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IOF 30-06 Rifle

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:54 pm
by shutzen
HI! I am posting pix of the IOF experimental 30'06 rifle as promised in an earlier post. The medals in the pix were won by the IOF team members in the GVM open sight comp. I have the original pics clicked with a canon pro1 camera at 8MP resolution file size for each pic is about 3 megs. These were taken at the 49 NSCC (BB) These are downscaled versions of those pix. I could not resist adding one more pic of the BSF Indore MU motto - Vanity thy name is BSF Indore...... anyway enjoy the pix and have fun.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:05 pm
by mundaire
Post moved to the correct section "Rifles" - Shutzen in future please take the time to identify the most relevant section prior to posting....

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:06 pm
by mundaire
Shutzen,

Would you by any chance have close ups of the blot? Preferably with the bolt open... just being greedy now ;) LOL

As expected the furniture looks crap all - but the design looks interesting enough to merit a "dekho"...

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Re: pics of xperimental IOF 30'06 Rifle

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:20 pm
by penpusher
And the bolt looks like it has been stuck on with epoxy.Sights seem to be from the .22 as is the wood for the stock(it's walnut but the cheapest version of it.Bought at high rates no doubt) and the rail for mounting the forward sling swivel.For sale at about $ 1875/- :(

penpusher

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:22 pm
by mundaire
penpusher";p="22040 wrote:as is the wood for the stock(it's walnut but the cheapest version of it.Bought at high rates no doubt)
penpusher are you sure about the wood being walnut? It looks a lot like that cheapo wood they use on the .315 rifle...

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Re: pics of xperimental IOF 30'06 Rifle

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:56 pm
by penpusher
The cheapest walnut that you can get.

penpusher

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:59 pm
by shutzen
mundaire";p="22036 wrote:Post moved to the correct section "Rifles" - Shutzen in future please take the time to identify the most relevant section prior to posting....

Cheers!
Abhijeet
HI! Abhijeet - the IOF dudes refer to it as a target rifle and they also say that when it would be sold target shooters will get prefrential allotment - they also said that it would come with mounting rails for front and rear peep sight -so I thought to post it in the ISSF section since I feel a lot of new shooters will use this as a stepping stone to move onto proper hardware once they qualify. BTW the other post would have been clubbed with this but the software has to be config. ur end to allow more than 3 attachments.

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:00 pm
by Mack The Knife
Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a two-piece stock?

I don't see any safety catch either.

Mack The Knife

Re: pics of xperimental IOF 30'06 Rifle

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:17 pm
by Risala
Shutzen,
Any idea when it will hit the streets.
Did get an idea on the price from the OFB Rifle Factory around 75 K incl taxes.
Thanks
Sanjay

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:08 pm
by eljefe
Shutzen-Thanks for the snaps.
Mack The Knife, Safety on left side of receiver? Whats this? desi Blaser? ;)
Axx

Re: pics of xperimental IOF 30'06 Rifle

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:08 am
by The Doc
I have the same feeling as Mack The Knife, looks like a two piece stock :roll:

RP

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:42 am
by shutzen
HI! guyz when u look at it dont u see similarities between this and an IOF .22? the sights and the barrel diameter ;)

BTW as someone had also pointed out the IOF .22 has the same twist rate as the INSAS ,this was a topic of discussion on our range last year I think , a shooter had gotten his rifle from the factory ahd the staff there had told him abt it. Man we have the most disorganised , cottage industry (darra pakistan style ,not european style on which pattern the brits operated and established these factories) use of manufacturing process and capabilities - I think the IOF is only outdone by another legacy of the raj - The royal enfield mobike ;) at least I think now they have changed to the international protocol for the gear shifter and foot brake otherwise vroom vroom and ooops...

Re: pics of xperimental IOF 30'06 Rifle

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:21 pm
by z375
so this contraption is what our Indian '06 looks like?? seems like a mix n' match of quite a few guns out there...the two-piece stock heralds our long-standing Enfield affair and the overall woodwork lines very closely resemble those of the .315, nice attempt at a Monte Carlo though, hand-checkered with a pen-knife, never quite figured out why they go through all the trouble of making the forward sling stud so very adjustable??...part of the action looks like a rip-off the Krico Mod 902, the bolt handle really looks like a butter-knife, im sure it'll come in handy when somebody forgets the cutlery on those annual GVM 300m picnics! the trigger guard and the drop-box magazine look plastic, rear and front sights seem surplus off the IOF .22....the barrel, bedding, scoping capability and functional reliability are all questionable...it looks prettier than the .315...how it shoots and handles remains to be seen...

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:34 pm
by kanwar76
shutzen";p="22156 wrote:The royal enfield mobike ;) at least I think now they have changed to the international protocol for the gear shifter and foot brake
otherwise vroom vroom and ooops...

You must be having a very bad piece or you don't know how to ride a bullet :)

-Inder

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:58 pm
by shutzen
kanwar76 wrote:You must be having a very bad piece or you don't know how to ride a bullet :)

-Inder.
Nyet pal before they started following protocol if u wuz a yezdi rider or a firang coming in and took a ride it often ended that way ;)