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I observed a few when the shipment hit these shores few years ago. One could buy A&D HVA in very good shape for less than $400 instantly making it the best quality knockabout gun for the dollar spent beating old standby like Sakaba 100. Those HVAs are easily equal to Ithaca NID and the 350 action was used for calibers like 9,3x74 meaning the action is very, very strong. Real good samples have risen in price because they were undervalued when they first arrived here.

I enjoy mine, I have a pair like this, this one is the worst one that I use waterfowl hunting out on the salt marsh. 12ga 2.5" chambers load 7/8 oz ITX 6's in 2.5" Eley or cut down Fiocchi hulls



I bought a third wreck for parts and #4 was suppose to be cut to 24" but when it arrived it was 20" but it has nice wood and the rest of the parts are like new. I kept it just beause it was really cheap when I bought it. The wreck was from Simpsons and was discribed as such and sold as a parts gun, really the only bad part is the barrel, heavily pitted inside and out.

Are there any Swedish members on the forum? I would love to hear their take on these homegrown doubles. As far as I have read, the 310s were the best that Husqvarna made. The much later made 1310 were a sort of homage to the original 310s but If I recall correctly, lacked the intercepting sears. I have a 1310 as well as this 310. My personal 1310 is sans engraving and the wood was beat, but the metal was in very nice shape so I had the bores opened to skt 1 and skt 2 and it will be put to use as a fowl-foul-weather gun.

I had a Husqvarna 310-A 12ga which was pretty worn when I bought it, as many of these imports are. I had Mike Orlen open the chokes and it became my go-to bird gun for several years. Never had a moments trouble with it until the flange on the forend iron that works the extractors broke off. I carried it to the gunshow and swapped it for a .38 pocket revolver...Geo

I've had a couple mod. 50's. Same gun as the 51 except lacking the crossbolt, only in 12ga, and also with straight grip (51's only came with prince of whales grip to my knowledge). Here's a mod. 50 I had briefly last year before I sold it:



Here is a the gun farther away, along with my mod. 44 that I still own (which may be a one of a kind 14ga):

I am of Swedish heritage (my grandfather was a logger from Sweden, and I have relatives there). From what I've seen online on some of the Swedish gun website, the really deluxe models don't seem to make their way over here much. Here are the Husky's I currently own (I've owned and sold a ton over the last five years or so):

A mod. 44 16 or 14ga (it has 14ga. bores, so I'm having custom made brass hulls made for it) This gun is a wonderful shooter, and the barnard damascus barrels are mesmerizing.



Custom mod. 100 16ga, that I've converted to straight grip, re-blued the barrels, and added grain from the previously canoe paddle plain stock, and re-checkered to a checkered butt. This 6lb gun is a fantastic chukar/hun gun, choked ic/xf



mod. 103C 12ga with custom checkering. Am going to re-blue the barrels this weekend.



Mod. 350 skeet. Very rare here, only one of its kind I've ever seen. In a nod to modernity on the skeet line, this is actually the only non-hammer gun I own.

My Husqy 51 (in the center of this pic) . . .

Wow it seems that the Washingtonians own all the hammer huskys!

Mark, I used to live in Lacey and I'm a big fan of your work by the way.

Thanks!