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That's exactly why I started this thread.

Underrated guns IMO.

Greg, beautiful Husky.

But, it doesn't look like it has any German roots to me. Made completely in-house or sourced or, more importantly, no way to tell now.

For Researcher. 12 ga 310 Lyx finished by Oscar Fredriksson.

I'm pretty sure my 51's were built in house as they used Swedish steel(Sanvik) for the barrels and there are no German proof marks anywhere.

A little added info.

http://www.skydevaaben.com/allhvamodels/info.xml

I see your point Oskar. It just doesn't make sense to me though that they would outsource actions for their rifles but build a more complicated action, for a double barrel, in house.

They built break action shotguns for 50 years before they ever got around to a bolt-action repeating rifle. It looks like they used surplus 1894 Swedish carbine actions to start then went to FN 98 action and finally producing their own in the 1950's. Earlier they used Rem Rolling Blocks for rifle and produce some smaller versions on their own.

Gregdownunder, THAT is one pretty gun....

Mergus

They were the arms maker for the Swedish army for a couple hundred years, with sporting arms as their sideline. They made a lot of rolling blocks under license from E. Remington & Sons. After the King's approval of the arms Commission's report on May 8, 1867, Sweden bought 10,000 Remington rifles chambered for the Swedish 12.17mm rimfire cartridge, 20,000 breech systems to convert Swedish muskets to breechloaders, and Swedish Ordnance Officials were granded a license from Remington to manufacture rolling blocks in Sweden. Husqvarna was still offering rolling block shotguns in 1949, after the Model 310 double had been replaced with the Model 615.