Streight pull action other then Schmidt-Rubin?

[Kachok]

A friend of mine bought an old rifle that the previous owner swears is a 6.5x55 but it is a straight pull action with Swiss markings all over, I told him not to try and shoot 6.5x55 through it until I can confirm but it looks like a hacked up K31 or other Schmidt-Rubin rifle and to my knowledge there were no straight pull 6.5x55s made in that era or any other time for that matter. Serial numbers on the barrel, magazine, and action match so it had not been modified other then the stock.
I am thinking the previous owner is mixing up 6.5x55 Swede and 7.5x55 Swiss.

 

[rondog]

There's the Steyr M95 carbine, but it's 8mm.

 

[Cosmoline]

He's either mixing it up or someone did a very strange modification to a K-31.

 

[rondog]

Might want to poke around here.... http://www.swissrifles.com/

 

[Kachok]

He's either mixing it up or someone did a very strange modification to a K-31.

Yeah but with matching serial numbers I bet the caliber is still the same, How could I tell the K31 from the older Schmidt-Rubin rifles? Those older ones were chambered in some oddball calibers like 7.5x53.5.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Are the locking lugs on the rear or front of the bolt? What is the bolt handle made from?

 

[Kachok]

I cannot remember if the lugs were at the front or rear, I do remember that there was a broken handle to the right of the bolt the remaining piece looked like wood, of course the ring was steel. The magazine was mounted right in front of the trigger guard which is why I told him I thought it was a K31 instead of one of the older rifles. It was from the 129th battalion if the stamp on the butt plate is correct. In any case I cannot see this being a 6.5x55, all my tools are in storage at the moment so I could not measure anything but the bore looks to be a 30 caliber just eyeballing it.
The person he bought it from also swears it was a German sniper rifle, I have a real hard time believing that seeing as it has the Swiss cross stamped all over it.

 

[JRs12Valve]

Blazer makes one in a variety of calibers, but they're newer bolt guns.

 

[Ian]

I can't find the details right now, but I could've sworn there was a carbine variant of the Schmidt-Rubin adopted by Sweden in small numbers in the 1890s...any chance you can get photos of the gun?

In any case, it should be simple enough to determine if the bore is actually 6.5mm or 7.5mm.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Broken woodlike material.

Sounds like an older k11 to me

 

[Kachok]

Could be a K11 but to me it looked like the magazine was too close to the trigger guard to be a K11, maybe a K31 with a replacement handle, I'll try to snap a couple pics next time I am over there. Other then the stock being sawed short it looks to be in decent shape, well worth the $50 he paid for it IMHO.

 

[Float Pilot]

Winchester made the 1895 Lee navy (USMC used it as well) which was a semi straight pull in 6mm Lee navy cartridge.

The Ross Rifle was also a semi-straight pull type action.

 

[Edarnold]

I can't find the details right now, but I could've sworn there was a carbine variant of the Schmidt-Rubin adopted by Sweden in small numbers in the 1890s...any chance you can get photos of the gun?

In any case, it should be simple enough to determine if the bore is actually 6.5mm or 7.5mm.

There was an 1893 Carbine, which was the Steyr-Mannlicher 1895 action fitted with a detachable 6-round magazine and in the 1889 7.5 caliber. Weighed under 7 pounds, kicked a lot and had poor accuracy ( by Swiss standards ), the Swiss kept them in service until they got the 1911 Carbine, which was heavier and more accurate. The OP's rifle with a ring safety and wood or hard rubber handles on the bolt doesn't match, I'd agree that it sounds like someone's rework of a K31.

 

[Shadow 7D]

you also have 6.5 Mannlichter, from the 6.5 M-S Greek rifles.

 

[Ian]

There was an 1893 Carbine, which was the Steyr-Mannlicher 1895 action fitted with a detachable 6-round magazine and in the 1889 7.5 caliber.

Yeah! That's the one I was thinking of.

 

[303tom]

Did he say it was straight pull or it had a straight bolt ?..............
Straight pull, it could be a Lynx 94 or a Heym SR30 or something like that, they both can be had in 6.5x55...............

 

[alsaqr]

There was the Canadian Ross straight pull bolt action rifle.

Close tolerances of the action, coupled with poor quality ammunition, lead to many problems. Those rifles sometimes blew un when troops assembled them wrong. Most Ross rifles were withdrawn from service. Canadian snipers preferred the Ross rifle because it was more accurate than the Enfield.