The Schmidt Rubin 1911 - Happy Christmas to me

[ovenpaa]

I found this languishing in a shop today, the Viking got involved in some harsh negotiating and home it came :)

Built very late 1917, I have some dies and hopefully still some brass so I have a feeling it will dragged out for our traditional Christmas day test shoot at the range.

[bhodge]

Nice one, I love these old rifles...

[ukrifleman]

Nice one David!

[safetyfirst]

Lovely rifle! Merry Christmas :)

[ovenpaa]

I think we need to find as sling for it now and get it shot.

[Duey]

Well that was a fruitfully outing this afternoon then
Well done

[kennyc]

I think we need to find as sling for it now and get it shot.

I got a nice new one off of the bay took some wearing in though in fact it's still stiff

[snayperskaya]

Very nice rifle Dave I was looking at a carbine version at my club shop last weekend which looked nice.

[ovenpaa]

Well it has been stripped, cleaned and checked and I have a box of cleaned and sized once fired brass and some dies ready to be loaded. Now I just need to decide on what bullet to use, I have some old SMK Palma and some Lapua Scenar 155 or 170 LB to use, I might even have some spitzer somewhere. Whatever I use it will be a very steady load as I doubt it will go out beyond 300m.

[kennyc]

Well it has been stripped, cleaned and checked and I have a box of cleaned and sized once fired brass and some dies ready to be loaded. Now I just need to decide on what bullet to use, I have some old SMK Palma and some Lapua Scenar 155 or 170 LB to use, I might even have some spitzer somewhere. Whatever I use it will be a very steady load as I doubt it will go out beyond 300m.

scenars would be a good choice at 300m and GP11 would be a better choice at 1200 ! take it out and stretch its legs
PS 48gns of RL17 and 174gn ppu bullet work fine in my K31 so should be a nice load in the G11