hello maybe you can help, I have a beautiful full stock mannlicher in 30-06 this gun is almost new condition and un altered in any way. it has a monte carlo stock with a cap on the end of the pistol grip. it has an oil finish walnut two piece stock and crisp perfect checkering and 20in barrel. the sel. no. is 23xxx followed by the word nitro with what looks like a crown and marking above that. I love full stock guns, when I found this one in a pawn shop it came home with me. It had vintage redfield mount and rings. I added a new vintage ted Williams (weaver) 3x9 scope made around 1960 [img][IMG]http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd445/olskool1/_MG_4101_zpsulctgpt2.jpg[/img][/img] [img][IMG]http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd445/olskool1/_MG_4096_zpsjapiib6g.jpg[/img][/img] the whole rig looks like a classic beauty. can you please give me some info? when was it made and how rare is it and app. value. any help will be appreciated.

It was made in the 60's as it looks to be a CRF model. It may or may not say either Tradewinds or Smith and Wesson on the top of the barrel, otherwise it will read 'Husqvarna Wapenfabriks'. As far as rare, yeah the Mannlicher stocked Husky's are very uncommon. Because of that I'd place the value at $750. Nice find!

yes sir it reads on the barrel 'Husqvarna Wapenfabriks' I know I have never seen a full stock husky. the scope was new in the box and it is from the 60s and looks like a perfect match, I zeroed it in with my handloads and it is a tack driver shooting 1/2 in groups. thanks for the response.

Nice score!

Good find on the Husky. Yours looks to be really nice. I have one (full stock) but not as "minty" as one in your pics. Mine is 06 with no montecarlo…ok trigger, but not great. I have a couple of half-stocks but have only bumped into one other full-stock in a shop for sale. Regards, Bruce

That's a gorgeous rifle. I saw lots of them in Sweden when I was moose hunting. The later Carl Gustaf push feeds are also very popular there. 6.5x55 and .30-06 are the favorite calibers.
Bob

That is a 1600 HVA action. Without the Monte Carlo butt, it was known as the model 456 in the U.S. and 1600H in other countries. I don't know if the designation changed when the M/C was added.
Your serial number indicates YOP was 1959-1960.

great info fellers, the gun looks like it was put in a closet in 1960 and someone pulled it out and took it to the pawn shop for me to buy. i know the value is around 700-800 range but right now i would not take 1000 for it, i really love it. i have two more mannlichers, one is a rare H&R ultra rifle model 301 in 243 cal. the other is a old ruger international in 243 i reallylike the full stocks.

You're likely to like the Husqvarna mannlicher the best of the three, as it has the best balance. Husqvarna got their mannlicher stocked rifles just right, not too long/short, not too heavy/light, just right in all aspects.

I've had two of the 30-06 FS versions and have seen another in 270 Win. They are excellent rifles. I still own the top one.

The bottom was my first and was bought from a collector and may never have been shot before I got it. It was imported and marked by S&W. The top one was not imported by S&W and is marked as HVA. It was slightly altered by the orignal owner. It came with the owner's manual. It looks like this now.

Both rifles are accurate, the S&W one was less well finished and machined than the HVA one, but was closer to original (I put on a recoil pad but did not cut the stock and kept the original butt plate with the rifle when I sold it.) As mentioned the first owner of the HVA had the butt cut, a recoil pad installed, the rear sight replaced by a slug in the dovetail and a different grip cap installed.

I had the factory trigger greatly improved by a skilled gunsmith. It is my experience that the Husqvarna front sight hoods come off easily under recoil, so keep an eye on yours. The first time I shot the S&W rifle the muzzle cap flew off into a snowbank! It took me more than a week to find it.

I love the rifle but never seem to pick it up when I go hunting in the very open terrain I hunt and I always pick a different rifle. (I should sell it so if some one has the urge to own an non-collector HVA FS, send me a pm.)

After owning four Husky's I'd say the best finished ones were the Smith & Wessons. But you can't go wrong with any of them. Much like the pre 64 model 70 they can take whatever you can dish out and they aren't going to break on you. Remington and Winchester went to cheaper manufqcturing techniques but Husqvarna never did. That's why Husqvarna doesn't make guns anymore. Zoli picked up the design but I never see any of those.

Might also mention Chuck Hawks considers Husky's to be among the finest bolt rifles ever made and Swedish steel is known to be the strongest, finest steel.

