The story of a Husqvarna…

DGY

DGY

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That’s how it goes,
A great friend(whynot) bought a Husqvarna mod 98 in 9.3x57 with a nice old 1.5-4 Pecard scope on claw mounts. He decided he wanted an other 9.3x62 so got the rifle re chambered to that and then decided to gift it to me after seeing how much I loved the thing and how well it fitted me.
I tried really hard to make that gun shoot but nothing would actually work so I told Ted that I would give him the rifle back…
Ted decided to get it rebarreled by Bill Leeper in 30-06 with a take off barrel that came from Corythecowboy.
So off she goes to the spa!
Bill is a busy man so it took a while for the rifle to come back. Bill worked its magic, spinning that barrel on and reinstalling the sights and a barrel band front sling, worked the trigger a little and then she made her way back north! And into my hands yesterday!
I cleaned it really well and managed to go to the range today, first shot at 25m to confirm zero then 2 shots at a 100m the fine tune where I wanted it(3” high at 100m) and then a five shot group cause everyone knows it is the only way to do it 😉😎 and here is the result, first 3 shots in less than 5/8” then 2 more shots for a total of 5 in just under an inch a 100m from the bench, with an old scope at 4x with a German no1 reticle and the least expensive ammo I could find, norma whitetail 180 soft points. So I’m pretty darn happy to say the least rifle as is weight in 7lbs 12oz and has a flip flop recoil pad!!
So some times you don’t need a $2000+ set up to be accurate!!
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Most people today just don't realize how good those old 98 type actions can be.

I really like them, even the surplus milspec types, which can, with some elbow grease and TLC, be turned into very capable and dependable hunting rifles.

Nice shooting DGY, Mr Leeper knows his stuff pretty well, and if the bore is capable of good accuracy, he will do what he can to put it into the receiver in such a manner, it will retain the capability. Just takes time, and care, matched with a good skillset.
 
Just an update on the old rifle…
Last week we went to our moose hunting spot and on day four of being out there sitting at the fire just after supper, one looking down stream the other looking upstream, chatting along, scanning the land regularly, all the sudden I saw a bull moose standing in the middle of the river appeared from no where 🫣😎!
Grabbed the old husky with its 1.5-4x pecar scope and started to walk the high bank along the river to where I would have a good shot and somewhat closing in the distance while my buddy took a hold of his dog just in case…
The spot I was going for is about 60m upstream from camp, a spot I got 3 other moose from in the past years.
Anyway the moose is still standing in the middle of the river looking towards camp but with a strong wind at his back. From camp he is quartering towards us but the river bent nearly 90 degrees coming down to us so moving up stream put me in a quartering to that wasn’t as agressive. Took a rest against a tree, scope cracked to 4x 🙄🤣, put the tip of the post(German no1 reticle) on his chest and let go, the 190gn Speer impact hit him well, but I did fire an other shot just to make sure he wasn’t going anywhere. He pretty much fell where he was standing, about 180-190m from me. Fell down in the shallow river…

I went back to camp to get ready and gear up for the work ahead, noticing that the moose was somewhat coming down river slowly. We thought we had time to gear up and then paddle up steam to rope him but we didn’t that thing was coming down faster than we liked so we grabbed the top come along and jump in the canoe to get to him before he got somewhere we didn’t want to 🙄.
As we made our way up he stopped on a shallow spot where we could ferry just downstream of him using it as an eddy to tie the rope to its antlers. Ferried back to shore and walked up stream to a spot that looked descent for field dressing(downstream is all high banks where field dressing would have been a night mare).

After a bit of cranking on the rope come along handle for a bit we got him where we liked. Went back to camp to get all the gear and back up to the moose to start the work!!
Shot was around 7:15, we got back to camp all packed up and cleaned up at about 10:30.
90% of the work was done in the dark with head lamps( so thank full that we have great headlamps now a day, not like 20 years ago when head lamps were more like strapping a couple candles to you forehead 😂) .

We leave the meat in the canoe over night and the canoe in the water so the meat can cool down real quick. To prevent the meat to sit in its blood we arrange a few saplings on the bottom of the boat. That night the temps went down to -2c so we didn’t worry about the meat, we never worry about the meat 🤪.

Next morning had breakfast, break up camp rearrange the meat in the canoe and loaded my canoe with all the gear plus the moose head.
Paddled back to the truck with heavy canoes and happy hunters.
Meat is now hanging in my shop and we will start butchering tomorrow.
It was an other great hunting trip even better we were successful!
Making our way up river. We line our canoes up river to our camp spot from gravel bars to gravel bars ferrying when we ran out of gravel bars to the one across from us.
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Hopefully people don’t figure out where we were…. And if so keep it to them self 😎
 
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Here is one of the bullets and some numbers for the one that could be interested.
Bullet is a 30cal Speer impact 190gn going out at 2730+fps.
The bullet maintained 76% of its mass and expended 2.7x so from .308 to .826
Distance was about 180-190m
Not sure what was the impact velocity but it would be easy to find out.
One bullet went through the top of the brisket/bottom of the ribs taking the heart, the second shot went through a large rib taking the lungs, no exit holes. A bit more blood shot meat that I like, but all in all not bad at all.

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DGY said:
Ted decided to get it rebarreled by Bill Leeper in 30-06 with a take off barrel that came from Corythecowboy.
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shoots like a custom of some sort?

jsut read the story, attago. Nice of him to wait 4 days so you had some camp time, hate it when things end too soon :)
Not really the typical vibrant fall colours for the area ? or tricks of the photos maybe
 
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Morc said:
I know a few people who just wanted a cheap rifle and where shocked at the quality of these Swedish rifles for what they paid. It's the only gun they own and don't desire anything else.
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I bought one in 30-06, when I still had a Howa 1500 in the same caliber. The Howa was a great gun, but as soon as I had the Husky, the Howa went on EE.
 
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Morc said:
I know a few people who just wanted a cheap rifle and were shocked at the quality of these Swedish rifles for what they paid. It's the only gun they own and don't desire anything else.
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If I had only access to one rifle I would be happy with that one. I don’t care for plastic and ceracoat, I don’t care for big scope, fancy xmas 🎄 reticles and large tall turrets. That gun shoots well, carries well, fit me well, is lightish, overall there is no need for more… don’t get me wrong I have my eyes on a project for a new rifle… I swear it will be my last rifle 🫣
 
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