nice find, will have to learn more about them.
Thanks!
The M/96 and other Swedish Mauser models are small ring Mausers chambered in 6.5x55mm Swedish. The M/94 carbines were the first Mauser adopted by Sweden, with about 12,000 made at Mauser Oberndorf (MO) and 115,000 made at Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori (Carl Gustafs State Rifle Factory; CG), under license. The carbines were followed by the M/96 long rifle, with about 40,000 made at Mauser Oberndorf, 517,000 made under license at CG, and a mere 18,000 made at Husqvarna during WWII. Finally the M/38 short rifle, with about 66,000 manufactured at Husqvarna, and about 55,000 cut down from existing M/96s made either at CG or MO.
They are really nice shooters, being made to very high precision, and chambered in the flat-shooting modest recoil 6.5x55 cartridge. The Swedes, like the Swiss, never made military ammunition with potassium chlorate (corrosive) primers, so the bores are typically excellent. They also had stringent reject standards during refurb, so the surplus rifles with the worst bore corrosion rating of "3" are typically still in good shape.