@@grapeapetape9132 they still make the ammo for this. Its 7.5x55. I know because I own a 1911 straight pull myself. The ammo is about $1.5 a bullet though.
I ❤ my 96/1 Thank you Alfred M for for keeping the rifle in excellent condition during your swiss military service and after you bought it back from the military :) Alfred M (M is the initial for the last name of the soldier whose name was on the troop tag of my Swiss 96/11)
Waoo. I heard a Swiss army leave the name tag under the but plate. That was awesome! I was wondering to buy one ... How safe is the straight pull back bolt?
Superb Mae as usual! Love that ''easy'' loading but that ''pull and turn'' safety looks like something I would've come up with at home! No offense anyone!
I freaking love Swiss straight pulls. Always found it odd how long the technology has existed yet bolt actions are still the normal to this day. The action is so smooth and fast compared to a rotating bolt.
@@DeadBaron But, now the advantages of a straight pull are overshadowed by the advantages of semi-auto rifles, so there is no reason to develop further.
@@colemanmoore9871 not necessarily. Semi-auto redirects some gas back to the bolt group to unlock it and start sending the bolt backwards before the bullet leaves the barrel, so some energy is wasted. This is why bolt actions are still very common in service for marksmen and snipers. Even the Barret .50BMG rifles have a bolt variant. To be fair the energy lost is negligible, but marksmen want as much power and accuracy as they can get. Modern straight pulls, with their rotating cam locks, are very similar to a semi auto and can fire calibers with extreme pressures. except instead of using gas to push on a piston or bolt release, they use the action of your hand to unlock and retract the bolt.
@@colemanmoore9871 True, the places where straight-pulls are most popular tend to be the places where semi-autos are either illegal for hunting, or outright illegal.
I have one of these and believe it a darn good rifle and caliber. A few years later, I bought the K31. Like that even better. I adjuster the front sight a tad and can hit 3 to 5 round groups within a 2” pattern at 100m. Off a rest yes but it is the rifle. Not my skills at well over 60.
Some much older former swiss soldiers are still attending the yearly federal championships using the same own rifle that was handed over to them in the age of 19 or 20. Some of the very good shooters have attached specific old style precise diopters (scopes not allowed) making aiming at the 300 meter federal shooting range distance more easy.
Slow the commentary down to 33 1/3 instead of 78 rpm. You can get the info across just fine in a minute at that rate. Keep up the excellent work. Cannot wait for you to rate a Carcano,if you did already ( just discovered your channel ).
I doubt that the trigger has been slicked up as the standard triggers break like glass and are so smooth that you might think they have been worked on.
Interessting, I have a 96/11 myself, mine has a verry good two stage trigger. I am wondering if that is the Standard or if mine is falling out of line.
Two-stage is standard (and was the military requirement). If you modified the trigger (which you could easily do as you kept the rifle at home) in such a way as the one Mae has, it would fail the annual inspection and be sent to an armourer, at cost to you, to have a standard trigger refitted.
It was interesting to find out how many features of it are holdovers from the black powder days. If this rifle had started design one, two years later, we might've effectively gotten the K31 decades earlier.
Ignoring the fact that the Rg. 89 was developed from the ground up for smokeless powders, the 1896 action (as used in the Rg. 1889/96, Ig. and Kar. 11 and various minor carbines) was created a couple years later. The 1911 pattern was a procedural development of that, it’s not like they designed a rifle in the black powder era and and kept with it, the whole thing was a gradual process. What actually allowed the Kar. 31 to exist as it did was an advance in metallurgical techniques and stamping process. The only thing that would have created a Kar. 31 ‘decades earlier’ would have been those developments in manufacturing.
Almost certainly false, to be honest. It makes no sense and there’s no explainable way for it to happen. The only country known to have received Swiss straight-pull rifles as export was Israel, who had 500, if I remember correctly, in use as training and sniper rifles for a brief period in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Whether they ever saw combat is unknown.
