Jumping in here late but that refinish job is
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.....that's what mine is...the Tisas for the price suits my purposes. We are shooting steel targets at short distances for our military matches. Appearance wise, they look like the old 1911's and mine has been reliable. Since our range requires lead bullets only, it hasn't had an issue with any of my reloads. One thing I did was change out the plastic grips with some wooden ones. Did wonders for the look of the gun but both of the bottom screws were torqued down tight. Had to use an impact screwdriver to shock them loose. Just a word to the wise if you buy one and want to change the grips. Yes, most of the real military guns have gotten stupid pricewise. Which is kind of funny because these aren't exactly rare guns, lol....to top it off most of them have been shot to death.
...kewl....!
Colt Army Model of 1917 made in 1922, Colt Model 1911 made in 1917, Nagant M1895 Revolver made in 1943, Enfield Number 2 Revolver made in 1943 by Albion Motors in Scotland, Walther P.38 made in 1945 by Spreewerk, Beretta Model 1934 and Type 94 Nambu made in 1944.
A couple of decades ago, I started collecting infantry rifles with the goal of one rifle for each major player in WWII. After about 10 years, I got to the point of having most of the 'easy stuff'.
I love the look of the Vetterli/Carcano. Almost has a "steam punk" look to it. Here's mine.
Yes I've shot it. It's nothing spectacular to shoot, but there's not much recoil to it with the 6.5 (I reload for it and my other Carcanos). When I first got it, the firing pin spring was weak, but a buddy of mine had one with a bad barrel that he didn't shoot, so he traded me springs to get mine up and running.
I don't think the slings are exactly the same but can't confirm right now. My two rifles are off-site atm. Both have original slings afaik. The sling attaches on the side of the K31 & the bottom of the K11. A popular high-power mil-surp match mod to the K31 was to swap on a K11 front mount.
Just re-looked and you're right, however it looks like that K11 carbines and K31 do share the same mounting point style with both being on the side, might be a slight length difference but Mongo was right, I should be fine with either.
