I was asking a pretty well known collector about this carbine way back in March. Said he needed some money and he was going to sell some guns. Well he went and sold something else. Forward to December when I see this old warhorse on Gunbroker. Thankfully not much interest was paid to it, why I don't know, this one is sweet. I won it and got it for what I thought was fairly cheap, $100 under my max. It was only later that I realized it was the same one I was after in March. His handle on the Swedish boards isn't the same as on GB. Must have been a divine intervention.
M94-14s don't get very much more legit than this one, completely numbers matching. The Swedish arsenal added the bayo mount during WWI, hence 94-14 . The brass bore disk was added in the 50s. The thrifty Swedes could have put different sights on it when the went from a round nose bullet to a lighter spitzer bullet but instead they put decals or these brass range plates on them telling the shooter how much higher or lower to aim. The metal plates for an M94 are real hard to come by. Notice it's on upside down so the soldier would have to flip the little carbine over to read it. The original slings are also pretty rare, over $100 when you can find one. I've been told the fireball out of the 17.5 inch barrel is a joy in itself.
For those with sharp eyes, even the extractor is original. see the number etched on it?
The top setting is 1600 meters, wishful thinking.
No silly barrel extension added by the importer, no import mark, this one's been here for a while
85* butt used only before 1904 on Swedish M94s and M96s, this assures me the stock is original to the carbine. Numbers in the channel and on the handguard match
Numbers on the barrel match the numbers on the receiver, even the font is the same. Barrel is rated a number 3 but after working on it for a couple of days it shines like new money, as good as any 113 year old barrel could.
Oh did I mention fireballs.