@@mzwere1 I can only imagine how long it is. One cannot but wonder on the muscles on the average Swiss Infanteer stood awaiting the order to fire , at the present with six feet of rifle and bayonet. Last thing I fired with bayonet on was the old SMLE and it can get tiresome.
I have both 96/11 n K-31 Both are excellent condition with great bores.. The K-31 is truly a great rifle.. Just think 🤔 what one would cost if they still made them New these days ? I hand load but getting GP-11 for decent price is long gone :(. Ya can't even get the exact projectile just .308 booleto's which ya have to set back in the brass cases because of the taper.. be well and Keep America Great 👍.
168gr smk projectiles are probably about as close as you can get. Sometimes a shipment of gp-11 projectiles makes its way to the US but it doesn't last long.
I’d agree with her, I own one and the weight counters a good amount of the recoil, strong recoil is what my light and handy Husqvarna 1600 in 30-06 delivers, it’ll leave you tender after a visit to the range.
A superb series of rifles. A pure 96 would actually have to be an 1889/96 produced after 1897 but shouldn't be confused with the model 1897, clear as mud : ).
If you twist it into the safe Position, it's in a channel where it can't get far enough forward. If you want to get it to fire again, you have to pull the ring so far back that the pin is fully cocked. Otherwise you can't get it out as far as I remember. So I don't see a Situation where you could accidently fire.
I have a 1911 that looks like it fell off the factory line. Personally, I like the 1911 more than the later K31 Switzerland would make. Just a smoother gun in my opinion and mine has the ID tag under the but plate.
All a couple thousand, almost all of which are Privat series rifles. Due to the fact that you got a free rifle just by being a Swiss man, not many people bought Privat ones, so there aren’t many out there. It’s not believed that any un-modified Rg. 1889/96s ever left the army through privatisation (at the end of a soldier’s time in service) before they were converted to 1911 spec. Some of the Privat ones, too, were converted up to 1911 spec by civilian gunsmiths.
These rifles take gp11 no problem. The older Modells, the ones that normally feed gp90, those should not be fed with gp11 unless it's a emergency because they can't take the pressure.
Once again someone Gave Mae a rifle as tall as her,.give.the girl a break, even the military was not female back then, so just because she's 5'4" doesn't mean she should be forced to hold up a 10lb rifle! Thats why stocks are composite now!!!!!!! Even back then they laid on.A trench!! Give the girl a raise!!!
You will not believe this, but I just picked up a 96/11 circa 1903 and after inspection , realized it has never been fired ! I found the Dodo , sounds impossible, but true.
I have collected many Mausers, so I they are my prefered surplus rifle. I have German Swiss ancestry, but never bought one of these because IMHO they are the ugliest rifle on Earth. The ring safety and str8 pull bolt have always been a big turn off for me. Sometimes I think the Swiss Army always chooses whatever they can make or import rifles and ammo no one else uses.
This rifle and the Swedish Mauser are most definitely some of the best milsurp pieces out there still 🥇🏆
BINGO give the man a cigar.
Yes sir! absolutely trus
You can't go wrong with them.
Man that action looks so smooth, hell, even the weird strip looked really smooth as well. Very impressive for such an old rifle.
One of the greatest rifles ever made, also one of the most gorgeous.
Define “greatest”
Define gorgeous
@@robertrobert7924 define define
Ah, the original Swiss straight-pull. This is on my must-buy list.
I thought the original was the 1889 model.
Man I feel like I've seen you everywhere on RUclips while I've been growing up. Cheers!
@@paleoph6168 mght be. My memory is a bit fuzzy on that.
@@jdstark24 I get around. ;-)
@@lairdcummings9092well, the 1889 model is the first in the Schmidt-Rubin series of rifles, so I think it is the original.
When the Zombies come, I want Mae on my side. She can shoot anything.
fires 3 rounds from a vintage rifle and then dies because ammo has been out of production for a century
Agreed.
