For everyone’s edification, I believe the clips can be 3D printed now. The original ones are kinda flimsy, limited reuses and they don’t make em anymore AFAIK. Once the surplus GP11 dries up…
I really respect my swiss brothers for creating a so smooth action. Only atvantage in my opinion of the m95 is the reloading clip (and his historical character) .
Of all my WWII milsurp, my K-31 is the highest quality. It helps said quality when your country isn't actually fighting in said war. Absolute tack driver though.
I have to admit that the swiss and the Swedish have been militarily ahead of most countries even though they haven't participated in a war for a long time
I think you just mentioned the reason as to why; they've managed to avoid fighting in two world wars, where mass-production and availability often came at the cost of innovation. The Mosin-Nagant, for example, was upgraded in 1913 (to the "Mosin-Kholodovskii"), but these rifles were never really produced in significant quantities because the Russian imperial army needed millions of the tried and tested Mosin-Nagants "yesterday", and settled for the older models instead.
You have to imagine that Swiss soldiers could keep that gun after their compulsory military service of one year, as well as 50 rounds of ammunition and three grenades as well as their uniform, so that in case of war, they would be combat ready. By the way the riffle was replaced as service weapon in 1958 by the SIG SG 510, which was later in 1990 replaced by the SIG SG 550, and while the grenades weren’t given home anymore since the 70s, the 50 rounds, called Taschenmunition were still given out until 2007.
I am a Mauser collector. I am an American of Swiss Ancestry. I realize these rifles are of excellent quality and are very accurate. I never bought one because my personal opinion is they are very ugly and over engineered. I have researched the history of Swiss firearms during the 1860+ cartridge era and was astounded by what they finally settled for after testing so many different black powder cartridge firearms. It was a rimfire instead of a centerfire cartridge for the Swiss Vetterli rifle which in my personal opinion was also extremely ugly. They always seem to pick something totally different from what has been tested, tried, and true by many other countries. This is only my personal opinion, and I am very prejudiced toward Remington Rolling Blocks, Finnish Mosins, Swedish Mausers, German Mausers, and Argentine RRBs, and Mausers. I completely understand that many people love the K11 and K31. I am jst not one of them. I do own an exquisite Swiss bayonet for the above rifles, that I hold in high regard.
