Anything I need to know about my K31 ?

**Roofuss** · 02-02-2014 06:02 PM

I just purchased a WW II era { 1944 } K31 with a very good bore {.752 } 75% finish, and walnut wood .
Is there ANYTHING I need to look for with a Swiss icon

K31 of this vintage before shooting it ?
As always, I will have my local " smithy " check it out before hand .

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**CODFan** · 02-02-2014 07:17 PM

You may want to looks at this:

Slim chance, but ....

K31 accident...SAFETY CHECKS... in Straight-Pull Rifles Forum

**Aragorn243** · 02-03-2014 10:14 AM

You probably know more about it than your local smithy so just a word of caution on that.

Not a whole lot of problems with these other than what was posted above. One batch of bad rods.

**Trajan98** · 02-03-2014 02:22 PM

Open the butt plate. The last soldier the rifle was issued to put his name, rank, unit, and home address in it. My K-31 had the information and courtesy of Swiss icon

phone books on-line, I found the soldier my K-31 was issued to in 1947. He was still alive and I mailed him a 100yd target I put a nice five shot group into.

**Roofuss** · 02-05-2014 04:44 AM

Just curious, did that soldier reply back ? I take delivery tomorrow , can not wait

**Trajan98** · 02-05-2014 09:33 AM

Still hoping to hear from him. I sent it to him before Christmas, perhaps the mail is slow.

**Roofuss** · 02-05-2014 07:41 PM

Sure would be interesting to see / hear his reaction ?

**Roofuss** · 02-06-2014 04:32 PM

Just got my K31 in today, she does have a "troop tag " and am trying to figure it out . Managed to get a little of it, but some numbers/words are not showing up on the Swiss icon

rifles website "decipher" page .

**Latigo** · 02-06-2014 04:59 PM

Roofus, when you post these same questions all over the place, get answers and then ask the same things over again, same responses all over again it makes some of us wonder why we're wasting our time.

**Roofuss** · 02-06-2014 05:10 PM

Sorry, not wasting any ones time, including MINE !

Just looking for other peoples opinions who might NOT attend other forums. I'm sure this isn't the first time a newbie like myself has inquired about info on more than one forum !

PS : Many times I just get very vague replies ,at best ,on these sites !!

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