Swiss Straight Pulls: ZFK 55 Scoped Rifle, 7.5x55 GP11
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Bloke gets a rare opportunity to shoot a Swiss ZFK 55 telescopically-sighted rifle in 7.5x55 GP11. Well, it's mostly (but not exclusively) a designated marksman's rifle (aka DMR), developed right at the end of the straight-pull era and overlapping with the Stgw 57 (aka SIG 510)
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Ok, translate "Crow Cannon" to American English, please.
Robert L Crow - Combat Recruit of war, ie green. With the l86/lsw being the gat people new to their regiments pick despite it "handling like a brick"
Joe Crow is the new kid or the useless bloke in a squad. He'd get dicked with carrying the L86 /SA80 LSW because of its perceived uselessness and extra weight.
When I inevitably hit the mega millions one of these is definitely on my list of things I don’t need but really want.
2:30 The Stgw 57 that were capable to take on the Kern scope were also given out to the Jungschützen program (without the scopes).
What a cool rifle. I wish they could be had here in Canada. I’d be all over one.
Mind you I got my k31 from a retailer for 200 bucks Canadian funds. He tossed in a flat of gp11 ammo as well for 500 Canadian out the door.
So I was very pleased. At the time I wasn’t even really aware of what a k31 was. As I did some research I was pretty happy about my purchase as a whole and have become a Swiss rifles fan ever since. Well the milsurp ones anyway.
Do all your shooting off bags. Keeps a level playing field for all the rifles being tested. Just a thought.
Pretty sure Corwin Arms had one of these for sale a while back for 5000$. But it was snatched up almost immediately.
"It's over, Russians, we have the high ground"
Wow. I asked for this last video and you delivered. Thanks
I saw the number 5001 the last ever produced ! ;)
Only 3 channels make my week these days: C&Rsenal, Mark's gunsmith side-story for C&Rsenal, and this one (occasionally Ian's too).
The quirkiness of The Bloke and The Chap, set against the incredible vistas of Swaziland....errr....Sweden....errr...Switzerland ( :) ) just make it enjoyable.
There's a good dose of castor oil and cheese for the week :P
Having never fired a ZFK 55, but having owned and used MANY K11's and K31's, I can only imagine the experience. I'm more a turn-bolt guy (Mausers and Lee Enfields), but the Swiss rifles AND the Steyr Mannlichers are wonderful firearms (a Steyr M.95 long rifle I owned - with a 5 out of 10 bore at best - was the most delightful and accurate LONG RANGE rifle I ever owned - I would happily ring the large frying pan sized gong at 600 metres with it with 1939 dated ammo with every shot. Bring it back to 100 yards, and you may as well have had a shotgun LOL).
Now if Mark releases another bluing/conservation video this week, I can sit back, relax and enjoy...
Thank you two for taking the time off to do this, they are true beauty’s
I want one. To me it's the "holy Grail" of Swiss milsurp.
Great video but the magazines are not interchangeable with K31s they are numbered to the gun and have slightly higher feed
It’s. K31 mags fit but won’t feed. I know as I have tried. The scope and mount is a one piece casting with the attachments machined into the receiver. Incredible engineering in itself. You can get mounts so you can attach an ordinary scope but the height over the bore is very high.
Note the blood is attached to the receiver not barrel so it is awkward but helps accuracy.
After a bit you get used to it. You should take a look at the spare parts kit as well. It’s a fantastic rifle and I’m glad I own one.
Keep up the great videos.
mrfibble303 IIRC about the only thing compatible with the K31 is the cocking piece and maybe the trigger guard.
would be good to know how it shot off of a bag and not the bipod.
Hey man I don't know if you remember me but I'm one of the people that gave you a first-hand experience on the M1 Garand ping LOL but I'm so glad everything worked out for you I love your Channel and I'm here for you to fight a good fight if you ever need it
Thanks!
Very good show old chap,,, and bloke.
What a beautiful piece.
Nice straight pull action and no need to lift your cheek weld.
This thing apparently served into the late 60s since armors manuals go out that far, going to be honest i think this thing was outdated the day it rolled off the floor, 1955 is a bit late for something that really is WW2 Vintage.
