Milsurp After Hours

While working hard today *cough*, I was in the neighborhood of a local firearms emporium, know for having decent prices and often a rack of C&R stuff.





Whilst perusing the racks, I noticed a rather large number of C&R guns, including 2 Chilean Mausers, 3 P-14's, 10 Enfield No. 4's, A couple of Springfield Trapdoors, some Steyr 95's, a Remington 1903, and a couple of Turk Mausers...looked like they cot a collection in.





While wandering around and thinking, "Hmmm...decent prices.." I laid my eyes on the back wall of the shop....and there she was.





A Swiss long rifle, a 96/11 by the looks of things. Well, let's see what the price is...but I'm not buying today....





Hmmm....$195 the tag says, bayonet included. I look her over, and she looks pretty good, the bore has strong rifling, but looks a bit cruddy, still, $195...


So then I call my brother for advice...


"Does it have a splice in the pistol grip?" Yup. "Okay, it's a 96/11". "No import marks" Nope.


"Is it 'P' marked?" Yup. "And it comes with a bayonet?" Yup. "And you're still asking me about it?" Nope...off to the counter.





Sadly the bayo doesn't have a scabbard, but on the bright side, $185 OTD.





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This is stamped on the comb of the stock-





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Any idea what it means? TIA








UPDATE-


Google is a wonderful thing...


Graubunded is a Canton in Switzerland.





BTW-bore cleaned out to a perfect mirror finish.

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