Cringe
I was thinking the same thing I just didn't wanna be the first to say it 🤣🤣🤣
@@grapeapetape9132 they still make the ammo for this. Its 7.5x55. I know because I own a 1911 straight pull myself. The ammo is about $1.5 a bullet though.
I picked one of these up a few years ago to compliment my K31 and K1911, it handles like a musket, but they're fantastic rifles
An excellent review, as usual
I’ve always liked the way the front end of these looks
I ❤ my 96/1
Thank you Alfred M for for keeping the rifle in excellent condition during your swiss military service and after you bought it back from the military :)
Alfred M (M is the initial for the last name of the soldier whose name was on the troop tag of my Swiss 96/11)
Waoo. I heard a Swiss army leave the name tag under the but plate. That was awesome! I was wondering to buy one ...
How safe is the straight pull back bolt?
Love the Swiss straight pulls. Shopping around for another K31. Used to have 2 but stupidly sold them a while back
Superb Mae as usual! Love that ''easy'' loading but that ''pull and turn'' safety looks like something I would've come up with at home! No offense anyone!
Yes, the technique for the safety is to start right hand thumbs down instead of Mae’s thumb up…
SLICK !!! You run that one very nicely 👍 Mae likes these.
Thank you for all the videos
Good work Mae, and yes these are great surplus rifles, not battle worn relics.
My to buy list keeps on growing
Thanks Mae
Light, delicate exhale is always followed by a loud boom.
Yay a min of Mae ❤
Dang I passed on one of those 10 years ago for mosin nagant .
Didn’t really know much about it anyway.
Great as always.👍👍👍
I freaking love Swiss straight pulls. Always found it odd how long the technology has existed yet bolt actions are still the normal to this day. The action is so smooth and fast compared to a rotating bolt.
But much more complicated and expensive to build.
@@colemanmoore9871 not really with modern machining. And the longer a technology exists the easier it is to produce.
@@DeadBaron But, now the advantages of a straight pull are overshadowed by the advantages of semi-auto rifles, so there is no reason to develop further.
@@colemanmoore9871 not necessarily. Semi-auto redirects some gas back to the bolt group to unlock it and start sending the bolt backwards before the bullet leaves the barrel, so some energy is wasted. This is why bolt actions are still very common in service for marksmen and snipers. Even the Barret .50BMG rifles have a bolt variant. To be fair the energy lost is negligible, but marksmen want as much power and accuracy as they can get.
Modern straight pulls, with their rotating cam locks, are very similar to a semi auto and can fire calibers with extreme pressures. except instead of using gas to push on a piston or bolt release, they use the action of your hand to unlock and retract the bolt.
@@colemanmoore9871 True, the places where straight-pulls are most popular tend to be the places where semi-autos are either illegal for hunting, or outright illegal.
If you find a pure 96 it's going to either be a P series or a back conversion. Because every service rifle was converted.
You can pick these up for under $1800 Australian with no licence required in Queensland. I found a website selling heaps of these
A joy to wacth
My local gun store has one of these. By coincidence I’m planning to take a close look at it tomorrow.
I picked up a 96/11 at a Cabelas for $500 in gorgeous condition 99% matching numbers with original mag too
DIVINA!!!
I have one of these and believe it a darn good rifle and caliber. A few years later, I bought the K31. Like that even better. I adjuster the front sight a tad and can hit 3 to 5 round groups within a 2” pattern at 100m. Off a rest yes but it is the rifle. Not my skills at well over 60.
Some much older former swiss soldiers are still attending the yearly federal championships using the same own rifle that was handed over to them in the age of 19 or 20. Some of the very good shooters have attached specific old style precise diopters (scopes not allowed) making aiming at the 300 meter federal shooting range distance more easy.
I've always thought the simplicity of the safety on these was pretty ingenious.
Very well said indeed !
