That said, just remember that, even though they've been rebarreled/rearsenaled, the 'youngest' of these guns is over 75 years old, most likely served on one side or the other (or, possibly, both) during the Spanish Civil War, and therefore should be treated with caution so far as pressure levels. While failures have been known to occur, many, many shooters have put many, many rounds of milsurp 7.62x51 (and 'modern' milsurp 7x57!) downrange through various configurations of the M95 without a glitch. So far as the strength of the M95s, there have been several previous threads discussing the issue so I'm not going to try to recap all of them. Last time out, I tagged the 8' gong at 200M four out of five shooting from the ing a 'guesstimated' holdover.Īll the 1916 Short Rifles and Carbines are M95 actions but, once you get used to the 'cock-on-close' bolt, either is a pretty slick-handling piece and, even in 'as-issued' would make a dandy deer rifle.
312) will produce 2'-3' 100M groups with issue sights. 3085 and the chamber is a bit on the 'generous' side but 25.5 gr. For casual steel-bangin' and plinking out to 150M, it would be a tough call for me to pick between my M1916 Short Rifle (7.62x51) and my Marlin 1894 levergun (.44 Mag).