The question is why did they even bother with this? it was clear by 1955 that bolt action rifles where dead, and if this thing was meant to be a DMR and not a sniper rifle, it goes against this very idea, and this does not seem like a simple K31 conversion that might have made sense, it's a whole new rifle that would require it's own Jigs and tooling, not a cheap thing to just go out and make and basically be forced to throw away only a few years later.
Bolt rifles are still used by snipers and designated marksmen almost in every western army...so, this one wasn't obsolete at all in 1955!
@@FortuneZer0 Pretty much this. Switzerland is in a sad state anyway, what with their upcoming vote about firearm laws.
The muzzle brake is very Flash Gordon ray gun.
Wow that muzzle break works, it just doesn't move.
Really cool rifle.
Grazie
Just to get idea the accuracy, K31 standard was shot out of the mashine (fix device to test the accurcy), 10shot group to 300, most rifles made 100 points =10x hit the 10 which is a 10cm circle at 300m. Guns with target 98 and 99 ( one or two flyer just outside the 10 were also around). The average of a Stgw 57 was 98 with even 96 around. Good shooter only wanted a rifle with a „100er Schussbild“. The Stgw 90 a few has agin the 100 but most have 99 or 98. The Kar 55 had to bring 20cm at 600. The K31 and K55 was rifles that were around 1moa. And the Stgw‘s just over. Many guns which were exported abroad were selected, not good enough to be rebarreled, that is why in most cases the group results are way larger the a shooter here would ever accept. The scope of the K55 is crap, there are no clicks, a milky glas, I hit better with the K31. But most of the rifles was heavy used for training in the army and the sold when they was obsolet and worn down. The intension was to suport the less accurat Stgw 57 with a kind of sniper rifle.
The Schiessmaschine figures from Das Schiesswesen in der Schweiz aren't as high as what you're saying there ;)
Nowadys noboday rebarrels or buys a new K31; but before the Stgw 90 came in 89‘, nobody who was seriosly shooting was going for anything less then a 100er Schusblid, the big part of after war K31 fullfilled the spec., the K11 was far less accurate. On the range you not see a so big difference because the line of sight in longer on the K11.The problem with K55 is its bad scope. When a K31 makes a 20cm patern it is time for rebarreling. Most K31 today have pasted it max life expendence, so they have far more then 15000 rounds on it. GP11 barrels usually opens up after passing 10-12000 shots, life in 15000, the US exports I have seen most probably surpassed 20000, the gun smith have tools to mesure how much dia is left inside. To Juguslavia they exported the better ones because they was going hunting with them and not plicking on the range. The outside look does not mean anything, a military used rifle one from after WW2 from someone who barly shoot is the much better chioce then a range gun which has been shot to death. The first usually look outside nasty but has inside much life left, the second is outside fine but the barrel is a gone.
Could you take a CLOSE UP photo of that muzzle brake????
I know for a fact I wanna better look at it, and I'm sure everyone else does to.....
Thanks for the GREAT VIDEO!!!!
Forgotten Weapons says the action is canted 16 degrees not 15. Who is right ?
You wake me up
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7:20 Ooh er missus.
Classic Bloke and Chap...superb!
today the M249 is 7.5kg for an lmg, 6.1kg for this rifle is heavy. I bet they picked the larger lads to carry one.
So neat.
I have to correct you the magazins are not interchangabl they are diffrend. I get a lot of problems to feed if i use normal k31 mags .
I own the zfk55 as well as a Hammerli fk target rifle. Do you have info on the FK series of 100 rifles that were said to have been shipped to Nicaragua, but ended up in Israel?
No more info than is online - they're not in the standard reference book
Hope you Great Film.
When Ian covered this rifle in a video a while ago, it inspired the work I did in the last year. I slanted the clips to avoid the ejector, rather than the scope, but the results are similar: ruclips.net/video/DVfu-vpKp50/видео.html
The scope mount is very clever bloke, how clean does it have to be to function properly?
Probably very :)
Vertical pattern over 2, 5 round groups.... breathing . :)
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People love this gun at the range until they sit next to it :)
When you say wasn’t liked - do you mean by the troops or by youtube? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ooooooooooooo beauty...........
