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A number of CG 63 match rifles were acquired by the Swedish Army, with their rifles colloquially known as Gevär 6 if in 6.5×55mm and Gevär 7 if in 7.62×51mm. These competition/target rifles were used by members of the Swedish Volunteer Sharpshooting Movement Frivilliga Skytterörelsen (FSR) and are known to be very accurate for their price ...
After the Swedish name, the international name is shown. ... Swedish 6,5 mm m/94, 6.5×55mm Mauser; 7,62 mm ptr 10, 7.62×51mm NATO; 8 mm m/39, 7.92×57mm;
Steyr Model 1912 Mauser; Swedish Mauser; T. Turkish Mauser; V. Vz. 24; Vz. 33 This page was last edited on 16 December 2014, at 22:25 (UTC). Text is available under ...
Swedish Mauser This page was last edited on 12 October 2021, at 19:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The Swedish Mauser arms had a relatively tight 200 mm (1 in 7.87 in) twist rate optimized for stabilizing the relatively long heavy bullets used in the Swedish 6.5×55mm military service ammunition. It was also used in several light, medium and heavy machine guns such as the Schwarzlose , Browning BAR , Kg/1940 Light machine gun , Bren Gun ...
The 8×63mm patron m/32 was a bottlenecked centrefire cartridge with a slightly (0.25 mm (0.0098 in)) rebated rim for Swedish heavy and medium machine guns. It was used from 1932 to the finalisation of the re-chambering process of these machine guns to 7.62×51mm NATO in 1975.
For many years, it was assumed that the rifle was developed from the German Knorr-Bremse MG35/36, which saw use with the Wehrmacht and reportedly the Waffen-SS. [1] However, research by Swedish military historian Stellan Bojerud showed that the Kg m/40 was developed from a patent from 1933, in most countries registered to Ivar Joseph Stack as well as Axel Torsten Lindfors, while in Canada and ...
During the Winter War, Finland captured a number of SVT-38 rifles, and at least one found its way to Sweden. The Ag m/42 was designed by Erik Eklund of the AB C.J. Ljungmans Verkstäder company of Malmö, [5] loosely following SVT mechanics around 1941, and entered production at the Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori in Eskilstuna in 1942.