Thank you for being here my friend.

Hi Greg - I have no doubt there is no better rifle than a Husqvarna Mauser.

Finnish gun factories like tikka and sako, used swedish steel from the 1930s onwards as it was the best available. Finnish mosin nagant barrels for example were made of this steel. Post war, all finnish gun makers, started using this steel, not just for barrels, but for every part found in their guns! Tikka m55, m65 and sako L579 are great finnish examples of this steel, put into good use. From some finnish war time documents I've read, there was disputes over using steel of worse quality for barrels, as it took way longer to machine barrels, from this much harder swedish steel, compared to some "lesser" steels. In the end army rifle depots, concluded that the barrel life, offered by the superior swedish steel, more than made up for the long machining time it required, as barrels made of worse steels, would have lead into the army needing more infrastructure, which didn't exist, nor could be build, in tight war time economy, to produce bigger amounts of replacement barrels for all weapons ranging from pistols to heavy machineguns. Thought this might be of interest for you. :)

Greg Kerr If it is the Swedish steel from Kiruna, it is the best steel ever manufactured, because of the high degree of purity. I have read elsewhere that 80 per cent of the European main battle tanks are made of the Swedish steel from Kiruna. The town Kiruna was actually built with the only purpose of the mining, and now they are moving the town in order to continue the mining under the town, undermining the land.

I know I'm late but one thing from ww2 is Germany bought a large quantity of their steel for the war effort from the swedish and was one of the reasons Sweden was able to remain neutral during the war. I'm not sure of the quality but I'm definitely going to agree if Germany went with at least a portion of steel from them.

30-06 is best cartridge.

I have always been a 30.06 fan myself. So many good guns chambered for it and so much good factory ammo around for it. My grandfather hunted all over the world in the late 40's and 50's and he told me stories of working on a Govt. job at a small Airport / rocket launching facility in Manitoba right on the Hudson bay in 1950. Said he hunted, Polar Bear, Caribou, Geese , Ducks, seals with a borrowed 12 gauge and a Army Surplus 30.06 P17 Enfield he bought for $14.00. I still have the gun to this day.

Incredibly accurate rifles as well. I have two M96 FSR rifles outfitted with diopters

@@alanb2845 Yes indeed!

Thanks Donald.

Hi darren - I agree - Sweden can make the best.

Thanks Robert

Thank you!

Magnificent rifle.

Hello Bert - Beautiful Sweden - amazing nation - amazing people - I have many hunters and shooters that write me from your great country. I hope to visit one day. Thank you for your kind words. I wish you and yours - the best - always.

Thanks for subscribing Greg. You have 2 classic and near perfect rifles. The 1894 is a legend and the Husqvarna is tops among bolt action Mausers. Your's sounds like a Crown Grade - but it could be an Imperial - both are supreme rifles and both continue to go up in value and become more and more scarce. .308 is hard to find.

Stunning! - great cal., great action and great stock. You just can't go wrong.

They are near perfect Glen - back when they were made and still now. Untouched by time. A new barrel if needed and maybe a stock and they are as good as new.

Thanks Rick!

Best for 2019 to you and yours Paul!

Hi Paul - Glad we have some matching guns. Your Crown Grade in .243 is a real gem and so hard to find. The Lyman #1 is another unicorn....amazing that one made it to Australia. BTW - I spent a lot of time in Australia - fabulous country and people. Thanks for the note.

Thank you

Timeless and excellent - but you know already : )

Okay - will do!

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns Yes I love these, probably the most impressively well built and beautifully aged item I've ever seen in person.

Thank you Tomas! I'm relieved that Sweden continues - what a tragedy if the Sweden that has accomplished so much is somehow compromised or diluted into something else. Some of the notes I received from Sweden were alarming. The very best to you.

You bet - as good as it gets

Hello Lukas! That is exciting : first rifle! Please let me know the correct Swedish pronunciation. I receive so many different instructions on what pronunciation is correct. From Sweden must come the actual correct way. : )

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns yea im very excited! Hard to explain the sound but it would be something like: hyousquarna :)

Hello Fred J - Congratulations on achieving your hunting license; many years of happy and safe hunting ahead. I would buy the Carl Gustaf in a heartbeat - but the 65 is not inferior. Thanks for the kind words about my channel. All the best to you!

