Happy New Year to all Swiss guns fanatics !...

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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Happy New Year to all Swiss guns fanatics !...

Post by Guisan » Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:23 pm

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:16 pm

That last one MUST BE the Gnomes of Zurich :shock: :shock:
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Post by Niner » Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:36 pm

Gnomes, or that must have been a really long field exercise.

What kind of rifle does that soldier have in the photo with the rope?
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Post by Guisan » Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:54 pm

Well it seems a well known Swiss straight pull to me...

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Post by Niner » Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:42 pm

It would just about have to be....but the bolt handle looks like it has round knob on the end. I must be imagining things. :loco:
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Post by DuncaninFrance » Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:55 pm

Looks like a bolt action rifle to me Robert and not a straight pull. :roll: :roll: :roll:
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Post by Guisan » Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:49 am

And a Swiss straight pull it is in 7.5 GP90, first introduced in 1893 and first made by SIG and later by W+F.

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Post by DuncaninFrance » Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:58 am

We live and learn - well some of us do ;)
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Post by Guisan » Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:18 pm

Well I was just checking how well my older posts here are being read LOL...

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Post by Niner » Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:17 pm

Ok.....so I have a short memory. :bigsmile:

Just saw a Swiss Mannlicher 1893 advertised by a dealer online for $1695. That's about ten times what I paid for my K31 a couple or three years ago. That guy in the photo must have been a new guy and gotten the last choice rifle instead of one of the newer up to date models. :lol:
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