Swiss Magazine Repeating Rifles: 1869 to 1958

excellent book a must for lover of Swiss rifles

Essential reading if you are a collector, shooter or someone interested in these precision made firearms. No other book as good as this for the price in the english language.

good

If you're looking into buying, collecting, cleaning or shooting Swiss-manufactured rifles from this period, this is absolutely your go-to guide. Full of illustrations and very comprehensively written, it would serve well for any Vetterli or Schmidt fan. It loses a star purely because it's a bit ploddy at times. I appreciate this is part of its charm as a reference work. It's better to dip in and out than read it as a narrative.

Excellent

good

Very informative and comprehensive.Very useful to collectors.

Gave me all the information I needed for my Vetterli

We've got a long way to go before this book morphs into "The Borchardt & Luger Automatic Pistols" in 3 (very expensive!) hardcover volumes, but that said, this is a fine & dandy little resource. I immediately appreciated the info on removing the K31 extractor, something that a lot of YouTube bolt disassembly videos don't talk about, or try to discourage one from doing. Well, I did it about an hour ago on one of my three K31s and was able to clean a lot of foul grease, accumulated FrogLube, and crud out. The extractor was the only part on that rifle I had not disassembled, cleaned, re-blued, polished, re-crowned, or otherwise futzed with. So finally that rifle (I call her "Elsa", a.k.a. 952458) is well and truly sparkly clean. Nice. I got turned on to these magnificent Swiss rifles via YT videos from iraqveteran8888 (betcha some of you other readers/reviewers did too, am I right?) and that fine gent hickock45. This book has worsened my "Swiss Flu" condition considerably. Thus far I have decided to stick with the K31 mainly due to practical considerations -- it's a dollar-store sniper-grade rifle that eats ludicrously cheap ammo and is built like a Mercedes Benz. (Well, back when Mercedes Benzes were built like a Mercedes Benz.) But after reading Poyer's book here, I find myself thinking, "why not a K11? Maybe a Vetterli? There's some real history here -- these are the guns (and guys and gals with guns) that made Adolf Hitler poop in his pants." So I guess if you, dear reader, have the Swiss Flu then I'm preaching to the choir. Good book. Buy it. Beats running to the message boards every 5 minutes to see what Guisan has to say. But if by chance you're a newbie (no shame in that) doing research on Swiss rifles, or think to go "group standard" on them (yes! and get spare parts), or maybe thinking about a Curios & Relics license (yes! no-brainer), or contemplating stockpiling 10K rounds of GP-11 (on the list!) then, well, I'd say stop meditating and start doing. And let's send all the info we can to the author so he can turn this book into the 3-volume encyclopedia we really covet!

Dass Buch bietet sehr viele Informationen,sehr interessant und leicht verständlich(für mich mit Schulenglisch) wenn ma sich schon ein wenig mit der Materie befasst hat,einen Fehle habe ich aber gefunden,das Bajonett 06 wird hier als Bajonett 1911 geführt,aber ansonsten ist es für den Sammler sehr zu empfehlen.

Manuel technique et historique très détaillé, sur des fusils peu connus mais qui font exception parmi les armes "de guerre", par la qualité et le soin apporté à leur fabrication et à leur entretien. Ces armes "de troupe" se rapprochent d'armes de match, et sont bien souvent utilisé comme tels. Historique, technique, accessoires, variantes, l'ouvrage est fort bien détaillé pour le tireur sportif, le collectionneur, l'amateur d'histoire, de technique qui suivra l'évolution de ces très belles et très originales mécaniques. En anglais, ces études nous viennent souvent des Etats-Unis, où il semble que notre beau patrimoine européen se voit apprécié et reconnu sans restrictions. Le même éditeur propose aussi, entre autre, une étude sur "the Swedish Mauser Rifles", fusils plus classiques mais dont la qualité de fabrication et la précision rivalisent avec celle mise en œuvre en Suisse.

Das Buch ist eine gute Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Daten zu diesem Thema. Es ist für alle empfehlenswert, die sich umfangreich informieren wollen. Gute Englischkenntnisse sollten vorhanden sein.