Hello Folks! A bit of an oddball "1895" for your enjoyment

New guy here but not to the firearms collecting/shooting/dealing/etc...I picked up this guy sort of sight unseen and it's a weird one. I'm guessing it was clobbered together in a large shipment years ago? Couldn't find any import marks on it anywhere but I didn't strip the stock off. I'm accustom to finding them on a barrel or actions.

Looks like M38 stock with a really nice 1895 sitting in it. I looked everywhere to see if there were any programs where they were intentionally refinished this way and came up with nothing. Doesn't feel like a "bubba job" as the action, chamber and barrel still have cosmo in them.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

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I wouldn't call it a bubba job because he did no harm to either piece unless he had to fit the stock a bit. Both being small rings, they are probably just good matches for each other and he needed a replacement stock and the 38 was available..

Welcome to the forum, at least it looks good.

If you look at P.81 of "Crown Jewels" by Dana Jones you will see that the Swedes did indeed manufacture early m/38s by cutting down existing m/96 long rifles and fitting them into new m/38 stocks.

As Aragorn suggests, it seems that the unknown creator applied the same solution to an M95 barrelled action.

That reminds me, Mike had a Turk Mauser in a Swede stock at the Oaks gun show. Asked me to tell him what was wrong with it and until I flipped it around and saw the disk, it looked good. They had to have increased the channel for that one as the Turk is a large ring.

Thanks for the input, All! I like the feel of it and for the $100 I have into it, I figured I did fine.