Husqvarna .32-20 Single Shot Bolt Action Rifle

[Dave DeLaurant]

Most of Scandinavia is heavily forested.

There are exceptions of course, particularly the parts of Jylland where my folks came from: Fredericia and Vendsyssel. Most particularly the latter -- old photos of the family farm look rather bleak.



The only hunting in the old country I can remember my grandpa Jake mentioning was for rats in the barn. He was a deadly shot with a shotgun and a .22 rimfire after he settled in the Nebraska Sandhills -- come to think of it, there's not many trees their either.

He's been gone for more than 40 years now, and I can still imagine him looking inside my gunsafes and shaking his head. My dad would have done the same for that matter. But I digress -- sorry.

 

[Skoghund]

Were they introduced from North America and you don't want them competing with other game?

I recall a Swedish study of terminal ballistics some years ago. It just happened to conclude that the 6.5 was about right for area game. What a coincidence.

The white tail were a gift from Finnish immigrants in Minnesota the interweb informs me. 6.5x55 is still alive and well in Sweden.
What a coincidence .

 

[Speedo66]

Well the 30-30 is a class 2 firearm so the largest deer you can shoot with class 2 is roe deer or beaver, badgers. .32-20 I would think is a class 2 but would be as rare as hens teeth here in Sweden, I would have thought. 6.5x55 is the smallest round that can be used on large hoofed game and that is anything bigger than roe deer.
No Axis deer in Sweden but they do have white tail deer in Finland. White tail deer to be shot on site if they cross into Sweden. We have Red, fallow, roe deer plus the tightest population of moose in the world.Not forgetting wild boar. Plenty of capers and black grouse plus a type of willow grouse. Ducks, geese, badgers, foxes so no shortage of thing to hunt.

Do’h, of course row deer, not axis deer.

I was in Hawaii recently to visit my son and they do have axis deer, must have stayed in my head.

@Sgaghund, thanks for the clarrification.

I’m not surprised that 6.5x55 is still popular in Sweden, like the US, just about all military cartridges are still popular. The Krag .30-40 may be the exception. Now if we’d had the Krags in 6.5x55 like Scandinavian’s had, I’m sure it would have been immensely popular here, too..

 

[Skoghund]

Do’h, of course row deer, not axis deer.

I was in Hawaii recently to visit my son and they do have axis deer, must have stayed in my head.

@Sgaghund, thanks for the clarrification.

I’m not surprised that 6.5x55 is still popular in Sweden, like the US, just about all military cartridges are still popular. The Krag .30-40 may be the exception. Now if we’d had the Krags in 6.5x55 like Scandinavian’s had, I’m sure it would have been immensely popular here, too..

The 6.5x55 was really all that people had to shoot with in the past with it being the military round of the day. There was plenty of cheap ammo for practice and competition then. Most towns still have a rifle range. Today the .308 is the most popular. My LGS has 46, 6.5x55 for sale and 267, .308.
I did not include that there is a limited cull of Bear, wolf and Lynx every year in my list of quarry.

 

[Speedo66]

The 6.5x55 was really all that people had to shoot with in the past with it being the military round of the day. There was plenty of cheap ammo for practice and competition then. Most towns still have a rifle range. Today the .308 is the most popular. My LGS has 46, 6.5x55 for sale and 267, .308.
I did not include that there is a limited cull of Bear, wolf and Lynx every year in my list of quarry.

Although Sweden is not yet in NATO, I know they sometimes train together.

Is .308 (7.62x51) in use by your military? How about .223 (5.56x45)?

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Is .308 (7.62x51) in use by your military?

Check out the commentary toward the middle of this video:

 

[GooseGestapo]

Check out the commentary toward the middle of this video?

Dave, do you have a link to “Simpsons”… ?

 

[Skoghund]

Although Sweden is not yet in NATO, I know they sometimes train together.

Is .308 (7.62x51) in use by your military? How about .223 (5.56x45)?

The military use .223 in their rifle that is soon the be changed to another calibre. No idea what that will be. I would have thought the .7.62 is used in machine guns.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Dave, do you have a link to “Simpsons”… ?

https://simpsonltd.com/