I bought two 9.3x57 rifles. Both had good blueing one was improperly D&T by a bubba swede. I refinished both and they were both the same year 1943. I kept the best stock and the best rifle and traded off the least desirable. This is what I have left. My plans are to ream to 62MM, D&T with either warn mounts that have a cut out for the stripper hump or have a smith cut a key way if you will in the stripper hump and just the width of the rear base. (Mr Shultz who retired to Namibia from Mauser did this for me on a 96 action 9.3 husqvarna. Then put a very straight bolt for a scope and a three position safety. I feel i already ruined the collectability as i added the cross bolts and refinished the stock. What do you say!?
Aaron

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96s I assume.
Nothing wrong with making them 62s. and altering them however you like; there is no collector value; they aren't rare; shooters.

Actually that's a Model 146, a nice prewar Belgian 98 with no markings above the wood. Personally I would build it as either an iron sight rifle or have Griffin and Howe mount one of their side mounts on it. That blank receiver ring is a blank canvas just begging! I currently have one at the gunsmith freshly barreled and being opened up for 404 Jeffery.

"Griffin and Howe mount" not that bad of idea BUT I like low mounted scopes when the stock is like this... but not a bad idea.

That looks like a 640, not a 146. By the pic that looks like a LR 98 not a 96

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Originally posted by MileHighShooter:
That looks like a 640, not a 146. By the pic that looks like a LR 98 not a 96

The 146 has a thumb cut and no crest, 640 has no thumb cut and a swedish crest.

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Originally posted by MileHighShooter:
That looks like a 640, not a 146. By the pic that looks like a LR 98 not a 96

Its a large ring 98 Belgium military style receiver. 46 or 146 i don't remember. Or if it is a 9.3x62 its a 246, I think. You will find the same model with a large ring or small ring. The swedes never paid that much attention to which it is. The 640 is a modernized action like the FN supreme. This model has the old rust blueing and is 1943 manufacture.

The work I had done in Africa was on a simular rifle that was a M94/m96 action. The swedes called them a 96 or at least uncle Hans did.

Aaron

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Originally posted by dpcd:
96s I assume.
Nothing wrong with making them 62s. and altering them however you like; there is no collector value; they aren't rare; shooters.

NO its a m98 - I already did this 19 years ago with a m96 and the magazine is a little short.

True, those Huskys have so many variations but the same model number. My 640 is the commercial, but the swing safety not the push safety. Every time I try to find another I have to look closely at the safety (I don't like that CZ/Whitworth/Interarms safety)

I have a 1952 FN receiver I would trade you for your receiver. It already has a bent bolt and the stripper clip boss milled off. It hasn't been drilled for mounts and has a blank receiver ring. It has the post war FN bottom metal with the push button floor plate release and the magazine is 30-06 length. Let me know if you're interested.

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I have a 1952 FN receiver I would trade you for your receiver. It already has a bent bolt and the stripper clip boss milled off. It hasn't been drilled for mounts and has a blank receiver ring. It has the post war FN bottom metal with the push button floor plate release and the magazine is 30-06 length. Let me know if you're interested.

Thanks but I want the pre-war rust blued gun. I don't know if i'll be able to drill it though.

It's a 146. The 640 came in three flavors actually, 96, 98 Military style and 98 Commercial style actions. They also had two different barrel styles

The 640's were never offered in 9,3x57 but were made in 9,3x62.

The 246 was simply a 146 with Antioxid barrel and chambered in 9,3x62.

The M46AN was simply an M46A (96 BASED) but had a barrel made of the same Antioxid material and chambered in 9,3x62.

This pair of nice 146's became 9,3x62's.

OK, So I have had a 146 in a 96, shot game in Africa with it...

I now have a 146 in 98 that like the 96 I'll have it reamed to 62mm

I did have a M46AN that had a special order tang safety. I had Bo Casserberg and Hans Hyden verify that it was a factory add on. Hans is shooting moose in the sky and Bo is a retired professor in Minnesota.

I had a like new 1640 in 9.3x62 but it was a late one with aluminum bottom metal.

And the one in the classified that you should buy from me.

Yes that is a lovely brace of rifles you have!

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Originally posted by ismith:
I have a 1952 FN receiver I would trade you for your receiver. It already has a bent bolt and the stripper clip boss milled off. It hasn't been drilled for mounts and has a blank receiver ring. It has the post war FN bottom metal with the push button floor plate release and the magazine is 30-06 length. Let me know if you're interested.

If that was directed at me, thanks, but I'm not letting mine go haha. I can't find another wing safety for anywhere close to what I paid

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Originally posted by z1r:
It's a 146. The 640 came in three flavors actually, 96, 98 Military style and 98 Commercial style actions. They also had two different barrel styles

The 640's were never offered in 9,3x57 but were made in 9,3x62.

The 246 was simply a 146 with Antioxid barrel and chambered in 9,3x62.

The M46AN was simply an M46A (96 BASED) but had a barrel made of the same Antioxid material and chambered in 9,3x62.

This pair of nice 146's became 9,3x62's.

Gorgeous guns Z1R!

Ya know, I TOLD you exactly where that 640 was, but you and Matt slept on it haha. That guns so smooth its got me looking for more of them instead of my precious M70 's

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Originally posted by ismith:
I have a 1952 FN receiver I would trade you for your receiver. It already has a bent bolt and the stripper clip boss milled off. It hasn't been drilled for mounts and has a blank receiver ring. It has the post war FN bottom metal with the push button floor plate release and the magazine is 30-06 length. Let me know if you're interested.

If that was directed at me, thanks, but I'm not letting mine go haha. I can't find another wing safety for anywhere close to what I paid

It wasn't, but the offer stands for anyone with a 146 with an unbuggered FN 98 action that wants to bugger it!

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Originally posted by ismith:

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Originally posted by MileHighShooter:

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Originally posted by ismith:
I have a 1952 FN receiver I would trade you for your receiver. It already has a bent bolt and the stripper clip boss milled off. It hasn't been drilled for mounts and has a blank receiver ring. It has the post war FN bottom metal with the push button floor plate release and the magazine is 30-06 length. Let me know if you're interested.

If that was directed at me, thanks, but I'm not letting mine go haha. I can't find another wing safety for anywhere close to what I paid

It wasn't, but the offer stands for anyone with a 146 with an unbuggered FN 98 action that wants to bugger it!

this thread should have come up yesterday, I just sold an unmolested 146 this morning.

I did much the same thing as you have planned.

Bought a Husky 146 that was already drilled for weaver mounts. I didn't want to drill an original gun. I replaced the aluminium weaver bases with steel warne bases. I had the gun reamed to 62mm and added two crossbolts. I epoxy bedded the receiver and the first inch of barrel. Added a low profile safety. Refinished the stock and topped it with a leupold 2-7x and done.

I don't know all the models of these; none is marked; I only know if they have 96 or 98 actions.
And I have several of them.
I rechambered three 96 Huskys to 62mm this winter; if you seat a Hornady 286 grain at the cannelure they fit fine in the mag.

The model 246 was a Belgium made large ring Mauser with a Husky barrel. It came in 9.3 x 62. There were only about 250 made.

As an aside, if someone has a real interest in these, I have one with a Lyman receiver sight that just sits in my safe. Pm me if interested

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Originally posted by Schrodinger's Cat:
The model 246 was a Belgium made large ring Mauser with a Husky barrel. It came in 9.3 x 62. There were only about 250 made.

As an aside, if someone has a real interest in these, I have one with a Lyman receiver sight that just sits in my safe. Pm me if interested

pm'd you...

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Yeah she is good lookin'