help me /k/ you're my only hope. I need to find the serial# on pic related so I can get a loicense for it. it's one of the four I posted here a couple of weeks ago
>6.5x55mm Swedish
>dates to no later than 1965 (based on the previous license on it, unless 65 refers to something else)
>marked "Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori." above the breach with a crown above it and some kind of crest inbetween. not our dear Knig's crest, also he wasn't crowned until 1973
I can only find three-digit codes in various places:
>on the magazine floor plate
>on the safety
>on the left side of the bolt
>on the bolt handle
>behind the magazine well
I can't get the sight mounting thing off to check behind it, the screws are pretty much on there permanently
I've taken the action off the stock and looked very carefully, but nothing. I suspect the popo won't like that there's no proper serial. the one possibility is that the gun is older than 1927, which I doubt
and a close-up of the crest
I have one gun with no serial either. They just wrote down "no serial" plus every marking and number they could find.
that's what I suspect I'll have to do too. guess I'll add some övriga upplysningar. weird for what appears to be an old military gun. I'd have expected the military to be really anal about serials
also I doubled-checked the old license: 31 august 1965
do you happen to know what model this gun is? I have some theories. that's also a thing the cops want to know, but there appears to be no "model" besides the "6.5 x 55"
Can't you just get it serialized? That's how it works here over the gulf
probably, but also would probably cost more than the gun is worth. these things go for about $150
I don't actually know if it costs anything here if the cops tell you to serialize it. In Finland you see the models on these reported in a million ways too
>Husqvarna
>Carl Gustaf
etc.
Don't know how anal your cops are, doesn't the old loicense have a serial number?
>doesn't the old loicense have a serial number?
it has some kind of diarienummer. I'll be mailing them the old licenses as well
>tho if the scope mount is a frickjob maybe it destroyed the serial on the action.
the cope is mounted exactly where the serial is in your picture..
>1. This isn't a Husqvarna rifle, it's a Carl Gustaf rifle
right, foolish of me to trust the boomer I'm buying this from
>4. The serial number should be on the left side of the receiver, underneath the scope mount.
fugg
>the cope is mounted exactly where the serial is in your picture..
oh boy, time to take it off!
I tried taking it off, but they're slotted screws and they're on tight. better bring it to my dad who has better tools
looking more closely I don't think it's coming off without taking a grinder and/or drill to it. the screws are.. I don't know the English word but someone has used a körnare to jam them in place
Maybe they'd have the s/n archived somewhere or maybe not
It should be printed on the current/previous owner's license card.
Although it's questionable if the SN is correct given that the current owner doesn't even know the manufacturer of the rifle.
apparently he got the rifle configured like this, from FMV
remove the barrel and action from the stock.
i have no idea why that caliber marking is on the "top" of the barrel instead of 10 o´ clock from the perspective of the shooter.
tho if the scope mount is a frickjob maybe it destroyed the serial on the action.
pic related, but its a 40s model
1. This isn't a Husqvarna rifle, it's a Carl Gustaf rifle
2. The royal crest is that of King Karl X Gustaf who founded the town "Carl Gustaf's Stad" (now part of Eskilstuna) and ordered a small arms and artillery factory be built there in 1659
3. The scope mount isn't original
4. The serial number should be on the left side of the receiver, underneath the scope mount.
why are you willing to go through so much trouble to buy this specific rifle?
There are literally tens of thousands equivalent rifles out there.
does it have some sentimental value?
I'm buying four guns from a relative, this is just one of them
Tard
That's one rifle less getting scrapped
I found a bunch of interesting cartridges as well, like the one on the right in pic related with the longboi bullet. made between 1940-1945 at Lidköpings Tändsticksfabrik as best I can tell. he had a couple of boxes of this kind of ammunition including clips. some of it corroded, but not all
That is an odd shape; almost looks like it would be for a tube magazine.