New Batch of Swedes

The swedes are great shooters.. I bought 5 from the first of the major imports and bought a carbine later.. They all shoot great.. The mismatched bolt does really alter the rifles accuracy if the headspace checks out. It becomes a red flag that the rifle needs top be checked, that's all. All of the rifles I sporterized for others were shooters, one going under .3 inches regularly with handloads.. I kept 3 '96s original, one an original oberdorf contract rifle.. The carbine I bought locally. The guy was using it for deer hunting and it just cost too much to sporterize. He asked $35 for it,,I didn't quibble! It's in great original shape but does have the stock modification for the bayonet and the bayonet lug itself.. I even lucked into an original bayonet for the carbine.. That's a hard one to find!!

gunnut69; When you say carbine which one is it? Is it a M96/38 which would be a Carl Gustaf or Obendorf that started life out as an M96 and I believe if the way the number system is right they were modified and cut in 1938 into carbines. Thus model 1896 and modified in 1938 makes it a "96/38". If its a Husqvarna its an orginal "new production" M38's these were made in the 40's. Now there is a carbine that was made before everything back in 1894 its the little M94 carbine. There were many fakes made of the M94 too by cutting down the others. If you have an orginal M94 and you paid $35 for it you did great!!! I'll give you $40 for it? No just kidding. I have been eyeing the 7mm M94 the swede's made for south america. BigBill

There are some of the mauser guru's who say the only orginal mauser is the Obendorf. I guess back in the old days there was competition between the mauser manfacturers in Germany as to who's was the best. I don't dispute anything i like them all. :-D

The stock disc tells the accuracy and some of my swede's have up to three changes made on the stock disc. Now there is another marking to see how many times its been repaired too there are crowns near the trigger guard stamped in the wood. The more crowns the more its been repaired. The only way i would believe the stock disc is if the wood is serial numbered to gun and its 100% all matching otherwise its miss matched so there's less chance the stock disc/crowns/stock is correct all to the gun. I never checked all of my swede's to see if the wood matches but i do have one thats 100% all matching with a bright bore and she's a pretty one too. You don't see these that often and its the first all matching one i have ever seen. The most common thing is the bolt matches the reciever and thats as far as it goes with most swede's I have seen lately and most of the hardware is all not matching too.