A Couple of Vetterli's

The country that avoids war and the country that fights but has a hard time winning have been combined. The Swiss made some excellent firearms and the French made some unique and occasionally inspiring ones. We have added the Belgian and Dutch since they are neighbors.

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A Couple of Vetterli's

Post by wkato » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:22 pm

Haven't been here in a little while so figured I might do some catching up.

Picked this Vetterli up with in the last year. Had to have her due to the tiger stripe in the butt stock. Bore was shiney and clean and the rifle had every thing but the cleaning rod. That problem was solved by a good friend. Czech is credited with the reproduction sling and is making a frog and scabbord for the bayonet.

After I first received it.

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Added the sling and cleaning rod

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Different thing here is that the 69/71 receivers are in the white and this one shows an old blued finish.

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Picked up this M78/81 just a couple of weeks ago. She is all matching and solid as the 69/71. Couple of minor things to fix on her but will give me something to do. Lifter arm spring is broke and rear sight is bent, parts in route.

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This one had the extra firing pin under the butt plate.

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Post by LoLo25643 » Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:45 am

Hey wkato, look at the serial numbers on this one.

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Thought it was interesting.

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Your Vett's

Post by jd46561 » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:07 am

Very nice looking rifles. Wow!
K31..aw, hell ya!!!!!!!!
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LoLo

Post by wkato » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:57 pm

WOW that is amazing! One of us need to sale to the other! Which will it be? :lol:

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Post by LoLo25643 » Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:19 am

:mrgreen:
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Post by RGRWJB » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:02 pm

very nice looking gun!!
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Post by Dutch Mosin » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:17 am

I bought my Vetterli M81 about 1½ years ago.

It is one of my favorite rifles.

I bought it from a collector and had it transformed to CF by a gunsmith.

This gunsmith also sold me some of his 10.4x42R cases (reformed from .348 Winchester).

I only shoot BP in my Vetterli. so I have no need for a die set.

The powder I use is German WANO PP (38gn) and to fill the airgap between the bullet and the powder I use cous-cous.

I cast the bullets myself using a LEE mold bought from Guisan.

The mold is made after the specifications of the original bullet.

I tried both the flat base (345gn) and hollow base (320gn) bullets and found out that the hollow based ones were more accurate.

COL of the bullet is 62.8mm/2.47"

With this Vetterli came an original Swiss cleaning set.

Here are some pictures.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Martin
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10.4x42R cases and casted bullet
10.4x42R cases and casted bullet
M81 Li zijkant .jpg
zijkant magazijn.jpg
Vetterli cleaning set
Vetterli cleaning set
Vetterli M81 rear sight
Vetterli M81 rear sight
Vetterli M81.jpg
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Post by RGRWJB » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:12 pm

Very Nice Martin!
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Post by LoLo25643 » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:52 pm

These Vetterli's are easily my favorite turnbolt guns to shoot. :D
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