Does anyone know about maintenance or ammo pressing on a

Self bump

>>34303780
Try the milsurp guns thread.

Commercial ammo hasn't been made since I think before 1939. The original 41 Swiss was a rimfire cartridge though modern shooters have taken to converting the bolt to fire a center fire version of the same cartridge. Lee makes loading dies for this. You can use trimmed and fire formed 8mm lebel brass and there are molds available for casting your own bullets. Black powder loads are most often used though there is some smokeless data available.

Maintenance is pretty easy, buy a 44cal bronze brush and a 41 cal jag and scrub the shit out of the bore. Bolt disassembly isn't recommended unless it's really dirty. You can find guides for that.

Your rifle looks like a 69/71, you can determine the age of it by looking up the serial number.

>>34303862
can also use .348 Winchester as a parent case

Gads Custom Cartridges can convert the bolt to center fire and you can buy ammo from a couple of places or reload it yourself. If you don't convert it you have zero hope of finding ammo

>>34304054

You can however the rim isn't as thick so you won't get consistent extraction from it. 8mm Lebel is closer to the original and much more reliable.

I'd only use .348 in a situation where that was locally available and for some reason ordering 8mm lebel online was impossible.

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>>34303543
Funny you post this because I'm currently in the process of converting mine to centerfield and making ammo. I'll post some pics if you want. Pic related is my bolt center punched so that I can still the firing pin whole. For whatever reason, I can't find anywhere that has 8mm lebel or 348 brass in stock. I've done a ton of research so ask away if you want to know anything.

>>34305841
*centerfire
*hole

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>>34305841
Drilling the hole. No one worry, either, I bought an extra, non-matching bolt body to drill, I still have the matching bolt body untouched

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>>34306116
The jig I used to drill the hole with in a drill press. The firing pin is a rcbs decapping pin that measures .070" with the shoulder squared up and the drill bit is a #49 bit that measures .073"

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>>34306149
The firing pin installed. Still waiting on a $5 firing pin carrier from swiss products, but theyre custom made, so it may take some time. I may just make my own at this point