5-Shot
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Years ago I worked with a cotton merchant who carried one when he was in the Swedish resistance/underground during WWII. Wish I had taken more time and gotten some stories out of him.
Ed
Ed
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Test your gun knowledge - what izzit?
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"...he played the Dr. in "The Shootist""
Waaal, that was Jimmy Stewart. Can't think of the movie though.
Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
If no one knows the movie today, I'll reveal it this evening. The movie is on youtube and you get to see the Lahti in that clip and I will admit in a quite menacing role. Also in the same movie there is a Mauser pistol sighting, not an Hsc but a 1914/34 by the looks of it. One more clue for the day. The word "Ambrose Chapel"
Yeah, not quite fair...
BTW, I like your flag avatar, Swede. Of course, they probably don't call you that where you live.
Q-ball, what is the current military pistol there?
The current military pistol is the Glock 17 (m88) and 19 (m88b)
They are the only ones that would take our "red 9mm"
Originaly for the submachine gun M45
ralph7
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so if a lahti was sent back to the factory for repairs, could you say it was re-finnished?
Texas Star
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So do I, especially considering that Sweden was neutral and had no "underground"!
Do you mean that he slipped across the border and helped the Norwegians, who were Nazi-occupied?
Even now, Norway is a member of NATO. I believe that Sweden remains unaffliated.
Hope that Q-Ball doesn't take that the wrong way: some countries are simply neutral, like Sweden and Switzerland. But they have in general shared Western values and trade. They were not associated with the former Warsaw Pact nations at all.
Texas Star
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Cute pun, but for clarity, you probably need to phrase that as re-Finnished. (For the L-35 Finn version.)
I do like the pun. Got a laugh there.
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ralph7
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trench gun in 30-06 from ww1?
There's neutral and there's " neutral " I remember my father telling me stories of things that he was involved with in Switzerland towards the end of the war.He never got over his hatred of the germans.
So do I, especially considering that Sweden was neutral and had no "underground"!
Do you mean that he slipped across the border and helped the Norwegians, who were Nazi-occupied?
Even now, Norway is a member of NATO. I believe that Sweden remains unaffliated.
Hope that Q-Ball doesn't take that the wrong way: some countries are simply neutral, like Sweden and Switzerland. But they have in general shared Western values and trade. They were not associated with the former Warsaw Pact nations at all.
No problems friend
I would not realy call Sweden neutral, as many Swedish "Highrollers" where pro Nazi
"We" shipped steel to Germany during tha war
"We" sent German troops on train through Sweden
But i Do know that my Grandfather fought the Russians at Hangö.
Lot's of Swedish volontairs during the Finnish war's
a tur-lette gun? (as archie bunker would call it)
Thanks, Qball - I've done some reading up on the Swedish M40 Lahti, and found that the steel used was not quite the same as used in the Finnish guns due to lack of availability of certain metals. This, combined with the use of hot ammo made for submachine guns did result in some cracks. My understanding is that the Swedish government destroyed about 50,000 of these guns when the Glock was adopted for service use. That's sad, because these are very serviceable and interesting guns designed for use in cold weather. On some, the accelerator was removed; mine does have the accelerator intact, which gives the breechblock an added "kick" so it will function with ammo which might have reduced power due to extreme cold.
Yes, Husqvarna did make iron stoves, and the pistol is substantially made and heavy - I do understand why the nickname was applied!
By the way, the sights on the M40 are excellent - very easy to pick up, and calibrated perfectly for 25 yards.
John
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1945 is my best guess, too, based on interpolation of total output divided by the five years of production. I suspect the higher production rates were achieved before 1946, making 1945 the probable year of manufacture of this particular pistol.
John
Texas Star
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Wonder what became of the Walther P-38/HP pistols they bought as their M-39 until the Germans quit exporting them, due to war needs.
I read that Swedish UN troops in the Congo in the 1960's were still using the old Browning M-1907 pistols.
I read that Swedish UN troops in the Congo in the 1960's were still using the old Browning M-1907 pistols.
5-Shot
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Texas Star,
I may have muddled my response. I did not know Borje well, but I knew him well enough to trust that whatever he told me was true. All I remember specifically is that he fought somewhere up in that part of the world, he was a Swede but wasn't a member to the Swedish military and that he carried a Lahti. Maybe it was in Finland but that isn't what I remember. The last time I talked to him was in the mid 80's so there's a chance I've lost more than a few of the details.
Ed
I may have muddled my response. I did not know Borje well, but I knew him well enough to trust that whatever he told me was true. All I remember specifically is that he fought somewhere up in that part of the world, he was a Swede but wasn't a member to the Swedish military and that he carried a Lahti. Maybe it was in Finland but that isn't what I remember. The last time I talked to him was in the mid 80's so there's a chance I've lost more than a few of the details.
Ed
You are correct!!! Qball from Sweden!!!
"The man who knew too much" 1956. Also Starring Doris Day.
Go to Youtube and lookup THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
I would post a link but unsure if that is frowned upon here.
The Assasin uses one in the movie and gets it slapped out of his hand by Stewart's character. A very menacing scene where the barrel of the Lahti starts to poke through the curtain slowly.
That looks like a French lebel of some sort. I would say it was for the trenchs in WW1
