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Like some info on M95 Steyr.

Artic wolf
I have a M95 Steyr in 8x56r cal but would like some info on the gun.
The gun has no import markings on it, It has K's all over the metal,
There is a fill on the bottem of the stock and a sling metal loop on the side. When i took the butt plate off i found a empty space leading into the stock. All the numbers are matching. 914x
Wn32 and has an S on the top of the barrel with son the side.
The gun stock is in very good shape the barrel is in good shape.
Any info on value and any more info would be Great.Thanks[:)]
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  • Der Gebirgsjager
    I want to warn you--you have to watch these M95s. As long as you've got only one you're probably o.k.; but leave two alone together in a dark closet and they multiply! I've got at least six, and consequently have spent a little time reading up on them. First, your "k" marking indicates that the rifle spent some time in Hungary, as that was a proof mark--although precisely what it means I don't know. I have found only a reference that later a crown was used without the "k"; but never exactly what the "k" meant. I'm of the opinion that its liberal application constituted more of a parts acceptance mark. The rifle was manufactured during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before W.W.I. Because of your hollowed out buttstock I think your specimen started life as a cavalry weapon (saves weight). The "S" means Spitezgeschoss (Austrian for spitzer bullet) and indicates that the barrel was chambered for the M-30 cartridge. WN32 probably means that your rifle passed through the Hasag,Hugo Schneider AG, Dernabach plant, Thuringia, Germany in 1932 where it underwent some sort of conversion. It is likely that they changed the location of the sling swivel from bottom to side. I have a cutdown Austrian version that retains swivels in both locations and some Hungarian models with bottom only. Between the World Wars there was an effort made to standardize all of the remaining M95s to the short rife configuration, and many were issued to the German/Austrian Police and second line troops. This was done because the full length version had a relatively thin barrel for a military rifle and was found to warp from the heat of extened firing in the trenches of W.W.I, and because of the convenience of the shorter length. There are no definitive and exhaustive reference books on this rifle that I have been able to find, but there have been many articles, and I'd be happy to send you a couple of xerox copies if you e-mail me your U.S.P.O. address. As for value, without seeing the rifle, considering it's good condition and lack of an importer's mark, I would think a high of $250 from a collector interested in these rifles and their variations. Unfortunately, you'll probably wait a long time to find that collector, because there are so many similar appearing rifles floating around right now from the recent import wave (still for sale from SGO, etc.) and they all look the same to the uneducated eye, and they are worth $80-100. These are fascinating rifles to collect, because while they were pretty well standardized into just a few models during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after W.W.I the
    Empire broke up into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslovia, and all of these performed their own modifications of changing swivels, etc. and even rechambering to 8x57mm. Besides being mechanically ingenious they make a neat deer rifle in their shorter version.
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