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

Baribal said:
Tnx,
Let me know if ever it disappears, not sure l'll go through all the pages to re-add them, though...
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Oh No !! We would miss the pictures if they disappear. I enjoy salivating over the old Husqvarna rifles and have had to repost some of my pictures after the Photobucket fiasco.

I sure hate it when I go back to re-read articles on this and other websites just to see that awful Photobucket notice appear rather than the photos I want to see.
 
Well, I'll do my best, hopefully, my pictures will still show, but I have tons of those all over the internet... It would be hard to find where and whoch one were posted...
 
I couldn't help myself, the addiction is real.
Shooting the 9.3x57 has been everything I was hoping for; big heavy cast lead bullet, launched at medium velocities making big holes, easy to reload. The 1927 3 digit serial numbered M46 I got earlier this year is too nice to beat around in the bush and is all original, so the next logical step is to buy another 9.3x57. This M146 showed up yesterday and looks to be an excellent candidate. 1938 vintage Husqvarna built on a military FN model 1930 receiver. I take before and after pictures, so excuse the goop and schmutz and dirt on the receiver, but I was wondering about one proof mark on the receiver. It looks like a 3 bladed propeller, or Y.
I've been able to find out that the other Belgian proof marks mean, from the left or front of the receiver;

* over B; The mark of Roland Charles who was an inspector with FN from 1927 to 1959
Lion above PV; nitro proof
arrow shaped thing; The Perron used to indicate inspection or proof of breaching system.

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The receiver upper is devoid of any crests, either FN or Husqvarna. It has been drilled and tapped and came with mounts so I won't feel guilty about being "the bubba".

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It has the stripper clip cut on the bridge as well as the thumb cutout, and the bolt has the flat bottom with the cross checkering. Everything will be sitting in Varsol soon enough before the final cleaning and spit shine.
 

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The FN 98 receivers used by HVA were all new manufacture, so they were "military style" but not "military" as they have no military proof marks.
They were all scrubbed from marks, except the proof marks. The later "commercial" receivers may of may not have the Belgian proof marks removed, and they sometimes show some fainted Belgian markings left on the left side of the bolt raceway rail.
This "star" or "Y" stamp is only found on pre-"commercial" FN98 actions (and is more likley Belgian, export marks maybe?) and the Swedes did not start to use the "Nitro" proof mark before the '50s and used the "crown over letter" code until the end of WWII.
As a side note, it is not known why HVA fisrt bought the +/- 11 700 FN 98 action in the late '30's, but we may draw conclusion that it possibly was to get an eventual contract for the M/39 rifles (which were basic K98 chambered in 8X57) which never came. Then, they won the contract to revamp the M/96 in M/38-96 configuration and to build the new M/38....
 
Thanks for the info. I knew that the FN receivers were new build but read that they were patterned after their 1930 FN action. Those seem to garner a reputation as one of the finest Mauser actions built. Today I started my disassembly and cleaning of the action and as usual was impressed with the level of workmanship. She's looking prettier as the cleaning and polishing goes forward. I should look so good when I'm 79 years old.
The stocks were beech I believe, but had either a stain or darkened with age. The action had been glass bedded, and it looks like a nice job. Now to spend the next number of weeks restoring and re-oiling with BLO to give it that warm finish that only old wood and and an oiled finish can give.
 
I have an FN actioned husky with the military bottom metal. I am missing the small lock screws for the action screws. Anybody know where I can get a pair of them?

Thanks!
 
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M96, 1933, 9.3x57

beautiful rifle, CSM pad I added
 
^^^^^Trade Ex...$270...$15 pad...didn't look like that when it came...stock was sound...great bore...saving up for my next one so i can have a pair! :cheers:
 
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Many of us on here use 4X scopes well past 300 yards.

A four power scope makes a target 300 yards away appear to be the same size as that target at 75 yards. As well, the reticule and the target are in the same focal plane, so rather than trying to focus on three different points at once using iron sights, which is impossible, you see everything on the same plane.

If you can hit a target at 75 yards using iron sights, you should be able to hit the same one easier at 300 with a four power scope.
Ted
 
My right eye is weak, physical damage. I have never shot comfortably on the left. It's taken some serious work to figure out cross dominant shooting for IDPA.

At 50 yards with irons I can hit by aiming at the centre of the blur.
I'll give it a try at 200 with the 4x it came with but my concern is the flip mount and how well it will hold 0.
 
nagol said:
My right eye is weak, physical damage. I have never shot comfortably on the left. It's taken some serious work to figure out cross dominant shooting for IDPA.

At 50 yards with irons I can hit by aiming at the centre of the blur.
I'll give it a try at 200 with the 4x it came with but my concern is the flip mount and how well it will hold 0.
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I just had a very similar 640 in 8x57 d&t for bases (weaver 45/46 bases) and stuck an old Japanese Tasco 4x32 on it, shoots the bull out at 100m pretty easy with that combo.
It had the prior owners SIN# etched on the side so I didn't feel too bad about having it drilled. I swapped in a standard 2 stage military trigger on it as I can't say I'm a fan of the modified single stage these come with. Usually I fit a Timney, but too lazy these days lol.
 
Japanese Tasco's are usually pretty good scopes. Why not drill and tap an fn mauser action? I actually prefer the original 2 stage mauser trigger, it is much safer and easier to maintain than a commercial trigger.
 
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