Just got off the phone with the Zoli guys here in America (Texas) and they stated that the Zoli-manufactured guns will be available (both left and right handed) after the first of the year. I'd love to have a lefty .30-06.
Bob

Cool. The OPs pics are worth the bandwidth. LOL

even the sling on my rifle is vintage to the gun it is a Brauer bor. st louis I was going to change the mount to a classic weaver until I did a little research. the mount on it is a redfield like I never saw before and are sought after on ebay. so I left it as is.

Nice rifle OLSKOOL, do yourself a favour and set your Photobucket account to private.

I've owned several HVA's and wished I would have kept them all. The full stock I owned was in 308 and it was a great shooter. Some of the lightweight models were prone to cracking the back tang area in the stock and the full stock models were in that group. Bedding the action and releaving the tang area will assure that doesn't happen.
I still have a push feed model, Imperial Grade 8000, and one of the early imported Zoli's.
What lead you to believe that the Redfield base was rare?

The Husqvarna.



An older photo of the Zoli.

The late SBHVA told me the tangs crack because of the steel tube the rear action/trigger guard slides through. The stock shrinks from age and that causes the trigger guard screw to bottom out on the metal tube it sits in which then stresses the tang area. You either file the metal tube flush with the stock or discard it and your tang is safe.

What a great resource and real gentleman SBHVA was.

Yes indeed.

That's a very cool rifle and a great find. Hope you enjoy it!


Did Husky ever make a LH action?

No.

Link here is a pretty good resource on husqvarnas!

http://forums.gunboards.com/forumdisplay.php?50-Swedish-Civilian-amp-Sporting-Firearms

Here a a couple of more links with info.

Complete list of Husqvarna civilian arms

and here is another link with more info on the Husqvarna 1600 series models Husqvarna

John

I had one. It was very accurate

If you are thinking of selling it .forget it you will regret it..most refined Mauser made ans smoothest also...small ring for a lighter weight and a nifty ingenious bolt release....every husky I have had shot well and they got the balance right..

Big husqvarna fan here, but they typically have a pretty awful trigger pull. Finding a tradewinds adjustable one built for them is tough, and pricey.

The push feed S&W Huskies had adjustable triggers. They were the best of the Husqvarna triggers.

I don't know if the action is Husqvarna, but I bought my wife a LH rifle marked HVA-Carl Gustaf-Sweden, FORENADE FABRIKSVERKEN, chambered in 25-06. It's a beautiful rifle!

Ol. Mine I got in high school when I was 14 w/a 280000 SN and was a 243 Mani. I shot the barrel out shooting ground squirrels w/50 cent a pound 4831 and 80 gr Speer rejects @ $2.50/hun. I then rebarreled it to 308 which I shot from about 1971 till now. I had Jim Dubell make a 338-06 bbl. (both 20.5" factory profile) for it which it has on now. I swith back and forth w/the 308. The reason for the 338-06 is for timber elk as well as I have a Moose tag this fall. I have loved that rifle for about 50 years now as it is short, light, great balance and quite attractive. The 250gr. NPT loaded full blast is not for those afraid of recoil though!- Muddy

Weren't the first Husqvarna rifles sold in USA imported by Tradewinds? The guns had the schnabel forend and pic of a Husky dog in the adds. Back in the early 60s.

I remember the S&W rifles being an early 70s introduction, maybe mid-70s? Buddy of mine has a Tradewinds Husky, a well-used .30-06. Great rifle, all you could ever want.

Tradewinds was the first importer of Husqvarna from the late 50's to 1966 when Smith and Wesson began importing them. At that point Tradewinds switched to Krico rifles. 1970 saw the end of Husqvarna rifle production.

Tradewinds muddied the water by keeping the same name, H-5000, for the Krico imports after S&W became the Husqvarna importer.

Yes they did. A lot of people still think Krico's are Husky's. Some even think Zoli's and Carl Gustaf's are Husky's. The waters have been pretty muddied and even FN gets confused with Husqvarna.

Husqvarna used FN large ring 98 actions on the 640 series in the late 1940s. I have them in 6.5x55, 8x57, and 9.3x62.

Yup. Then there was the JC Higgins model 51 which was a mix of FN and Husqvarna. It's very confusing.

Mine is is a Hi-Standard. The front sight looks like it came off some kind of Ray Gun but the action is all Husqvarna (HVA). It shoots as well as any 30/06, day in and day out, that I've ever had. It is my go to rough hunting gun.