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This provides an excellent sight picture, especially compared to the indifferent triangular pointed front sights on many Mauser variants.

The front sight blade is carefully squared off, and tapered to be widest at the rear.

Swiss M96/11 muzzle – note barrel sleeve and recessed crown It’s not free-floated, but it’s getting close. This isolates the barrel from pressure from the stock.

The barrel is encircled by a metal tube under the front barrel band.

The muzzle has a recessed crown to protect it from damage.

The Model 1889 had some of these, but the 96/11 really shines. In addition to striking me as a very sleek and attractive looking rifle, it has several subtle features showing that its designers were very familiar with the needs of a serious precision shooter. In addition to the new barrel, the conversion replaced the magazine with a new 6-round detachable type, added a semi-pistol grip to the stock, and replaced the sights. A great many were subsequently converted into the 96/11 pattern. Many of the Model 1889 rifles had already been strengthened in 1896īy moving their locking lugs up closer to the chamber, and it was determined that a simple rebarreling would allow them to shoot the new cartridge. The Swiss military realized the ballistic deficiency of the round-nose GP90, and developed a smokeless powder, higher pressure, spitzer-bullet cartridge in 1911.

The second rifle I got is an 1896/11 model, which is the peak of the design from a precision shooter’s perspective (I think). The magazine was permanently attached, with a lever allowing it to be dropped just below the line of the bolt, to act as a reserve while the rifle was fired as a single-shot. It uses a heavy round-nose 7.5mm bullet, pushed at relatively low velocity by modern standards. The 1889 has a 12-round magazine and used a semi-smokeless cartridge, the GP90 (GP 1890, not to be confused with the 5.56mm GP 1990). The first is a Gewehr 1889 – the rifle that replaced the turnbolt Vetterli rifle. The four I picked out were a pretty good overview of how the design evolved. The Swiss, of course, have always taken national defense and neutrality pretty seriously, and I’ve been wanting to add some of their rifles to my personal collection. The Swiss used an evolving series of straight-pull rifles and carbines from 1889 into the 1970s, when the last K31 carbines were finally retired from service. I recently picked up several Swiss rifles from Simpson Ltd (who has a who bunch of them, and all listed individually so you can choose the exact rifle you want).