You shouldn't have gone wrong with your purchase. I have a 70s Carl and I love it, shoots just as good now as in the s 70,80,90s new stuffs junk in comparison.

My privilege.

Your country is amazing. The rifles you produced are legend over here. I hope things don't change too much for you; I hear things from people in Sweden that concern me; yet - I'm convinced the core people of Sweden who know what is what, and what matters, and what is true...will prevail. At least I hope so. God Bless.

You'll get one

Perfect trio - the full length stock models are especially fine - and scarce. Cheers.

There isn't a better rifle - only different ones. You bought the right one!

Husqvarna rifles are fantastic - a steal on the market right now

That is interesting! I have the CG 3000 in .308 - one of my best rifles. I'll have to give the King a call and see if he would be willing to say a few words for the channel (with all due respect.) : ) Thank you for the name : ZOLI! my mind froze and I could not remember.

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns There is several meme pictures of the King with CG around the net 😉 Another friend of mine, he wore out a 6,5x55 barrel in a CG 1900 and now have a octagonal Walther in it in 6,5mm

You've got the best

Luke Moon, I believe FFV in your timeframe is short for Försvarets Fabriksverk and they made a channel out via a company, an Ltd, in sorts, to sell and distribute surplus military equipment. Here is a scanned document from the old days when this was setup in the 70ies: www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/proposition/om-omorganisation-av-forenade-fabriksverken-mm_FZ03122/html Search for FFV Sport AB Be aware that the scanning is very erratic, no one has proofread it yet. Anyway, it seems your rifle was an outlet from the Swedish Army, as they standardized other rifles for the defense. I just wonder which customers got the surplus torpedoes from Motala, lol.. Here is an old webpage about the organisation/s. web.archive.org/web/20100818024537/www.sgu.se/dokument/miljo_fororenat/om-FFV.pdf Look at the year 1986, there is the Company setup. But how old is the rifle?

John Marstein my rifle is a Husqvarna Model 1900. It was purchased new by my grandfather as a gift to my father in late 1971. It has a walnut Montecarlo shaped stock with a “schnable” fore end and tasteful checkering. The steel alloy in conjunction with extremely precise machining seems to be what sets this handsome firearm apart from everything else I’ve ever encountered.

New in box rifles are very rare - as you know - I'd say $1500.

Always a great memory

Okay great - don't forget to buy a rare earth magnet - the kind they sell to retrieve outboard motors that fall off the back of small boats. I bought one of those way up North. We were fooling around picking up weird metal things off a lake bottom and then - I kid you not - at a narrows the magnet lodged on something really solid. Our rope was heavy duty - thank goodness. We inadvertently found a Ski-Doo that had cracked and fallen through the ice the winter before. I hope you find the rifles!

ive got a 3600 neodymium on its way from amazon made by brute magnets i'm looking in to a really good rope i am going to be looking in a narrow spot and i'm hoping that i dont hook on to a car or bulldozer that may have fallen in at one time thanks for the reply its a place called tangle lakes ill try and find a way to send you a picture if i find something

One of the best ever - a keeper.

Hi Sven - Yes - that one is tops.

Hi Paul - yup - it is a favorite - and handles even better than it looks. Have a great weekend as well.

My goodness Grendel. If people saw culling or a slaughterhouse or anything connected to reality they would understand that hunting is by far the most responsible and respectful way of harvesting game or acquiring sustenance. Also, if they saw an area overpopulated with deer - with deer curled up in the snow starving to death - it would be clear that nature is not self-regulating in a way that humanity would be comfortable with. Too many deer, then almost none - over and over - with destruction of the environment and ecology, pain and suffering, disease and starvation - to death in between.

