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The straight-pull bolt is a nice idea; the M95 is a little rough overall, and the bolt movement is not particularly smooth. From the overall looks, mine has seen a lot of rough action. Besides the need for the enbloc clips, the gun uses .329" diameter bullets instead of the nominal 8 mm, .323". The only commercial bullet I have found is the 205 grain .329 spitzer imported by Graf and Sons. I have used a Lee lubrisizer in .329" to convert Speer .338 bullets to .329 by swaging them down. The swaged Speer bullets do not have a cannaluer so taper crimping is required.

The iron sights on my rifle are really bad; the trigger pull is long and creepy, but it is a military rifle. Shooting from sandbags at 50 yards I can barely keep five rounds inside of 5 inches. I'm using load data that came with the Lee dies; there's darn little data published anywhere. (I think Hornady also makes dies.)

As I said, my rifle has a headspace problem; the primers on every fired case have backed out. Probably needs a new barrel, but I'm not going to buy one. There are probably no really good barrels for sale anyway.

The Mosin-Nagant is probably a better bet for all the reasons stated by others on this post; I am mostly a paper target shooter and like to experiment with different rifles. In 1895 with the dawn of the smokeless powder age, the Styer was state of the art. I bought mine out of curiosity; probably look for a genuine German-made Mauser 98 soon.

[Lurker]

If I were going to buy a straight pull design I’d probably spend the extra money and get one of those Swiss K’s.

[J_R_I]

The reason your primers are backing out,is because the load data from Lee is too light.
I had the same problem with the primers backing out in all 5 of my M95’s,until I found better load data.No,I have no problems with the primers backing out.

I use 50 grains of IMR 4350 with the Privi 208 grain FMJBT from Grafs,or 45 grains of IMR 4320 with the same bullet,good for 2300fps.