Swedish Husqvarna M38 6.5x55mm Mausers - Lots of pictures

Lots of beautiful Swedes in this thread!


Here is my collection:
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m/41b built on a 1915 Carl Gustafs
1900 Oberndorf m/96
1900 Oberndorf m/96-38
1943 Carl Gustafs AG42b (Sold it, regrettably. I bought a new one though)
 
nice guns, i have a 1903 carl gustav M96, not as rare as your guns but i still like it, its in almost as nice condition as yours, but the bolt was turned down at least he did a nice job of it, but it does decrease the value.
 
Jeez, my old beaters just moved closer to the "lampstand" pile! :p

Kidding aside, I have a nice 1944 M38 Husky. No need to post a pic.

I came home from BC one time, years back, with a small train case filled with Swedish surplus ammo. Needless to say, I "carried on" with that one! ;)

Edit: That was on No.2 VIA!
 
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I remember Alan Lever's store in the mid-80's, when he still had that small store downtown. Swedish 96 Mausers were $40. and the Husqvarna 38s were $45. If you bought a few, he would give you a further discount on those prices. And you could hand pick your rifles. I bought maybe a dozen over a decade as prices slowly rose. Should have bought all he had.

I used to laugh at the old guys with their stories of cheap 98 Mausers, etc. that they had bought back in the day...and now I'm one of those guys!

(Lever also sold nice hex receiver Mosin-Nagants for $20.)

Merry Christmas.


big bear said:
Those were the days! I used to stop by his store downtown Saturday mornings before going to the library to study all day. Got a few sweet deals that way, he said it was good luck to sell something to the first customer of the day.Wish I wasn't a student then, good times:cheers:
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can14 said:
Allen Lever had a few thousand of the m38's in mint condition. I have a few from him. Some threaded and non thread barrels.
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They weren't mint. I helped pick out those rifles and they had all been FTRed before being put into storage. They were as close to excellent as we could find. I spent several days in Montreal at the International Firearms warehouse. It was like being in a dream. The stuff in there was mind boggling. Everything from supposed rarities/antiques to modern assault rifles. It was a sad day for Canada and a huge black mark against the Liberal Party when they moved south of the border.

They were the nicest rifles in that batch. We got to pick through them before they were shipped to the US. Some of the M38s had 5x7in targets rolled up in plastic in the chambers. Those were heady times. I miss them. Getting to go through that warehouse was like taking a special trip back through history. Crate after crate of bayonets, slings, ammo pouches, uniforms, kit of all sorts, even old telephones and semaphores. One whole section devoted to hand guns, one to ammo etc. It looked like there was enough to last forever.

As for nice Mosins. Most of the mosins that came in were not great. Most had badly pitted bores and beat to hell stocks. Of course, some of them were FTRed but very few of them. The Soviets were still holding onto the best ones for themselves and selling of the rest to the surplus markets. The worst looking mosins came out of Korea and China.

Actually some of the best rifles were the Italian offerings. The Italians took very good care of their stuff.

I could go on and on but it always brings a tear to my eye.
 
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