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Originally Posted by LVSteve
 You were sporterising actual complete rifles?!?! I thought the story on these was that the Swedes sold off their spare actions and odd target rifles for conversion, not the collectible full stocked military variants. You had best go into hiding before the Swede Mauser Collecting Mafia track you down. 
I have tried to snag one of these conversions at auction but they always fetch too much money for my wallet. |
LOL - Yep, we had "collectable" full stock military variants that we "butchered"
to turn into inexpensive hunting rifles. Some of these surplus rifles were in near arsenal fresh condition with all numbers matching.
Qball:
I kept the one full length rifle (stamped 1918) as representative of what my Great Grandfather (a member of the Swedish Royal Guard) would have been issued. I still (15 years later) haven't fired it, and it's in pretty good condition.
I understand that the 6.5x55 Swede is used to hunt Elg (is that the correct word?) out your way - i.e. the European Moose. Is that correct?