Steyr M95 carbine

[Jbob]

Not sure if I posted this one before or not. Bought it and the ammo from a good friend a few years back for $100.oo
I've shot it several times and I do believe the recoil and sound will beat any Mosin carbine out there.
All numbers match even the stock. Beat and banged some but over all a pretty neat rifle.
I see now that it has the much need recoil lug bolt in the stock. Would this have been done later during a referb or did they build it that way ?

[redspoon]

Not sure about the crossbolt question, but I have a couple of these. A Steyr and a Budapest marked, and yes I agree they thump a little harder than the Mosin carbines. Not sure what they run these days, both of mine were under a $100. Nice score with all the ammo.

[Jbob]

Not sure about the crossbolt question, but I have a couple of these. A Steyr and a Budapest marked, and yes I agree they thump a little harder than the Mosin carbines. Not sure what they run these days, both of mine were under a $100. Nice score with all the ammo.

I saw 2 of them at Cabelas back in the early summer and they'd been there for a long time. I also watched the price go up until this Fall they were at $325 each. To my surprise one of them was gone when I stopped by there last month so someone paid big bucks for that rifle. What little our local Cabelas has in the military line is priced out of sight. I haven't been by lately to see if they're flooded with 91/30's like others are seeing.

[Darryl]

You do realize that the ammo you have there is worth close to what the entire rifle is worth??

That ammo is hard to come buy and new ammo is hard to stomach the price on it. One really needs to reload if you want to shoot this rifle a lot. One of the most fun rifles to fire but, be ready for a punch. It's no slouch.

Nice one!

As far as the cross bolt, or recoil bolt....I don't know either. There is not a lot know about these rifles. Not like most WWII rifle any way.

[Junk Yard Dog]

[desdem12]

Man that is a nice 95. It looks like it has a 19 date under the S? That is very late and supposed to be past the last date of original run. Could be made from parts. Maybe post a better foto of the mark under the S. Also this is a Czech used and marked rifle which makes it even cooler. Post up a closer foto of the mark on the right side of the receiver. I have not seen too many with the Czech acceptance like this. What a great buy

[TulaTom]

Heck of a deal. I saw this ammo for $10 a box at a gun show about a year ago. I had nothing that would shoot it, but I grabbed a box for the heck of it. Now I've seen it where it's not cheap. Should have bought the lot from the lady. Nice carbine.

[kjohn]

Heck of a deal!! If you carefully take the ammo out of the box and remove the cartridgesfrom the clip, you might see different dates in the same clip and box. I bought a whole case years back and that's what I found. There we're pre-Nazi and during-Nazi head stamps all mixed up. I don't shoot the stuff. I have new reloadable brass and my friend has a set of dies and a Lee bullet mould, so we are set.

The little carbines really roar and belch flame. I have two or three that were rebarreled to 8x57. They also roar with surplus ammo. As you are likely aware, do not single load, as the extractors are prone to breaking with this method, and parts are hard to come by.

If you have to load a single round, make up four dummies from fired casings and maybe poor bullets, and just load the round to be fired last in a stripper clip.

Edit:. I'm not sure, but this business of single loading may only apply to the Yugo 8x57 conversions.

[gregsteb]

I own alot of milsurp rifles and the little M95 is definately one of my favorites. A blast to shoot and the straight pull is very unique. It's also cool to pull out a 100 year old rifle that looks like it was built yesterday. 1917 models definately dominate the market by far. I have a 1914, 1916, and a bunch of 1917 models.
The M95 bayonet is really cool also.

[rick54R]

I have the opportunity to purchase one for $200.00
But, I have been told the ammo is hard to come by and very much denairo........
But I do like the look of that carbine.

[desdem12]

Personaly I would not let the ammo thing stop you. You can find it if you look but prices will vary for sure. You never know where or how much. Surplus is around still for this rifle and 200 is not too bad for them.

[rick54R]

[quote="desdem12"]Personaly I would not let the ammo thing stop you. You can find it if you look but prices will vary for sure. You never know where or how much. Surplus is around still for this rifle and 200 is not too bad for them.[/quote
Yea, after studying this most excellent example,
pretty sure this will be purchased.
Thanks for you advice.
Rick

[evildog]

I got 8 of these awesome little rifles and they are a blast. If you do load one round at a time for whatever reason just make sure you slide it up under the extractor on the bolt. There is not a lot of play there and it is how folks can break it by loading a round in the barrel and then slamming the bolt closed on it and the extractor has to go out around the rim cartridge. Or just load up 5 at a time in the e-clip problem solved......

You can buy current production of this ammo and then of course reload it how you want to get the best out of the rifle.....Great buy by the way!!

[ffuries]

I've have one I picked up in 2013 for around $200.00, mine has the Wn “Eagle’ 18 over stamped with Hv “Eagle” 32. We have a local store that still has some mil-surp ammo for it, last time I bought some from him it was around $15.00 a box. I've got one box of Nazi marked ammo, and several boxes of Austrian/Hungarian (?) marked ammo.

[desdem12]

Sounds like a nice one. Sometimes the rebuilds have a second acceptance date with the funky chicken eagle