Of all the surplus European rifles available, I would expect the K31 Swiss rifles to be close to the best in workmanship, followed closely by the Swedes, then pre-WWII Kar 98K German issue, and perhaps the Finnish reworkedMosins. I once owned a sporterized Norwegian Krag M1912, made at Kongsberg in 1918. It was a fabulous rifle, with the nicest piece of flame-gained European walnut in the stock that I've ever seen on a miltary rifle. I'll bet the ones made by Steyr in Austria were outstanding!

In reviewing some of my old reloading notes today, I was reminded how accuratea British military rifle can be. This one belonged to a friend, and it was a No. 5 Jungle Carbinewith a 4X scope mounted, but otherwise as-issued. We worked up a load for this thing that was consistently shooting 0.5" 5-shot groups at 100 yards. The load used the Sierra .308", 200-grain bullet with 47 grains of IMR 4350 in WW cases with Fedral 210 primers. The MV from the 18" barrel was only 2150 FPS, but the guykilled a number of big deer in Montana with this rifle.