Gun Collectors Dream Auction #73 Mixed Guns
Lot 1335:
Up Next We Have a Yugoslavian M95M Infantry Rifle (Puska M95) That Appears in Great Condition, Equipped With a Leather Sling, Chambered in 7.92 x 57mmJS (8mm Mauser),
The conversion from an M95 to an M95M involved the following modifications:
– The magazine assembly was removed and the clip ejection slot filled by welding on a sheet metal cover.
– A new non-removable bent sheet metal magazine clip was permanently installed.
– The clip retention claw was ground off leaving only she shaft to support the new fixed magazine clip.
– The follower was extended, reshaped to direct the spitzer rounds onto the feed ramp and the dished out portion at the rear of the follower was welded over and ground flat.
– The cartridge ejector was reshaped higher to eject the smaller diameter rounds.
– A thumb cut was added to the receiver.
– An “M” was stamped after “M95” on the receiver ring.
– A new M1924 barrel supplied by the military Technical Institute at Kragujevac was threaded and fitted to the receiver. M1924 Mauser sights were used.
– The stock was shortened and the original handguard modified to fit between the nosecap and the stock band. An M1924 handguard was adapted to bridge the space between the receiver and the stock band. The nosecap and stock band were standard M95 parts. The converted stocks were stamped with either “AT3” or “BT3” for either the “Artillery Technical Institute” or the “Military Technical Institute”, both names for the Kragujevac facility (see thumbnail at bottom of list).
– The bolt body lubrication holes were reamed to a larger diameter and corresponding holes were drilled into the bolt head shaft to bleed off gas in the event a case ruptured.
– The forward nub on the underside of the bolt body was milled away.
– The bolt head was shortened 1.8mm and a new bolt face recess milled to match the 8×57 cartridge base.
– A mauser extractor claw groove was milled into the bolt head and a newly designed extractor claw made to fit the modified bolt head.
– The bolt head and bolt handle were serialized to the rifle, as were the magazine, magazine spring housing, the barrel and the stock just below the receiver serial number.
– The rifle was proof fired and marked on the receiver, barrel and bolt knob with the Yugoslavian “crown over T” proof mark.
– Charger clip guides were machined into the rear receiver ring.
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