, but I seem to be the minority. To each their own.

I enjoy it because it has pretty much nothing in common with any of my other rifles. Its weird and unique, so I like it. Thanks for the tips my friend, you are awesome.