7:20 That's what she said.
That is quite good recoil control. That round is equivalent to commercial .308?
Heavier on the recoil. 175gn @2550 fps, or thereabouts.
Bloke on the Range I was thinking GP11 had a heavy bullet. That's why I suggested the commercial loading. Some of the 175gr loads are pretty stout.
Nice i have a K31
BOTR, your video about ze German DAG ammo has nearly 300k views. When, oh when, can we expect part-2, PLEASE?!?!?!?!? Do you enjoy torturing us?!?!!? :P
What brand/ type of jacket are you using?
An off-brand one I bought from www.whd.nl years ago.
Did you notice any difference feeding from an angled clip into the vertical magazine?
Nope, no difference. Mag's not vertical though, it's at an angle too.
Oh gosh, I hadn't noticed that. They really did a number on it didn't they?
It's really impressive the lengths they went to on that thing!
Muzzle brake is so the shooter can "observe his fall of shot"? Am I hearing that correctly?
That's what he said, and I was wondering what he meant. After thinking about it for a bit, it probably helps keep his eye on the target, were without it the recoil would blast his sight picture off while he was looking for the fall of shot.
Observe impact to confirm hit or correct aim.
The target doesn't leave the field of view of the scope since the recoil is mitigated.
Curt Wiltzius Less recoil through the scope to observe impact. This is basic stuff.
THEKINGOFMETROPOLIS My bad. I had to look up the phrase that I quoted and it seems to usually be used in the context of artillery or other indirect fire. I haven't spent any time shooting howitzers so I had never heard it before.
This got you banned? What the actual?
nah, it was the one before, the k31/43 vid (now on Full30, UGEtube and Bitchute, btw), which was a basically identical video on this rifle's predecessor.
Did anyone else not get a notification for any videos today?
Check your subscriptions and your subscription settings. Shadowbans for the win....... :/
I thought this had a tri lug bolt?
nope
45° loading LoL?
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That bipod looks horrendous, think you'd be better off shooting it slung rather than from the bipod.
It's really too heavy and badly-balanced to be shot slung! It's best shot off a rest, but people also make adaptors for modern bipods which improve things.
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Some one needs to tell this lee enfield fanboy the true fastest-manual action is the lever-action its the fastest with the biggest mag , MERICA!!!
You're welcome to mad minute challenge me against Frankenrifle with any lever action you desire. Would make a fun collaborative video. Oh, and I get to use my 40 round mag just to make it even more fun :)
No need to break out the Frankenrifle. Using stripper clips you could beat him even with the manky Mauser in a mad minute contest, while the only kind of stripping he'll be doing is his fingers on the loading gate. Doing it from prone it would be interesting to stack him up against a Vetterli, another contemporary high-capacity rifle. Or do a mad minute with a Winchester 1895 Russian contract (that accepts stripper clips).
Haaraff, no loading gate. I’d use a Henry and just dump em in there with my own tube style “stripper clips” kept in an archery quiver
Ok buckaroos, it might have slipped past you but this is a historic military firearms channel. Earliest speed loader for tubular magazines I could find dates back to 1879 (Patent US211691A), for gate loading rifles only. Find a documented contemporary example (trials report, patent, or link to pictures of a surviving example) for the Henry, then feel free to use it (or your replica thereof) in a mad minute. Would be interesting to watch you dump em in there from prone without standing up. There's a reason tubular magazines went the way of the dodo in military applications (with the exception of the Lebel and shotguns) by the end of the 1880s, and it has something to do with certain key innovations in the field of ballistics.
Haaraff why to y’all go off about prone so much? There is something called cover n concealment
Hey Bloke what do you think of this rifle?
m.ruclips.net/video/tnucPC1zFVI/видео.html
meh :)
Bloke on the Range more into old surplus stuff? What do you think of sporterized guns? I’m thinking about buying a lee enfield sporter but I’m kinda more of a Mauser guy.
20 cm at 300? That’s ridiculously bad for a Swiss rifle, a k31 is capable of sub half moa what happened???
K31's are not capable of sub half MOA, lol...
@@BlokeontheRange there is footage and perhaps it’s just an exceptional group, it is on an accurized set up with a stock barrel