If you like sporterized Swedes you might like this.....

Rob

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The one on the bottom of the first photo (the top rifle is a single shot Husqvarna 30-30 with octagon barrel)

.....a vintage Swedish Mauser sporter in 6.5x55. Note: Note civilian action (no thumb cut-out), extensive engraving and checkering, real nice walnut (not a converted military stock), double set triggers, horn pistol grip, escutcheons and cross pin, side panels, etc...its all there.. the bore is good too. It is obvious that at one time it had a low bolt handle...a wood patch has been neatly fitted where the cut-out in the stock would be for this....and it is neatly drilled and tapped for a scope mount. So it might be a good idea to have a good custom gunsmith (I know at least two) weld on a low euro style bolt handle and reopen that bolt handle slot. It is drilled and tapped for a scope mount. This rifle could have been built in Sweden or Germany.

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If it had claw mounts on top of this, I'd hasard it could have been customized in Germany; it sure has the right styling. You're a lucky guy, Rob. :D
If you're going to replace the bolt or have it modified, I think Brownells sells weldable turned-down bolt handles with nice engraved and checkered patterns.
BTW, how does it shoot?
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You sure it's a Swede and not just any 1895 Mauser style action? Looks like turn of the century German to my eyes, especially with the raised receiver jowls on the side of the stock... Nicely executed, but definitely needs the bolt turned down and re-inletted. Is it a single shot, or a blind mag?
 
Finally this last week I had a good look at the rifle, carried it, shot it, etc...Its a 6.5x55...seems to have a military (stepped) Swedish Mauser M-96 barrel with the typical Husqvarna type (two screw attached) sling swivel..has a Swedish crown marked magazine follower (which functions more like a loading platform, since there is no magazine)..has a Swedish Mauser M-96 bolt (with the guide rib removed in order to fit the unslotted bridge, very professional/invisible job) in a Mauser 93 action (the one with the bolt guide rib on the inside of the left action wall..running in the slotted left bolt lug.) So, this all looks to me like it was a German rifle...since the style is classic Central European sporter of the 1900 vintage (plus or minus a few years)...that was, for some reason, rebuilt sometime in Sweden, hence the bolt, the caliber, etc. It is drilled and tapped with Weaver standard spacing. I took it all apart, had a good look at the components and put it back together...there is a lot (a lot) of custom work in this rifle...from the engraved steel buttplate to the extended tang (almost to the nose of the comb), to the double set triggers (and they work very well...even the regular front unset pull is crisp) and all the engraving on the shotgun style trigger gaurd and the inlay to the front of that, the stock wedge, the reshaping of the receiver, the drilling and tapping, the beautiful target crown on the barrel (bore is excellent), very nice folding rear open sights, etc. etc. plus the great stock with cheekpiece made from a real nice piece of European walnut with the grain running perfectly up through the wrist.....its a great rifle..I couldn't be happier with it. A classic European sporter, but in a relatively popular, accurate and very useful hunting caliber. I'll have to get a new spoon bolt handle from Brownells or somewhere similar (Meirs (sp?) makes a good one) and have a pro weld it on....cut out that patch in the stock (which I assume was put there when it was redone in Sweden), put on a minty and very bright and sharp vintage steel 4x Swarovski that I have been saving for just such a rifle... and go hunting...
 
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