Muy bueno tu vídeo saludos desde Argentina
Slow the commentary down to 33 1/3 instead of 78 rpm. You can get the info across just fine in a minute at that rate. Keep up the excellent work. Cannot wait for you to rate a Carcano,if you did already ( just discovered your channel ).
I've got one of the K1911 variants. The shorter length is awesome.
I doubt that the trigger has been slicked up as the standard triggers break like glass and are so smooth that you might think they have been worked on.
I have an 1896 that was converted into a 22 short biathlon rifle
You mean a G96 or G96/11?
If it's a G96 then it must be a P series.
Not sure what you mean
@@WalnutandSteel
Does the serial number start with a P like P1234.
I want one so bad.
Thank you very much. That stripper is a good design.
Looks like a bolt action made by elves, especially with that curled trigger and semi pistol grip.
Interessting, I have a 96/11 myself, mine has a verry good two stage trigger. I am wondering if that is the Standard or if mine is falling out of line.
Two-stage is standard (and was the military requirement). If you modified the trigger (which you could easily do as you kept the rifle at home) in such a way as the one Mae has, it would fail the annual inspection and be sent to an armourer, at cost to you, to have a standard trigger refitted.
The cardboard chargers seem to work so well. I am surprised more nations didn’t try them.
We are going to need a bigger Mae.
We dont need to change anything about Mae!
Bello veramente bello
It was interesting to find out how many features of it are holdovers from the black powder days. If this rifle had started design one, two years later, we might've effectively gotten the K31 decades earlier.
The only thing that was really a hold over is the location of the bolt lugs being behind the magazine.
Ignoring the fact that the Rg. 89 was developed from the ground up for smokeless powders, the 1896 action (as used in the Rg. 1889/96, Ig. and Kar. 11 and various minor carbines) was created a couple years later. The 1911 pattern was a procedural development of that, it’s not like they designed a rifle in the black powder era and and kept with it, the whole thing was a gradual process. What actually allowed the Kar. 31 to exist as it did was an advance in metallurgical techniques and stamping process. The only thing that would have created a Kar. 31 ‘decades earlier’ would have been those developments in manufacturing.
I just inherited my grandfathers 96/11. So there are no concerns firing modern GP11 ammo?
I have heard a couple times Germany, specifically Fallschirmjager, used these in limited numbers.
Still don't know how that could be
Almost certainly false, to be honest. It makes no sense and there’s no explainable way for it to happen.
The only country known to have received Swiss straight-pull rifles as export was Israel, who had 500, if I remember correctly, in use as training and sniper rifles for a brief period in the late 1940s/early 1950s. Whether they ever saw combat is unknown.
WOW, Imagine that with a bayonet on the end!
I have one and the bayonet. It is really a fine quality rifle, truly one of my favorites.
@@mzwere1 I can only imagine how long it is. One cannot but wonder on the muscles on the average Swiss Infanteer stood awaiting the order to fire , at the present with six feet of rifle and bayonet. Last thing I fired with bayonet on was the old SMLE and it can get tiresome.
I've got a 89, it's a heavy bastard
Hell yeah
I have both 96/11 n K-31 Both are excellent condition with great bores.. The K-31 is truly a great rifle.. Just think 🤔 what one would cost if they still made them New these days ? I hand load but getting GP-11 for decent price is long gone :(. Ya can't even get the exact projectile just .308 booleto's which ya have to set back in the brass cases because of the taper.. be well and Keep America Great 👍.
Try PPU ammo it shoots as well as the Swiss GP11. Think it shoots a touch higer
Iam from Czech Republic and our Sallier&Bellot ammo factory make them (7,5x55 swiss FMJ) commonly. But I dont know how in US 🤔😬
168gr smk projectiles are probably about as close as you can get. Sometimes a shipment of gp-11 projectiles makes its way to the US but it doesn't last long.
@@cmphighpower , When I buy store ammo it's what I use.. be well.
