Hi Mad g-smith.....
I have just bought one.....a 1906 Carl Gustaf M96 with apeture sights.
Mine has a Soderin brand sight, others available were Pram, Elit and GF diopter.
The fore sight is a tunnel type with changeable elements....mine has the ring on a post element.
As I understand it, these rifles were sold to the civilian target shooters pre-WW2 because they had an increase in members of 300,000!!!
The Swedish government sold them to the club members on the condition that they would sell them back to the government if Sweden were drawn into the war.
It was the civilians who set them up with the diopter sights.
I don't think their sniper rifles ever had diopters....I suspect that you know that the sniper rifle is the M41 and M41b and that they were all scoped.
Initialy they had German AJACK scopes and latter, the localy made AGA scopes which were said to be inferior to the German ones.
And OH BOY would I LOVE one!!!!!
The Metallverken Vasteras rear sights were an open sight with a micrometer wheel adjustment (25M increments from 250M to 600M) said to have been used on the M96-38's when they changed from the early 156 grn m/94 cartridge to the 139 grn m/94/41 spitzer rounds
I have, an Husqvarna M38 carbine, a Carl Gustavf CG63 6.5 x 55, an Obendorf CG63-.22 single shot and the above mentioned M96.
The M96 civilian rifles were known as the "Frivilligia skytterorelsen" or Fsr rifles.
Cheers Mad.
I have just bought one.....a 1906 Carl Gustaf M96 with apeture sights.
Mine has a Soderin brand sight, others available were Pram, Elit and GF diopter.
The fore sight is a tunnel type with changeable elements....mine has the ring on a post element.
As I understand it, these rifles were sold to the civilian target shooters pre-WW2 because they had an increase in members of 300,000!!!
The Swedish government sold them to the club members on the condition that they would sell them back to the government if Sweden were drawn into the war.
It was the civilians who set them up with the diopter sights.
I don't think their sniper rifles ever had diopters....I suspect that you know that the sniper rifle is the M41 and M41b and that they were all scoped.
Initialy they had German AJACK scopes and latter, the localy made AGA scopes which were said to be inferior to the German ones.
And OH BOY would I LOVE one!!!!!
The Metallverken Vasteras rear sights were an open sight with a micrometer wheel adjustment (25M increments from 250M to 600M) said to have been used on the M96-38's when they changed from the early 156 grn m/94 cartridge to the 139 grn m/94/41 spitzer rounds
I have, an Husqvarna M38 carbine, a Carl Gustavf CG63 6.5 x 55, an Obendorf CG63-.22 single shot and the above mentioned M96.
The M96 civilian rifles were known as the "Frivilligia skytterorelsen" or Fsr rifles.
Cheers Mad.
