I’ve got a nice M94 with all the parts needed to put it back to issue. I’m planning on using a Prestige stock and my hope is to find someone to fit the stock. Any thoughts on who? It’s beyond my skill set and I don’t have the time anyway
Swede M94 restoration
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They aren’t all that hard to build. Prestigious stock wood is fairly close. Basic wood working tools needed. If you’ve never worked with wood that could be a problem.
I use their forestocks to rebuild Lee Enfield’s so have enough knowledge that it’s easy for me to do. Basic tools needed are sandpaper and scrapers. I use a Dremel but don’t recommend it unless you have a lot of experience with it as screw ups happen quickly.
Do it yourself and learn. Then you can set down and look at it and see and have the feeling of accomplishment.
I use their forestocks to rebuild Lee Enfield’s so have enough knowledge that it’s easy for me to do. Basic tools needed are sandpaper and scrapers. I use a Dremel but don’t recommend it unless you have a lot of experience with it as screw ups happen quickly.
Do it yourself and learn. Then you can set down and look at it and see and have the feeling of accomplishment.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
I have what is probably an early Prestigious M94 stock - I got it from a guy who sent his original to them for "patterning" and he received five copies in return - not a single hole or slot cut in the wood will fit to the part that goes there - maybe it was done on purpose that way? Several times while swearing at it and getting the next thing to fit, I have asked self why I did not just make a stock in the first place - probably easier to do - this is a m94-14 with the bayonet mount at the front - not an ordinary m94, which did not accept bayonets, until Swede arsenal overhaul in 1914.
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
The Swede 94 carbines are neat fer sure. Never got to own one but had a Spanish M95 carbine for a spell that was done up in 7.62 NATO.
I never fired factory 308 Win or milsurp ammo in 'er but used reduced pressure loads to cover me arse.
I never fired factory 308 Win or milsurp ammo in 'er but used reduced pressure loads to cover me arse.
That might become a bit of a legal grey area. Its permanently affixed, not sure with what, but it's also not rifled, so I don't know if technically part of the barrel or not. It would probably have to be parted on the lathe and recrowned. The barrel is already under 18.5 anyways though, so it's a bit of a weird case.
- Location
- Western Manitoba
^^ That is interesting - some years ago I got a replacement m94 barrel from TradeEx - was too short to make 18" minimum - there was a time in USA that an owner could have a thing welded to end of barrel to "make length" - that was allowed by the laws of that place and that time. However, although I could take a full length (29"??) m96 Swede barrel and turn it down to exactly match the carbine barrel - it would not have had that Swede Arsenal mark - so what I would have made would have been "my work', not the factory's work, therefore that is not "allowed", here. That barrel also screwed on, without issue, to many other small ring Mauser receivers - they did not have to be originally chambered to 6.5x55 - I do recall specifically a Mexican Mauser that would accept it, and a Chilean 1895 Mauser. I had never considered what effect there would be to remove that formerly legal addition to the barrel. That "addition" may not have ever made a difference in Canada, but it apparently did, in at least some parts of USA.
The M94 carbines were being imported into the US when the NFA still required rifles to be 18", so they needed to weld that extra 3/8" of donut onto the 17.7" barrel to get it over legal length. That's why I'm wondering where it sits in the legal grey area, does it technically count as shortening the barrel if you aren't really removing barrel to begin with. I'm sure you could probably just crown it down back to 17.7" no problem, but some legal eagle smiths may not take the job just cause it's under 18.5" to begin with.
