Swiss K-31 Availability?

Question

I know there are a few firearm dealers on here, so I thought I'd ask.

I am interested in purchasing a Swiss K-31 rifle in the next few months. One website I came across that sells them claims that there are no more stockpiles of the rifles left and will probably become quite scarce pretty soon.

Does anyone know if this is true?

Also, if anyone has a K-31, I'd be interested on your opinion of the weapon.

Answer 1

Call The Sportsman in Greenville, MS. They have a K-31 rifle in their consignment rack. It is in good to very good condition, and IIRC the price is around $250.00. I looked at it with lust in my heart last Thursday.

Doc

Answer 2

If you want a K31, better get one soon.

The supplies have become limited and the prices have gone from around $100 when they were first brought in to over $200 today.

On the forums at SurplusRifle.com, I noticed a guy selling off his collection this past week and included one walnut and one beech K31. He asked $200 for the beech and $225 for the walnut and sold them very fast. These guys all have 03 FFLs too and they usually won't pay over wholesale.

Also, the first ones imported a few years back were the cream of the crop, some new-to-excellent. The latest ones were a mixed bag and some were really worn.

I was lucky to get both an excellent walnut and a so-so beechwood K31. Both had soldiers tags under the buttplate.

These rifles were often assigned to one soldier, who after his two years of full time service in the Swiss Army took his service rifle home with him (with bricks of ammo no less!) and would go to his local government range and shoot whenever he wanted, having to qualify every year to get his reserve paycheck. They turned them back in when they reached 50, but some were allowed to keep them. To the Swiss, shooting well is a matter of national pride.

I use mine in my club's Old Warhorses shooting competitions, which are for bolt actions and open sights only, WWII and before. These are 200 yard matches similar to the John C. Garand matches in course of fire (50 rounds total per competition)

I have Mosins, Mausers, Garands, Springfeilds, Enfields, etc. but to me the Swiss K31 is the cream of the crop, probably only competitor would be turn of the century Swedish 96s.

In the past few years, the only rifles you see in the top 5 out of 50 or so competitors are Swiss K31s, Swedish M96 Mausers and the occasional Springfeild '03. EDIT: A guy won last year with a Finn Mosin Nagant and promptly sold it for $500 to another competitor. Forgot about that one.

Answer 3

That's a new one to me, but I won't say it's not true. If only one site claims to be low on K-31s, they might just be doing it to try and sell the rest of their stock at an inflated price.

I'm also looking at getting a K-31 in the next few months. They usually have better barrels than any other WWII surplus rifles. Being Swiss, they are, of course, built very well, and at the price they're going at now, I'd doubt that any surplus rifle would be nearly as good, dollar for dollar, as a decent K-31.

Answer 4

My dealer has a couple on his shelf, but he told me that last time he tried to order them, he had a hard time finding them from his usual sources.

I have a fairly nice one with all matching serial numbers. It has the Beech stock, which has a disproportionate amount of dings and scratches if you compare it to the nice condition of the bluing. It has the card under the butt plate, though I have seen a couple that don't. It has a pristine bore.

Should you get one? Heck yes! It's an awful lot of quality rifle for around $200, it just oozes quality. I know I would be disappointed if I didn't have one!

Answer 5

No, not true. K31's have been a surplus on the market for quite a while. Pick up a copy of shotgun news at Barnes and noble or another book store and you will find lots of ads for them.
Shoot safe

Answer 6

i offered my Dad one, and that i understand he loves it. i've got shot it a number of cases too, and that is precise as hell with iron factors of interest. Supposedly somebody makes a scope mount for it too, yet we frequently choose for to leave Milsurp rifles of their militia dazzling configuration. once I first have been given it for him, the butt-inventory grew to become right into a splash banged up so we had to sand it down and refinish it. interestingly the Swiss infantrymen might in basic terms shove them down into the snow while they made camp and then use their boots to interrupt them loose returned while it grew to become into time to march on. Sounds loopy to me to deal at the same time with your rifle that way, yet that's what i've got heard. different than that nonetheless, it grew to become into in super shape, and for $one hundred seventy five who might *****! Oh yeah, and that i accept as true with all people else on the fee of shooting it, 7.5 Swiss is in basic terms about as high priced as 7.7 eastern! wish that helps.