Husqvarna Sporting Rifles #### - ALL MODELS!!!

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go there for more infos; http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=198167

Just to clarify the subject, 1640 is the generic name for the action (the Improved Mauser) and for all rifles with 600mm and 560mm barrels including 3000/3100 series, the 1600 series is the short barreled (520mm) action including the 4000/4100/456/458 seires. The long barreled actions (650mm barrel) were called 1651 and these only made in .358 Norma Magnum.

The make it easy; all the 1600/1640/1651 series used the same action but have different barrels lenght.

Dask77,
That's very correct to me, I am not against modifications, but as a collector POV, I must give the typical warnings when it comes to value. I am 100% with you especially if this can make the rifle your favourite arm.
 
Thank you, I'll check out the Photo bucket's.

Great info on the numbers and history too, that last post brought things together quite a bit better, as far as what the model numbers mean.
 
i just got a 1640 from trade ex and the bolt seems loose or jiggly when open, my other bolt actions are quite rigid, is this normal? has the bolt been switched?
 
Not sure how to post pics on here but I have a Husky .308 with ser.#1702xx and my father has one in .30-06 with the mannlicher stock (beautiful gun) with ser.# 2384xx A. Can anyone tell me any info on these? Thanks guys and thanks for all your other info in this thread.....very informative.
 
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r.d.m.
All Mausers are somewhat "loose" when the bolt is fully opened. Nothing wrong with it.

Prairiehunter,
Without pictures it will be very hard to tell anything more than the year of manufacture of both rifles. I can't even tell you if the Helstock (the full-stock) is original or not. Go there for istruction on how to post pics.http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=198167
Your first rifle was made in 1954 and the second end of 1959.
You can look at the posted pictures for similar models and from there, have an idea of what you get.
 
jackpine said:
How many in Left Hand were produced and is this a Model 3000 ?

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The iron sights were removed and a J.P.Suhl recoil pad was installed.
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My rifle is absolutely identical to yours, except mine was rechambered to .300WM. Different scope and recoil pad too, but that's it!

I'll post some pics later.
 
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Okay, here is mine! I think Jackpine's is slightly darker coloured.

It's exciting to find out that left-hand versions are so rare. I found mine at a gun show. I was just browsing around, broke as could be, and stumbled across it. The price tag was $750, so I just had a quiet sad moment of knowing that I couldn't afford it and I wouldn't be seeing one of these again for a long time. I had been looking out for something like a left-hand tikka 695 for a while, and this fit the bill.

I thought that an offer was worth a try, so I went to the bank and got all the money I could possibly spare. I went back to the gun show while it was closing, and pulled $400 out of my pocket. Being a lefty, the seller wasn't planning to hang onto it, and he knew that he was going to either sell it to me, or not sell it that day. After trying to bargain with me, he understood that it was all I had and reluctantly agreed to the deal.

The next day, I called him to follow up about the transfer. He was full of regret, as he looked back in his books and realized how much he lost on the deal. I got really lucky on that one. I went on to take my first big-game animal with that rifle.

Being such a light .300 win mag, it feels like a cannon!

The serial is 623###. It is a "HVA - Carl Gustaf, forenade fabriksverken" Can anyone tell me anything about my rifle?

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Well, I don't know exactly what you want to know, but your rifle is the same model as the previous one, i.e. the "Grade II" of the "Trofé" series. Made around 1975. The left handed version are not "rare" but "not common". If the rifle was rechambered, than the value went down too for a collector, by the same occasion.
 
Well, 1900 is the name of the action itself, just like the 1640. The HVA model designation was 1970, but this was before the merge with CG (into FFV). FFV / HVA / Carl Gustav rather used names such as Grade I (i.e. Standard, Monte-Carlo), Grade II (i.e. Trofé, Lyx) and Grade III (Presentation)... with the other designation giving the trim type; Standard, MC, Trofé, Lyx, Presentation....
Anyhow, yes, it's a 1900.
 
1640 info

hello everyone! If there are any husqie experts or owners= Bought 2 1640's and 2 .22lr singles. # 1 ser#242###A? why the A? #2 ser#319### with crosspins? seen alot on the net with pins so they were probably done at the factory? was this an option to further reinforce the stock or was the stock bogus? and they tried to fix it? I live in Montreal and planning on shooting them. Theyre in verygood to excellent condition but im looking at glass bedding(maybe paranoid) so i need a reputable Gunsmith (in montreal) that works on husqies. How much does bedding cost? should I or not?? Thnx from a newbie! B2012
 
The first one is a more than averege figured wood for a 1640 Std. That's a very nice catch. It was made in 1960 and the "A" was an internal HVA reference.
The second rifle is a 1640K, a utilitarian grade of rifle. The receiver is not polished like the theother 1640/1600 series, it was sanblasted then blued. The absence of checkering art the pistol grip and fore end is a singularity of the 1640, too (there was also an export model named "Laponia" wich is quite identical). This one was made on the last year of production, 1967.

Regarding the crosspins, HVA used them on the higher grade models and later expanded the trend to all the production.
If there is no evidence of cracks in the web between the trigger and magazine wells, then, there is no real need to bed the action. Just make sure the action screws are always tight and it should give you plenty of years of reliable fun.
I personally prefer full-lenght bedding for these rifles, but I don't re-bed them unless there is real evidence of bedding problems.
 
thanks for the informative and reassuring reply Baribal! theres another one im looking at from you know where, that has the crosspin but with checkered pistgrip but the action looks polished, she looks sweet too with some straight flowing lines vg+ in my newbie opinion. Looking forward to learning alot from this site, i also thought it was a laponia at the beginning maybe it is? would it be labelled laponia? gonna post some pics of the 2 .22lrs that i bought soon theyre sweet too. I wonder what the hva internal reference was regarding that A?? that sounds like a hard one to find out. thnx B2012
 
I'm 100% sure it's not a Laponia but a 1640K. Laponia were marked as such and made for export. Also, the Laponia have a 560mm barrel (22.047"). Anyways, except for the stamping and barrel lenght, the 1640K and the Laponia are about the same rifles.
As for the letter in the serial numbers, there we still have to find an explaination for that, but I can tell you that a lot of export rifles have a letter in the S/N (but yours is definitely not an export model).

To respect the Forum rules, I think you will have to post your rimfire pictures in the rimfire section.
 
thanks for the laponia info baribal, everytime i come to this site i learn(luv that!) i wont post any rimmies here, thnx for the heads ups on that! now im really curious for that A ser#, gonna search and see, gls bedding out of my mind now, dont see any reason to do it everything looks solid, have to shoot it, and we'll take it from there! one of my relatives recommended husqvarnas and ive been pleasantly surprised with the quality of steel, stock fit and finish and most of all the availability. Looks like im gonna grab what i can now. i would imagine that there would be a day that they wouldnt be around as much, on my road to building my collection with help from this site. thnx B2012
 
As I said, tthe 1640K is a different model from the Laponia. It is quite unlikely that we find a Laponia imported here, unless it comes from a private import (from Germany). They are similar but not the same.
And no, the pad is not standard, the bakelite buttplate is what they orignally had.

The HVA rifles were much scarcer when I started to collect them tweinty something years ago... Trade Ex have changed this suituation a lot. Some models / calibers are much looked after while other will stay a common sight for years.
As I said regarding the letters in S/N, even the Husqvarna Museum book does not provide informations on the subject, so, unless it can be proven by official documents, any explanation will be speculation.
 
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