M58 M69 Cg63
CalFed --
Thanks. I was lucky to find these rifles.
I've had two CG63's. I've just got one now. Both were
also very accurate. Coincidentally, the CG63's also had
Schultz & Larsen barrels on them. Same 6.5x55 chambering,
of course.
So the rifles are very similar, especially the M69 and the
CG63, having the target type stocks. The actions are similar
in rigidity, etc. They were used for similar courses of fire.
The M69 and CG63 are competitive.
If forced to pick one, I would pick the M69 because of it's
trigger. It has a multi-lever trigger and has a very fine release.
The CG63 (and the M58) have "touched" standard triggers. Very
nice though for standard triggers.
If anyone is looking for an M69, there is one on Gunbroker.
The guy's price is a little sweet for me, or I would have picked it up.
He has it listed as an M58. In fact, this fellow that has this one
is the person I got my M58 from.
I remember when AIM surplus recieved a batch of M58's and M69's
around a year ago. About 150 rifles. They threw them up on their
website for I think $300. Their phones rang off the wall. I was
distracted from the sport at that time and had not been watching
the forums. I was very sad when I found out about these rifles
coming in and not getting one. The M69 I have was one out of
that batch. I bought it from a collector that got more than one and
decided later he wanted to sell one of them. I was glad to have
him make a $200 profit on it.
dxr