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Very strange rifle. It's not a real Krag sniper though. It's an engineers carbine with a crudely modified scope mount. I can't believe that set up would keep it's zero at all. The scope and wooden...

Not exactly. The 30-06 K98K's were mainly used by the Homeguard, but also the airforce, navy etc... But not by the army. From around 1950 the army mainly used american arms. The standard rifle for...

Norwegian Homeguard with MG 34. (Pic. taken June 1987. Courtesy of the norwegian armed forces media archive). The MG 34 was officially in service until 1993. One of the officers in my Homeguard unit...

Norway converted a few MG42's to 30-06 for testing. They worked well, but when the conversion was about to begin, the stocks of MG' 42's had been sold!!

See this link for a good article....

Nice Krag, and great looking repro sling. Most original slings to be found are completly rotten. How about a range report?
As for the flip over sight, here's my answer from another forum:

The...

Nice Kammerlader. I saw it before on the Gunboards forum...The brass buttons is for attaching a small piece of leather. It can stay in two positions. Across the hammer as a safety, or out of the way....

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The coat with the wool liner is norwegian. It's a M/51 winter coat. The stamp "HÆREN" means army in norwegian.

Seaspriter: In the 1970's the norwegian Krag ammo was downloaded to a preassure of 2800 BAR (from originally 3100 BAR). The reason was that some Krags started to develop cracks. These rifles had shot...

Maple leaf: Parts do show up once in a while. Try these guys. Kongsberg Våpenhistoriske Forening
They are the "Kongsberg weaponhistoric assosiation". A group of collectors , and also with some...

I got a reply from Hanevik. He'd never seen a rifle with such mounts before, and could not tell if they have norwegian origins or not.

Another source I checked, did see the ZF41 scoped rifles on...

I don't have any photos on this computer, but you can see the rifle here:

Norwegian duv 41 / zf41

I have seen a handful of these in Norway, and they all seem to be real german zf41 rifles that...

Thanks guys!

Promo: I sent Mr. Hanevik an e-mail. Also to a couple of other sources.
We'll see if any info shows up.

BTW, the A in a circle mark on your rifle could be the stamp of Hardy...

Wow! Now , that's an interesting rifle :eek:!!! Do you know what scope it used to have? I have tried to find documentation myself, about the use of K98K snipers in postwar Norway. The zf 41's issued...

Some more items:

A instructional poster from around 1950. K98 drawing is in 1:1 scale.
The Homeguards K98K manual from 1956. 104 pages.
My Energa practice grenade.
A target from 1950's -...

Last summer when I had a few hours alone in the house, I pulled some of my stuff out of the attic, and made a small display. I've been collecting some norwegian accessories for my Homeguard issued...