Is $175 a fair price for an M95/34 Steyr carbine (about NRA good-very good condition)?

Also is 8x56R surplus ammo fairly inexpensive and available. I remember seeing WWII surplus for sale but don't remember the price.

It is certainly not the cheapest I have seen, but not too horribly bad. I have seen really nice shape ones sell for as much as $300.

Most of the surplus ammo available is from the late 1930's. Though it still fires pretty dependably, it is very corrosive. So, one needs to clean afterward with hot water or other solvents which will dissolve the priming salts deposited in the bore. Most bore solvents will NOT do that.

Graf's has inexpensive boxer primed brass of excellent quality, and the correct.330" diameter bullets of the weight for which the rifles were originally sighted (205 grains). Lee makes both dies and moulds at relatively low prices.

The rifles are very handy to use and accurate. Some folk complain about the recoil from the light carbine, but I have found it no worse than most centerfire hunting rifles of equivalent bore size.


UPDATE!!

This morning, Sunday, Big 5 has an ad wherein they are running a 3-day sale on these rifles, for $99. Also, the Lee dies & mould are available through the mail from leeprecision.com as part #90925 @ $30. The bullet mould is Lee part #90775 @ $19.95 - shipping from Lee to anywhere in the "South-48" is $4 for the both of them in one package.

So, you could get a rifle, dies, and a mould for about $154 by going that route.