What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
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Re: What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
I'm not sure, tekkernikkerly speaking, strength is related to size. It's more a material thing: for example, a small steel ring would be far stronger than a large ring made of marzipan. The Swedes have rather a good reputation where metallurgy is concerned, so I wouldn't be unduly worried that their steel composition, heat treatment and machining procedures were inferior to those of, say, the Germans... Quite the contrary in fact.
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Re: What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
The Germans brokered a deal with Sweden where they swapped german optics for Swedish steel, the optics went onto the Swedish Mauser snipers and the steel, well that is anyones guess...meles meles wrote:I'm not sure, tekkernikkerly speaking, strength is related to size. It's more a material thing: for example, a small steel ring would be far stronger than a large ring made of marzipan. The Swedes have rather a good reputation where metallurgy is concerned, so I wouldn't be unduly worried that their steel composition, heat treatment and machining procedures were inferior to those of, say, the Germans... Quite the contrary in fact.
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Re: What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
Well oomans, we're still thinking along these lines. A 6.5x55 in an AICS stock is one option, a P14 chambered to take 7.62x54R is another... The 7.5x55 Swiss / K31 seems to be out of the running as the surplus GP11 ammo is almost impossible to get. Another possibility is a Howa 1500 based rifle ...
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Re: What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
oooh, preshus ! 
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Re: What milsurp as a basis of a target rifle?
the 7.5x55 PPU ammo is reasonably priced and makes the basis for a cheap reload, the Howa would make a good base as well (of course I'm biased :P )meles meles wrote:Well oomans, we're still thinking along these lines. A 6.5x55 in an AICS stock is one option, a P14 chambered to take 7.62x54R is another... The 7.5x55 Swiss / K31 seems to be out of the running as the surplus GP11 ammo is almost impossible to get. Another possibility is a Howa 1500 based rifle ...
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