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As 2012 drew to a close, I picked up a 30-06 Husky 456 barreled action from a Fire contributor. Steelhead had sold this gun to Karnis, who sold it to the third party, who sold it to a 4th party. UPS broke the stock thru the grip, ruining a fine, full length stock, as 3rd party was delivering to 4th party. I bought the barreled action from 3rd party after 4th party had returned it. Now, that could sound a bit complicated...

I then picked up a used Husky 1640 stock from Karnis. This stock was for a shorter round, like a .308 and the ejector notch was in the wrong place for a 30-06.

It seems that Husky mills a slot in the receiver for the ejector button, placed according the the length of the round. I patched that notch and cut a new one for the longer set up. The 456 barrel is much thinner than the std. 1640 barrel, so I filled the barrel channel with 6#'s of upward pressure at the tip. I went with a Timney trigger to get a really clean 2 1/2# pull on a light rifle. I had to shortened the barrel 1/4" and recut the crown to get to clean, sharp rifling. Rifle is 6#'s 14 oz, all up with scope as you see it.


Here are some photos.

Busted factory 456 stock.


Barreled action bedded in 1640 stock.


Relocated ejector button slot.


Barrel channel gap.


Refinished rifle.




Recut checkering.
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Ejector notch patch job.
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Well done! Nice work on what will probably be a great shooter.

Just got it put together. I have some 130 gr. Ralph Council bullets I want to try. Ralph's 55 gr .224's really do well in my .22-250.

I'll report as the data is gathered.

DF

That's a nice makeover. Should be fun to run.

Looks great!

I see it as a handy walking around rifle for hogs, etc. and a good choice for a ladder stand in the woods.

DF

Nice rifle, glad one of the good ones being kept in action without major changes.

Very nice and well done....

That turned out great - good job on that one.

Very nice. I love these kind of projects. Love Husky's too. I just always had trouble with the lower comb stocks.

Great job....I'd try some 180 grain Core-Lokts in it.

Nice job on that rifle. I'm pretty sure I heard about this rifle before as someone came on to a Swedish rifle forum I belong to and started bellyaching that they bought a mannlicher stocked Husky off GB and it showed up with the stock broke in half. He was pretty miffed and demanded his money back from the seller and then wanted to know if we could point him in the direction of another Mannlicher stocked Husky.

Must have been the 4th party bad mouthing the 3rd party, who didn't package it right. UPS packaging needs to be double boxed and bull stout for when, not if, they run it over with a truck, it will survive.

At least in this case, things worked out in spite of all that negative stuff.

I want to thank Karnis for his help. Due to the small ring, long screw spacing, these guns are harder than one may think to find aftermarket handles. One alternative is to use a large ring stock and glass fill around the front ring. A 96 small ring stock won't work because these guns have large ring screw spacing.

So, Karnis having this stock and letting me have it was what I needed.

DF

Great pictures thanks for posting. Nice rifle and good work.

Good info to know about using a large ring stock as a replacement for the 1640 OEM. I may pick me up a LR synthetic and give it a try. Also need to find a replacement bbl.

A good save, and beautifully done. I like stories like this.

IMHO, those SR M98 Husqvarna's are real sleepers - one of the better buys out there.

Most "experts" will argue because they've never seen one, or that they're really cock-on-closing M96 Mausers.


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As I told DF in his classified ad my 1640 is the smoothest CRF action I've ever handled. It's a .30-06 but will feed reliably 243 Win,257 Roberts,25-06,270 Win,7x57,308 Win,and 9.3x62(left a few out,DF). Mine is actually a S&W Husqvarna so it doesn't have the best trigger.

It's not that big a deal to retrofit a Timney.

Because this gun is relatively light, I wanted a very clean, light trigger for offhand shooting. It's set at 2 1/2#'s.

DF

I read somewhere that you only have to modify the the stock for the Timney safety lever?

Seems I read somewhere that the 1640 is the lightest of the production CRF actions. Wouldn't surprise me.