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    Found In A Sack On The Roadside



    Somebody offered to trade some magic beans for this little carbine.
    Sounds like a pretty good deal to me...I do like beans, generally.
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    That is a very nice looking carbine. A Swede?

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    niece.carbine..tell.us.more.about.it....northwales fred

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    Nice find ...

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    1907 m94/14 Swedish Carbine

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    But does yours have the bayo attachment? (Can´t see in the photo)

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    Patrick, go to the bottom of the Milsurps screen and you should see a blue-ish bar, slide that to the right with your mouse and you will see the rest of the photo.
    There is no bayonet fitting.
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    The carbine is 100% matching, 1907 dated and has a bright bore, with no significant wear.
    It is an unaltered M94 and how it survived in this condition is anybody's guess.
    Here is a slighly closer view of the butt and marked unit disc.
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    Cute little backsight---the nitre blue on the slider went black in the photo---

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    Quote Originally Posted by krinko View Post
    Found In A Sack On The Roadside

    What a lovely M94!
    I would like to know which roadside that was - there may be more lurking out there!

    The trajectory plate seems to be for the m/41 ammo, so the carbine has not been kept in a safe ever since 1907. Just very, very, very carefully looked after!

    The disc marking L indicates "Landstormen" (older, experienced troops) 11th Infantry, Rifle No. 124, and a closely similar disc may be found on P.161 of "Crown Jewels", by Dana Jones, a book that you either already have, or are now going to acquire a.s.a.p. !!!
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    Boy Swedenicon sure tossed out keeper stuff. I had a buddy who worked in a gunshop. They had 50 or so long rifles come in one day. Mu buddy tells the manager to put aside 2-3 keepers. After 3-4 months they have 5-6 left in the shop. My buddy goes in and picks out a new rifle. All the rest sell out. My buddy finally gets around to picking up his keeper and the shop gunsmith checks the headspace for him. He cleans out the grease only to discover the rifle had been testfired then greased up, not cleaned, and put away for 80(?) years. The bore was a sewer. They sell on the rifle and my buddy fails to pick one up! My Sweden story.

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    Fabulous Swede carbine!

    My Swede tale is the opposite of Calif-Steve's. A local shop bought a small number of Swedes from Century arms. Sold them all except one. It was the ugly duckling of the lot, but still a nice rifle. It stood leaning against the wall for months. I must have walked past it 20 times, before I finally asked to see it. When the owner's wife handed it to me, I almost fainted. It was an 1898-production M1896 rifle (only about 3,000 made before full-scale production began in 1899). All matching, except for the rod & floorplate. Got it for $99.

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