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Old 08-21-2006, 07:19 PM   #1
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Had to go and buy another K31. Its your fault, my ol lady is looking for you!. Its a 52.... with matching #s, Said it had good wood, and 75% on bluing, Ill post pics when it arrives. I have been told that there will be no more coming into the US. Or rather no more exported from Switzerland.

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Don't worry a bit. I'll just turn on the old charm and she'll forget why she came.
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Old 08-22-2006, 03:38 PM   #3
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One of my Gun shops has 3-4 on sale for $200.00 or less.
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I really like the K31. Just something about it. Dunham's carried them on sale for 99.00. Seen one the other day there that had a better than average stock, but no matching mag. The other one was beat. Passed on both.
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I got another from Centerfire last week. Pretty good bluing overall and a slightly better than average walnut stock. All matching, 1944 dated, and of course, a perfect mirror bore.
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That's one thing about the Swiss. They took care of the bore of the rifle.
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That's one thing about the Swiss. They took care of the bore of the rifle.
Pogo, this is an excerpt from one of my archives.
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So your rifle came to you in the usual condition of the k31. Stock a bit beat up but with most of the metal finish intact and sharp, shiney lands and grooves, and you intend to keep it that way.
Stop and think about this. The rifle came to you in the condition in which the Swiss soldier and Armoury kept it for many years. Is it not then a reasonable assumption that you'd follow the same maintenance ritual that has kept it in that condition for so many years? Maybe, but the average American shooter believes strongly in all of the advertising hype and testimonials to a myriad of maintenance products deemed absolutely necessary to keep a rifle as pristine as possible, few of which are factually relevant to the k31 barrel.

The Armoury and the well instructed Swiss soldier used a product called Waffenfett, and later Automattenfett or weapon grease. A close and reasonable approximation in the US is Lubriplate 930. The barrel is swabbed with 930, running a patch back and forth followed by a dry patch. At the end of the shooting session while the barrel is still hot or warm, the lubriplate is worked back into the barrel and left that way until the next shooting session when a dry patch is run back through removing the excess lubriplate. That's it. If carbon in the throat and chamber become an issue from firing reloads, use a good carbon remover such as Montana Extreme, but leave the bore alone. It is a fact that excessive bore cleaning with brushes can and will shorten your barrel life.

If, by shooting reloaded cartridges utilizing copper jacketed projectiles, your bore shows copper fouling, use a product such as WipeOut to remove it. This kind of a product fulfills it's task without continual scrubbing of the bore.

This may sound like an overly simple approach, and the typical US shooter is usually a ready recipient of industry marketing efforts and barrel maintenance, but use this logic. My 50+ year old rifle came to me with a truly amazing bore. Why would I not then follow the maintenance practices of the Armoury and Soldier that delivered it to me in this condition?
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