We're slaves to our survival, and with the genius of man has come unnatural ways to cope in a natural world. Our slaughterhouses and meat industry, although necessary, is cruel in both concept and practice. But people need their meat on the table. The alternative? Stalking our own game. The issue? People who just aren't exposed to the natural world, and only imagine that would be hunters are only that way because they "just wanna kill animals". Its this principle alone that makes someone anti-hunting. Or so I perceive. It could also be they believe that without human intervention, the wild world is already hospitable and why can't we leave that alone? Well the more we leave it alone, the more we are forced to adapt to a industrial way of living. Which causes more damage in the long run. Sure it sucks (in a way?) that life is one big organism that has to survive off of itself for it's continuation. And maybe their argument is if we're so intelligent, why can't we find ways to exist without eating a sentient being? That's a valid world view in of itself, but these creatures will be dead anyway. Dont let their deaths be for nothing. The circle of life, or in other words let life feed off of itself in the way it was designed to be.

@@diktatoralexander88 Very well put indeed mate.

You've got the best.

Always wanted that exact rifle!

Amazing Cody - You've got a gem.

Very true William - they got everything right.

Hi Edward - will do and the .410 levers are so popular - not easy to find - maybe a Henry - I'll get it done. Good on you for suggesting.

Great rifles and great meatballs - I like them as well; I like that berry jam or jelly they serve with them. One year my venison came back from the butcher and it tasted something like that; which was a lucky year. You know how venison is - some years better than others - depending on the specific deer. One year my deer must have fed on pine needles only. The meat was like eating a conifer; I made the best of it but chewy pine needle burgers are character building.

Thanks for your note. It surprises us that many rifles from Sweden somehow ended up over here. For awhile there were hundreds for sale. Now there are few, as people recognize quality and great prices. You're right - the Husqvarna rifles are as good as it gets. Many people bought two or three when they were available for a few hundred dollars. Good health and good shooting!

My Smith & Wesson branded 30-06 is very accurate, all I had to do was replace the trigger and trigger spring with a Huber.

Haha, they have been around since 1689, so they have produced a lot of different things over the years

I guess like the old saying Goes,,, History is Bottemless!

Great rifle - made by Heym and predecessor to the current Heym SR20 - marketed and branded by Mauser. Mine was super accurate, but the aluminum floorplate cracked - it was press engraved. Hope that helps.

Hi Dennis - Disturbing; maybe someone should form an international alliance of firearms owners. Truly, the United Nations should mandate that no government is allowed to disarm its citizens in any way. I am being told this process is under way in South Africa. As history shows - governments don't disarm their citizens to give them more rights and freedoms. Disarming the citizens is always a precursor to the overthrow of the will of the people, by what was supposed to be their own government. Government is supposed to serve the people, not restrict the people, condemn the people, strip people of their freedoms and impose ways of life on the people that they have no interest in. I'm seriously concerned as well.

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns The UN is completely in support of, and often directly behind, these tyrannical actions.

That is interesting. Thanks for the supporting words and I hope the apparently world wide efforts to restrict and diminish freedom do not succeed. I seem to learn some new and troubling example of the erosion of freedom - or attempts - just about every day. Everyone who has freedom or some semblance of it needs to hold fast and not budge; as we all know - freedom is easily lost - and can be very difficult to get back.

Some rifles I've sold - I still can't believe I sold. Much like real estate - guns just end up with new owners who may never sell. As for fine firearms - they can only go up - the majority of guns these days are machine made, plastic stocked items that have sort of a "disposable" feel to them. Gunmakers of the past wanted their guns to last - generation after generation.

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns Better to sell than to scrap. A friend of mine, retired from the Swedish Security Police delivered his father's weapon for scrap, an old CG from 1928, if i remember correct. I find this to be destruction of cultural values, and I am not a hunter, nor a gun owner. The amont of man hours put in to one of those will never be seen again. What a waste. So better to find an appreciative new owner.

Hi Gerald! Gun Traders Guide Twelfth Edition by Paul Wahl - hope all is well in the Realm. All the best.

@@UnitedStatesOfGuns In the realm, I love it !....They are costing us a fortune !.