@@kylebradley3 , Exactly what I use to reload with....only have a few 100 left of GP-11 :(.... be well.
Love these episodes of guns I also own : D
I have one of these, and if Mae considers this "moderate recoil" what is strong recoil?
I’d agree with her, I own one and the weight counters a good amount of the recoil, strong recoil is what my light and handy Husqvarna 1600 in 30-06 delivers, it’ll leave you tender after a visit to the range.
Can you do a 410 GA 24
A superb series of rifles. A pure 96 would actually have to be an 1889/96 produced after 1897 but shouldn't be confused with the model 1897, clear as mud : ).
Where did you get those chargers and how much are they?
I wonder about that type of safety. If you twist it, wouldnt it drop under spring pressure, and fire a round?
If you twist it into the safe Position, it's in a channel where it can't get far enough forward. If you want to get it to fire again, you have to pull the ring so far back that the pin is fully cocked. Otherwise you can't get it out as far as I remember. So I don't see a Situation where you could accidently fire.
I have a 1911 that looks like it fell off the factory line. Personally, I like the 1911 more than the later K31 Switzerland would make. Just a smoother gun in my opinion and mine has the ID tag under the but plate.
Good luck on finding a pure 1896! I wonder how many still exist?
Yea, I heard they're as rare as henn's teeth due to the swiss government being very thorough in upgrading all available to the 1911 pattern.
All a couple thousand, almost all of which are Privat series rifles. Due to the fact that you got a free rifle just by being a Swiss man, not many people bought Privat ones, so there aren’t many out there. It’s not believed that any un-modified Rg. 1889/96s ever left the army through privatisation (at the end of a soldier’s time in service) before they were converted to 1911 spec.
Some of the Privat ones, too, were converted up to 1911 spec by civilian gunsmiths.
WW2 next!!
I didnt know it was 10lbs, mine really doesnt feel that heavy to me.
I think Mae may be more rare than the guns she shoots😉
I didn't buy these when they were $180 because didn't believe these will hold up to steady diet of GP11.
They certainly will and have been doing so for a century now!
These rifles take gp11 no problem. The older Modells, the ones that normally feed gp90, those should not be fed with gp11 unless it's a emergency because they can't take the pressure.
Swiss quality. 🇨🇭
👍👍👍
The older ones always seem front heavy
Once again someone Gave Mae a rifle as tall as her,.give.the girl a break, even the military was not female back then, so just because she's 5'4" doesn't mean she should be forced to hold up a 10lb rifle! Thats why stocks are composite now!!!!!!!
Even back then they laid on.A trench!! Give the girl a raise!!!
Bom.
Had a pure 96 lost everything when someone stole all of my collection.
Im allergic to adorableness!
Bonito rifle aunque un tanto obsoleto,comparado con otras armas de cerrojo del mismo periodo,se ve un poco aparatoso en el manejo 👍
🙂👍☕
Was this gun in ww1?
Not actively. The Swiss were neutral
Swedish mosin!
>TFW No G31 rifle never ever.
Mae: (fires Schmidt-Rubin 1896/1911)
Me: (looks at my Schmidt-Rubin 1896/1911) haha, I do that.
A mauser 1895 next?
Cute as a button. The rifle, not so much...
6th, 29 September 2022
Uau
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You will not believe this, but I just picked up a 96/11 circa 1903 and after inspection , realized it has never been fired ! I found the Dodo , sounds impossible, but true.
Mae, your face suggested you were no looking forward to this!
Wow thats talking fast calm down
First comment!!!
I have collected many Mausers, so I they are my prefered surplus rifle. I have German Swiss ancestry, but never bought one of these because IMHO they are the ugliest rifle on Earth. The ring safety and str8 pull bolt have always been a big turn off for me. Sometimes I think the Swiss Army always chooses whatever they can make or import rifles and ammo no one else uses.
Use SI Units. None of this Inches or Pounds nonsense.
@C&Rsenal >>> 👍👍