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Offline Huffmanite

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Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« on: August 13, 2009, 11:24:02 AM »
A couple of years ago, I won a sporterized M94 Swedish carbine on an auction.  Bore on the rifle was in very good condition, but our so called Bubba had done a horrible job of inletting a Bishop stock and installed a very inexpensive rear peep sight on the receiver.  Heck, I could not shoulder the rifle and line up the rear peep sight with the front sight.  I was able to easily correct that problem by re-inletting the stock to allow me to sight down the barrel.  Well, despite its good bore, the rifle did not shoot as accurately as I had hoped.  It would have been a great carry rifle for deer hunting as long as you did not try any shots over 150 yards away.  Bubba had tried to drill and tap the receiver for a scope, but had miss drilled the rear mount hole.  I used a scope mount screw to fill the hole, ground it down after a little JB Weld was put on threads, and redrilled the rear mount hole.  This allowed me to mount a scope.  My accuracy with the rifle improved (old eyes here), but still did not shoot as well as my other Swedish surplus rifles.  LOL, this is a carbine Swede barrel that is about 17" long and my barrel had an extension on it that I have read was installed by the early M94 importers to make them legal to sell in the U.S.  Anyway, a fun rifle to shoot, but not that accurate and I do not hunt, just shoot paper.

Meanwhile I acquired a sporter 93 Spanish mauser in 7mm mauser. Only reason I bought it was to get its stock.  Some guy in Oregon had hand carved a nice walnut stock.  I tried to put a 257R small ring mauser action in it, but it had a 24" barrel and did not look right in the short stock.  Put this barreled sporter action in another stock and stored the carved stock in the closet to gather dust.

Recently, I had the M94 Swede action rebarreled with an A&B 6.5 Swede barrel that was a F14 contour 21" barrel with the spanish mauser stock in mind.

I've done numerous things to both the stock and the A&B barreled Swede M94.  Will not bore you with all the details, but replacing wood in stock removed for a bolt handle cut for the turned down Spanish bolt handle was one thing I did.  Splicing in the wood and carving it to match the surrounding wood was a challenge, and while hardly perfect, turned out decent.  Using needle files, a dremel and my bench belt sander, I reshaped the bolt handle. I filled the holes drilled in rear side of receiver for the peep sight by retapping for scope screws and using  JB weldin in the screws and then grinding down the screw heads.  I used Brownell's oxpho blue to touch up any work I did on the receiver.  As for the A&B barrel, I used Blue Wonder Blue to cold blue the barrel, a product I have used a number of times on other barrels that did a decent job.  I also replaced the plastic broken butt plate with an old Remington metal butt plate and the plastic pistol grip cap I replaced with one I made from a nice piece of Pakka like wood.

LOL, So I hope the rifle now shoots as good as I think it looks.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2009, 12:59:14 PM »
Looks good.
All the carving on the stock is not my cup of tea but it does look to be very good.
Like what you did with the bolt.
Did you bent / cant it forward a little?
Again good job.
Try getting some of the Seller & Bellot 131 grain soft points as ammo.
not sure why but both of my swede's love that loading.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2009, 04:27:05 PM »
Love them Swedes!   ;D
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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2009, 04:42:24 PM »
mcwoodduck,  I did no bending of the Swedish 94 carbine bolt.  It extends straight out from the bolt body and has a sharp angled turn downwards.  Only thing I did to the bolt handle is round off the bolt handle at its bend and put a groove along the top side of the handle.   I did rework the typical round bolt handle knob on it.  Hard for me to not do something with a military bolt knob on a sporterized military surplus rifle.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2009, 04:59:04 PM »
Wow nice work, love the carving.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2009, 06:57:15 AM »
Must be an optical illusion in the picture.
The bolt looks great.  great metal work.
Is this a hobby or are you a Pro?
If your a pro I have an old '93 Mexican to send you.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2009, 11:18:42 AM »
Mcwoodduck,  Sorry I'm just a retired guy with sufficient tools and time to spare that has been a frustrated artist type since a kid. 

2 pics of a different bolt head.

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Re: Finished Redoing my sporter Swede
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2009, 11:45:20 AM »
Cool.
Like the bottom one.