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help with Swiss .22rf
Sep 10th, 2006 at 7:42pm
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I recently acquired a Swiss Martini Style 22rf and I am looking for as much info as I can find on it. Rudi tells me is is a Swiss "federal" match rifle.  I gather that is is sorta like our old match grade .22rf '03 Springfield match rifles or the later .22rf German single shot bolt-action Mausers.  This one has a 26 1/2"octagonal barrel, except for the rear sight area a few inches ahead of the reciever where the upper two angled flats rise up and meet each other (no top flat) in sort of a "hogback".  This peak is dovetailed for a block which in turn holds the vee-notched rear sight.  the rear sight is micro-threaded for both windage and elevation.  The adjusting screws will require a square-holed watch-key type wrench.  I suspect that the rear sight or possibly it's dovetailed mounting block may be a replacement since it is not slotted for the dovetailed sight itself to clamp into--depending on a friction fit of the clamping screw--a light dovetail needs to be filed into the block.  In addition the sight is calibrated from 100 to 300 according to the engraving on its side.  The front sight is a modern Lyman globe fitted to the dovetail on the heavy 4" long front sight base.  There is no provision for a tang sight (again an indicator of the Swiss rifles, I am told).  Barrel and stock are equipped with bases for hook type sling swivels. The stock is modest comb-less offhand style with quite a bit of drop and it has a simple almost schuetzen buttplate, a deep crescent with short blunt points rather than arm-enclosing prongs.  For me it holds and balances beautifully

The bore is clean and bright and it shoots far better--even with inexpensive non match ammo-- than my aging eyes, iron sights, and lack of offhand experirnce allow.

The Martini action is heavily stamped  "Gottl. Stucky, A Fribourg" in two lines on the right side.  the underside of the barrel has a plethora of proof marks which are unintelligible to me. the left side of the barrel has an intertesting stamping just ahead the sight on that "hog-backed barrel flat.  It appears to have had a long oval that said  "xxC (or G) Mayor" in the upper part of the oval; however it has been partially obliterated by fine but crude punch stippling and then overstruck with the name  "Theophile Buser".  Under the oval the name "Fribourg" is heavily stamped.

It has double set triggers, and a very neatly simple schuetzen type lever.
The chamber seems a bit worn and extraction of fired cases requires manual effort, though unfired rounds are ejected cleanly.

Any info or references to information sources would be very appreciated.  What was the use and purpose of these rifles.   What would the original sights have been like.  Any idea what the names--especially the strike out--indicate.

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Re: help with Swiss .22rf
Reply #1 - Sep 11th, 2006 at 5:09pm
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Great!  that looks 'zakly like it is my new-to-me rifle down to the numebr in the stock, which I forgot to mention,.  Sounds like it has an interesting pedagree wiithin the ASSRA.  Now would some one please share the story with me?
  

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Reply #2 - Sep 12th, 2006 at 11:26pm
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this is your rifle..... i think. MP has all the info on it 


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Re: help with Swiss .22rf
Reply #3 - Sep 13th, 2006 at 7:34am
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Thanks for reposting the pic,  wondered if my Mac somehow ate those posts,  If I inadvertantly picked someones scab off and rubbed salt in the wound I sincerely apologize.  Being a historian I naturally want to learn as much of the history of any arm I own----in a way it makes owning pre-owned arms so much more interesting to me.   Factory new guns seem rather palid and soul-less to me. anyway I'm just trying to find out what I can about it.
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Re: help with Swiss .22rf
Reply #4 - Sep 14th, 2006 at 1:11am
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I don't know anything about any possible disagreement, but I sure do admire the rifle. I think that I would have been all over that "bad boy" if I had had the chance Cheesy.

Good lookin' piece...

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