Greetings from Switzerland, Congrats on your K31 I hope you can enjoy shooting it soon! Fun fact, you guys outside of Switzerland have it much easier to get the great surplus G11 ammo, as a swiss person you basically have to re-import exported surplus or buy comercial ammo for your private use. About the diameter, here in switzerland 7.5mm is considered .306, fand usually here you would want a bore of no more than 7.53mm (0.307) for competition ect. Many of the older K11 and such do have bores that are worn down to 7.56mm (.308) and more, Im guessing the .308 test results come from there.

Be sure and look under the butt plate. Some of them (mine included) have the solder’s name and address in a piece of paper.

They are almost always in very good shape. Well taken care of. The loading info says 308 projectiles. I have them in the dark walnut and the very light blonde wood. Always beautiful rifles. The Swiss make some nice things. And there is a muzzle cap that goes where you found the finish wear.

Extremely nice rifle, congrats… and for these current prices it would be dumb not to get one.

I believe the Swiss had a muzzle cap they used to keep snow out of the barrel. That would explain the wear.

I bought a K31 in like 2014 and as soon as I saw how well they were made and how accurate it shot I bought a couple of each type in the Swiss straight pull series. Once these are totally gone from the primary market they will really go up. Not a ton were made in the first place, and they are such great guns. I already see nice examples like the one I paid 300 for back then going for 700 plus on gunbroker. You see some real insane prices on them at gun shows, of course that applies to all surplus now. But Im glad people have been able to get these for more reasonable prices lately, I know Bowman had some for around 480 recently. I didn't have much luck when I rolled the dice at RTI but this was a good deal. I have more surplus rifles than I would care to admit and the most accurate of all I have (based on my examples and how they shot) would be the K31, Finn M39, and Swedish Mauser.

Very nice find I am thinking I need one of them.

Would like one for sure. I even bought reloading dies for it years ago to ensure one day I do.

I like the product placement for Aspen Snake Bedding. I hope they're compensating you for that. :)

"A pretty gosh darn sweet riflllllle". I have never heard a draw quite like that haha. I wish there were modern takes on straight pulls, they seem to be a nice in-between for semi autos and traditional bolt guns or lever guns.

So Swis; It's like a chocolate bank vault, that keeps (perfect) time.

Picking my K11 tomorrow Not a K31, but it's what I wanted Thanks

I absolutely LOVE these rifles and their predecessors

We’ll I just ordered one. The Swiss K11 Carbine. I appreciate the link to ur video. Very enlightening. $429.00 with all matching numbers. Didn’t pay extra to upgrade bore and overall appearance. Hope it’s a nice one that I receive. They said that the Swiss did not use corrosive ammo. I’ll let u know how it is when I receive it. Thanks again

Date will be stamped under the butt plate. Serial number may be later (Issue date). I have a numbers matching that was stock date '38 and a seral of '41, and a second that both dates match.. First thing I always do is pull that plate and look for a troop tag. The difficulty right now is finding GP11 Ammo less than $300 a round, if at all.

I also have one and love it has blonde wood, traded an old Yugo Mauser for it.

The swiss made nice stuff

These are really awesome. Great pick up. ...and don't forget to check under the buttplate. Enjoy!

They never fire anything but match grade ammo in them the military surplus ammo I used to get for mine had bronze bullets had on the boxes match grade.

They've gone up $100 to $500 which seem to go in and out of stock. I just ordered one as nowhere else seems to have them at that price in the condition listed.

Doing my best to get you back out to the range

Hopefully you find a range or somewhere to shoot,ammo availability in my surroundings isn't common so that's what's keeping me from this rifle, I'd rather get another mosin to my collection or something in 308 😅😅😅

Don't usually find firearms like that from RTI. They usually have classic junk.

Damn thats a steal! Congrats man, I love my k31. Looks like thats a wartime or pre war k31 with the walnut stock. Is your magazine matching?

Who cares if your magazines are 20 or 30 rounds.