Bought My First Swede

[MoBoost]

The lapua brass was very nice, but still required the flash holes to be deburred.

Dang, I never even checked mine ... now I will.

 

[338Shooter]

They were gnarly. Worse than the Winchester 7-08 brass.

 

[flatwins]

Don't know yet.

The lapua brass was very nice, but still required the flash holes to be deburred. Not a big deal, but I was hoping to do nothing to it. Got all 200 pieces deburred and primed.

As expensive as Lapua brass is, I'd hope it to require not much finishing. I still have yet to order some but it's on the list of things to get.

 

[338Shooter]

All I had to do was deburr the flash holes. Everything else was fine.

 

[milsurp2.0]

Super nice rifle! I wouldn't touch the wood!

 

[338Shooter]

I hope this week I can touch the wood, haha. My 7-08 action should be back soon so I'll have it to occupy my time.

 

[aeropb]

happy times

 

[engineer40]

congrats! I got to shoot my first swede last week! Awesome experience but now I must own one...or two

 

[338Shooter]

Well it came. What a hunk of no shooting junk. MoBoost shot 3 different loads (3 rounds each) into a group that was about an inch. 4 of the firs 6 rounds were touching. Rifle is beautiful. All numbers matching (except the cleaning rod). I'll get some pictures. Went straight to the range yesterday and got home too late for pics.

 

[Perplexed]

Par for the course for a Swedish M96 - now you see why those rifles consistently place in the top 5 in a milsurp bolt action competition, huh? Is that varnish on the butt stock, where the range plate used to be? A lot of soldiers and civvie owners would do that to preserve the plate, but it should be easy enough to remove the varnish if you want to clean it up there.