1895 Winchester.303

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Re: 1895 Winchester.303

#11 Post by Sim G »

Someone else shooting it, then? You blind old duffer...!
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I must have had my seeing glasses on that day green55
But for a 114 year old rifle it performed flawlessly, although it is a bit spiteful in the recoil department, but now is one of my favourite rifles although I shouldn’t have favourite ;) or jealousy will break out aaarggh
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I also had a 1895 in .303 British from 1904 that I purchased in 2019 and then reluctantly sold just before Christmas in order to aid the funding of an 1895 Russian contract rifle. It was a fantastic shooting gun which I would never had sold had it been a service configuration model that could be quickly loaded with clips.
Managed to get a good score at the running deer with it during the trafalgar meet at Bisley.
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CrumpCP wrote:reluctantly sold just before Christmas in order to aid the funding of an 1895 Russian contract rifle.
Where have you been lucky enough to source a Russian contract gun from?
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#15 Post by snayperskaya »

poll007 wrote:
CrumpCP wrote:reluctantly sold just before Christmas in order to aid the funding of an 1895 Russian contract rifle.
Where have you been lucky enough to source a Russian contract gun from?
They come up for sale in Finland from time to time, nice ones as well
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Finland is the place to look, they pop up there quite often but you just have to soft through the ones that have be sporterised, they also appear on french auctions quite often
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#17 Post by snayperskaya »

CrumpCP wrote:Finland is the place to look, they pop up there quite often but you just have to soft through the ones that have be sporterised, they also appear on french auctions quite often
There is a lot of nice things that pop up in Finland, my all original matching 1917 Remington M91 with a German ersatz bayonet adapter fitted was imported from Finland after it resurfaced.
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