Husqvarna Sporting Rifles #### - ALL MODELS!!!
- Thread starter Baribal
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dgradinaru
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- British Columbia
One and done with the 8x57 195gr interlock at 2570 fps out of a 22 inch barrel at 209 yards. Young bull didn't make it 20 yards before toppling over in seconds. Perfect performance. Lungs were petrified. Bullet found on the offside. No meat damage.
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To troll and get everyone's attention: a cheesy cellphone picture taken under workbench flourescent lights in my basement:
My friend/gunsmith made that rifle for me as he ventured into stockmaking from scratch about 50 years into his gunsmithing career. It was just fitting drop in stocks prior to that - better late than never, and he quickly got very good at it. The original rifle was a Mannlicher stocked Husky in 30-06, and I already have enough 30-06 rifles including a Husky, my first Husqvarna purchased in the early 1970s. So it's now a .35 Whelan with a one piece Mannlicher stock with nicer lines than it originally had with the original two piece stock in my opinion.
(I was tempted to have it be a .35 Newton, but resisted the temptation as my Husqvarna .358 Norma Magnum Husky is now telling me I'm getting too old and frail to shrug off that level of recoil in rifles that light)
The only thing from that the original rifle that was used was the receiver and action; the stock, barrel, floorplate and triggerguard, buttplate, stock cap, etc were set aside. The bolt was modified to be similar in shape to the Mannlicher-Styre version to replace the original round ball and the foreend cap was fabricated from scratch. A Mauser steel triggerguard/floorplate was used rather than the alloy on the original rifle (thank you Baribel). Mounts are my favorites, Cone-Trol and I sourced a like-now Leopold 3-9 Compact with standard crosshairs, no duplex.
And it shoots (as rifles he builds always do)! The initial load of 4064 and the Barnes 200 gr. TTSX I threw together as soon as I got it home to at least get it sighted in to go hunting, punched out that one inch group at the top of that target while producing 2800 fps. That was off my jacket and a piece of wood; I was in such a hurry I forgot my benchrest bags. I saw that, declared load develop was complete (thankfully, given the price of bullets like Barnes these days), and have been hunting with it ever since.
Anyways... now that I have your attention: I had the rifle back to his place a couple of weeks ago to visit and have him do some fine tuning on the cartridge feeding; mating the Mauser triggerguard/floorplate to the receiver didn't go as perfectly as he planned.
He did get it sorted out in short order, but after doing so and looking at his work back in his hands, my friend/gunsmith just told me he has decided he could build an even nicer resulting rifle if he did the same thing a second time. And I said "I'm in!"
Sooo... does anybody have a spare action laying around i.e. the 4000, 5000, 1600 series like the Husky series and this Mannlicher (which appears to be an identical action) that they're interested in selling at a reasonable price? The same slide side safety?
I don't need the triggerguard/floorplate parts as this one will also be getting a Mauser in replacement that can be blued, rather than the original alloy.
I started looking at the rifles currently offered for sale at Intersurplus - pretty nice prices! But I'd prefer not to buy a fully functional complete rifle and make it completely dysfunctional simply to get just the action from the rifle.
The easiest option is to just give him this rifle to re-stock again as all the metalwork is done. But then I won't have my 35 Whelan to use while he's doing all of that - he takes off for the warmer climates now when winter arrives, so projects get put on hold when he's away from his shop.
Anyways; exploring my alternatives here. Might as well ask at the same time if anyone has one of the leaf sights and ramp front sights kicking around in a parts box as well - he modified the iron sights when he built the rifle in order to be able to use the open sights with the scope removed from the bases.
Anyways; thanks for looking. Some of you may notice that I've been in several Gunputz forums the last two days sourcing parts for him to have a second go at building this rifle.
Time to head out for the evening hunt... elk season is close to closing and I haven't seen much up until now.
My friend/gunsmith made that rifle for me as he ventured into stockmaking from scratch about 50 years into his gunsmithing career. It was just fitting drop in stocks prior to that - better late than never, and he quickly got very good at it. The original rifle was a Mannlicher stocked Husky in 30-06, and I already have enough 30-06 rifles including a Husky, my first Husqvarna purchased in the early 1970s. So it's now a .35 Whelan with a one piece Mannlicher stock with nicer lines than it originally had with the original two piece stock in my opinion.
(I was tempted to have it be a .35 Newton, but resisted the temptation as my Husqvarna .358 Norma Magnum Husky is now telling me I'm getting too old and frail to shrug off that level of recoil in rifles that light)
The only thing from that the original rifle that was used was the receiver and action; the stock, barrel, floorplate and triggerguard, buttplate, stock cap, etc were set aside. The bolt was modified to be similar in shape to the Mannlicher-Styre version to replace the original round ball and the foreend cap was fabricated from scratch. A Mauser steel triggerguard/floorplate was used rather than the alloy on the original rifle (thank you Baribel). Mounts are my favorites, Cone-Trol and I sourced a like-now Leopold 3-9 Compact with standard crosshairs, no duplex.
And it shoots (as rifles he builds always do)! The initial load of 4064 and the Barnes 200 gr. TTSX I threw together as soon as I got it home to at least get it sighted in to go hunting, punched out that one inch group at the top of that target while producing 2800 fps. That was off my jacket and a piece of wood; I was in such a hurry I forgot my benchrest bags. I saw that, declared load develop was complete (thankfully, given the price of bullets like Barnes these days), and have been hunting with it ever since.
Anyways... now that I have your attention: I had the rifle back to his place a couple of weeks ago to visit and have him do some fine tuning on the cartridge feeding; mating the Mauser triggerguard/floorplate to the receiver didn't go as perfectly as he planned.
He did get it sorted out in short order, but after doing so and looking at his work back in his hands, my friend/gunsmith just told me he has decided he could build an even nicer resulting rifle if he did the same thing a second time. And I said "I'm in!"
Sooo... does anybody have a spare action laying around i.e. the 4000, 5000, 1600 series like the Husky series and this Mannlicher (which appears to be an identical action) that they're interested in selling at a reasonable price? The same slide side safety?
I don't need the triggerguard/floorplate parts as this one will also be getting a Mauser in replacement that can be blued, rather than the original alloy.
I started looking at the rifles currently offered for sale at Intersurplus - pretty nice prices! But I'd prefer not to buy a fully functional complete rifle and make it completely dysfunctional simply to get just the action from the rifle.
The easiest option is to just give him this rifle to re-stock again as all the metalwork is done. But then I won't have my 35 Whelan to use while he's doing all of that - he takes off for the warmer climates now when winter arrives, so projects get put on hold when he's away from his shop.
Anyways; exploring my alternatives here. Might as well ask at the same time if anyone has one of the leaf sights and ramp front sights kicking around in a parts box as well - he modified the iron sights when he built the rifle in order to be able to use the open sights with the scope removed from the bases.
Anyways; thanks for looking. Some of you may notice that I've been in several Gunputz forums the last two days sourcing parts for him to have a second go at building this rifle.
Time to head out for the evening hunt... elk season is close to closing and I haven't seen much up until now.
