Can anyone tell me more about these Norwegian Kongsberg barrels? I’ve got a 98 Sporter that has one of these in 308. It’s an accurate barrel, more so than me. I had loaned the rifle to a friend last year until he could fund his own purchase and just got it back this morning. He showed me some pictures of his groups using 44 grains of IMR4895 and Speer 165 SP and they were an inch or smaller.

I had this barrel installed maybe 40 years ago and Tom replaced the bolt handle and added a two position safety some time back. Don’t see much about these Norwegian Kongsberg barrels any more.

Well...I was a little curious, but apparently nobody can shed much light on your inquiry.

However, It would be foolish to believe that USA is the only place on the planet that can make good rifle barrels.

I think the lack of replies is more due to lack of a question.

Tell you more in terms of what?

If I posted the same post, but put Shilen, Ie Can anyone tell me more about these Shilen barrels, what is the the response you are looking for?

We don't see much about Kongsberg anymore for several reasons, one of which is our intrusive government making it a pain in the ass to import barrels from over seas. More so probably because they don't make Mauser anything anymore and haven't in the last 30+ years. (They stopped any "production" in the 90's?)

Those Danish made VAR barrels, for M1 Garands, are shooters! Don't know anything about Kongsberg barrels, though.

Kongsberg barrels are (don’t know if they makes any barrels nowadays) hammer forged, the ones I have seen and chambered have been with a hammer forged outside profile. FFV in Sweden made hammer forged barrels that looked, and shot similar groups like the Kongsberg barrels. To order barrels from Norway to USA seems like a unnecessary and complicated way to get blanks! With all the barrel makers in USA available I can’t se the point to try to import Kongsberg blanks…..

Getting good barrels here in Sweden is getting increasingly difficult and really expensive!

Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk (arms factory) do not produce hunting rifles anymore..nor barrels.

A side note on barrelmaking and red tape in Sweden….

A few years back some guys here planned to start manufacturing match barrels. We have great steel and good knowledge about stuff like this here in Sweden so things looked great! This was until they got to a complete stop when the government made it clear that making barrels wasn’t going to happen, the reason for this was that makeing barrels would be classified as “war-material” and is not possible to do as a civilian here in Sweden…..

There have been barrels made here for hunting and even match grade stuff but nowadays I don’t know any way to get a Swedish barrel blank! The regulation of firearms are so tight here that we can’t buy barrel blanks without threads or chamber without a permit

Sh....! Don't let Biden hear about that one!