Sported Swedish Mauser

[matberedare]

About 40 000 was made as a first delivery to the Swedish Army from Oberndorf before Carl Gustaf stads gevärsfaktori in Eskilstuna and Husqvarna Vapenfabrik went in to full production.
The caliber is still delivering impressive results!

 

[jrdolall]

Yeah those sporter Swedes are terrible. I wouldn't be caught dead with one.

 

[matberedare]

My father and brother both competed on high level with both CG 63 and CG 80. Both of them made it trough to finals in The Swedish championships. I spent a good many weekends on shooting ranges in Sweden for training and competition with those rifles.

 

[Mustang51]

Thanks, Mat.

Shooting is such a great father-son-brother activity. My sons and I love shooting in vintage military matches.

 

[matberedare]

Thanks, Mat.

Shooting is such a great father-son-brother activity. My sons and I love shooting in vintage military matches.

And as my father always said: When the Soviets come, get the rifles, the gear and head for the mountains!
Back in the 1980´s with the Soviet union on the other side of the Baltic sea that was just every day reality...

 

[Mustang51]

Yeah those sporter Swedes are terrible. I wouldn't be caught dead with one.

If you ever find yourself burdened with one (like the beautiful one in your pic) I'll "take one for the team" and take it off your hands.

 

[Archaic]

I love me some swedish Mauser, and it is a little sad to see one cut up, BUT - as standard issued, they did not make great hunting rifles, especially for kids. With a little trimming and a scope, suddenly you have a rifle that a kid could get cheap ammo for and hunt without risking one of dads 'good' rifles.

For me it was a chopped down Spanish Mauser in 7x57. That rifle and I ran the woods from the time I was 13 until I 'grew up' and started buying my own guns. Now, that little spaniard has started roaming the woods with my 12 y/o son and hopefully east TX white tails will come to fear it as much as WV white tails feared it 30 years ago.

What you have there is a 'shooter', enjoy!

 

[Mustang51]

Thanks, Archaic.

I took it with me to the vintage silhouette match last Saturday and fired it a bit after the match at a few pigs (330 yards) and rams (550 yards). It did pretty well.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

The little Swede is a superb rifle -- although in the original military configuration it suffers from the same problem of almost all military rifles of that vintage, poor sights. With a scope or aperture sights, it will astonish you with loads it likes.

 

[Hokkmike]

My temptation with this would be to find an original stock and kick the sporterized one.

 

[Mustang51]

My temptation with this would be to find an original stock and kick the sporterized one.

That's the plan.

 

[aka108]

I got ahold of some very poor condition 98K's for 40 bucks each and some decent take off 8mm barrels with sight at 6 for 100 dollars. All had cracked wrists. All had missing metal parts off of the furniture. Repaired the wrists, cranked on the newer barrels, headspaced and alligned the sights and cut and rounded the forend of the stocks, All shot decently, enough so to take safe shots at a deer out to 150 yards. Thats about as long a shot as you can imagine in our woods. Kept 1 and sold the others for 225 ea. I do own some excellent condition 98K's and other Mausers that I would never butcher.

 

[Mustang51]

Mausers make an excellent starting point for sporting rifles.