Steyr M95M Restoration

[Aragorn243]

I picked this up reasonably at my local gun auction today. Had hoped to get it for a little less but got carried away. Bore has strong rifling but is pretty dark.

Stock is basically worthless but the important parts of the rifle are intact. It has the fixed clip and it has an unbroken extractor.

This is as purchased:





Would have been a beautiful stock if Bubba had left it alone. Exposed metal shows some wear:



Some internals of the fixed clip. It does come out, just slides out when not in the stock:









And the extractor. This type must pick up the cartridge from the magazine or there is great risk to breakage. Cannot load the shell by hand into the chamber:



I had the incredible dumb luck to buy a stock out of a junk bin about 5 years ago for a sling swivel. Just tossed the stock in my attic stairwell and it's been there ever since. I had a sneaky suspicion it was a Steyr straight pull stock but never fully verified this. Pulled it out today and perfect fit:





Today I was able to locate a stock sling swivel and installed it. Also swapped out the original butt plate from the new purchase. Parts for these are not easy to come by but they do match or closely match other rifles. The rear sight, sight screw are the same as that on the M24, 24/47 and even the M48. The rear band spring is similar to that on the 24/47. I have these three parts on order from Numrich. Handguard probably impossible to find but they are a two piece. The rear portion is pretty standard for Mausers and I fit a Turk Mauser guard to check and then ordered one. The forward portion of the handguard is the remains of the original Steyr 95 guard. As I have a long rifle with a busted handguard that color matches this stock, I purchased a new long rifle handguard for that rifle and I'll cut the handguard from it to match this one. Barrel bands are a little tougher but I have located one of them.

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