Picked Up the 1896 Swedish Mauser.....

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usmc69

The boxed SA you mentioned is a Finnish Army property mark, your rifle was used by the Finns or Swede volunteers against the Russians in WW2

26th LGS

[usmc69]

usmc69

The boxed SA you mentioned is a Finnish Army property mark, your rifle was used by the Finns or Swede volunteers against the Russians in WW2

26th LGS

Thanks, must not have seen much use as it is darn near new in condition.

[pelago]

i also have this particular rifle and i load ammo, brass and components quite easy to obtain, and i shoot the rifle in the CMP Vintage games, so far have competed in four events with the rifle, and have won, Senior twice, gold medal four times, and overall once, and i truly believe it is the rifle more than me, this is one hell of a rifle, in fact i was able to obtain a action to make a mid range gun out of it

what i like is my tired old eyeballs like the long LONG rifle, front sight is in a different county than the rear sight

you will enjoy the accuracy of this piece of history, i have no idea of any military service these rifles might have seen, not sure of when and with who Sweden might have gone to war with in the 19th or 20th century

[26th LGS]

Finland purchased approximately 77,000 rifles and 19.2 million rounds of ammo from Sweden
to use against the Russians in 1940, additionally 8000 Swedish volunteers went to help Finland.

I have a M96 dated 1901 that looks like it was made yesterday, its interesting because the serial number is lower than the beginning of 1901 but higher than the end of 1900. Kind of in between.

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[Festus39]

Should you get into a situation where you can only fire at fifty or a hundred yards;use 107gr. Sierra Match Kings over 19gr. of IMR 4759.
In that 96 Swede it sounds like a pellet rifle and there is no felt recoil.
Festus