Sported Swedish Mauser

[Stephen25]

I have a newbie question. Is the disc on the Swedish Mauser screwed ONTO the stock, or is it RECESSED in the stock and flush? Thanks for any help.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Recessed and flush, and screwed. And swapped or faked so often that you cannot assume that any marks still apply to the rifle to which the disc is attached. And even if original, the barrel inspection will have been half a century ago, or more, so no guarantee of present performance.

[Stephen25]

Patrick, thanks so much for the info. I have a 1910 Swedish Mauser in excellant condition with the steel butt, barrel, and bolt numbers matching up. However the disc is missing and the stock refinished at the disc area. I now have a disc and wanted to install it. I appreciate your help.

[Calfed]

HI Calfed, Hope this will be helpful for anyone who thinks they have done a complete job bending the bolt handle of a M96 to accomodate a scope: Your post turned out to be very helpful for me although at the time I wrote back to you I had no idea how helpful. I spent several frustrating hours trying to get a horribly abused M96 sporter fixed up just because it has such a great barrel and even tho' I had bought it initially as a parts rifle. A few days ago I replaced the broken firing pin and bent the bolt handle, did the final polishing etc and believed I was all set to reassemble the action........nope! Hour after hour of disaasembly and reassembly with a bit of grinding here, a bit there and I could not get the bolt shround to screw in properly and thus could not fire the trigger or work the safety properly. I did some searches and found a similar set of problems described on The FiringLine and pretty well had given up until I had another look at one of your pics showing the rear of the bolt. I was having issues with not being able to set the safety nor fire the action and it seemed that the bolt shroud was either too far forward or too far back and the problems described above were constant. I fiddled around for two days, even trying the old broken firing pin and last night after reading this thread just figured my M96 was headed for the parts heap. This morning, however, I tried again after viewing one of your pics, this time with the trigger removed from the frame and immediately could see that the half moon recess in the bolt into which the male counterpart on the trigger fits was about 1/32" off center.....meaning that the bolt was rotating to the right fully........tada! The inside of the bolt handle was hitting the right side of the receiver too early! Solution found and just reheated the bolt and bent it outwards slightly and all is resolved.....the safety works properly and the trigger too, shroud screws in easily and all is set to continue making this into a shooter. Live and learn.....k

WK, I just noticed your post and wanted to congratulate you. Good job!

Have you shot your Swede yet?

---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 PM ----------

I finally got a scope mounted on the Sported Swede and got a quick range trip in to see how it shoots. The scope is a Weaver Nitrex 3-9x42.




I didn't have time to work up a load for the rifle, so I took a box of 120 grain Prvi Partizan "match" ammo.

5 rounds @ 100 yards off a sand bag front rest.



I think careful load development could do better.

I had decided that if it shot well as is, I would go ahead and put it in a military stock that I have. I think these results are good enough to proceed with that plan.