Krag-Jørgensen guttekarabin m/06, (boys carbine). Rebarreled at Kongsberg to enlarged Krag 8x54mm in the late fourties. No drill and tap S&K mount. Different scope now, Hensoldt Diasta 4x32.

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Very interesting looking carbine.  Do you shoot it?  Do you know why it was rebarreled?  It is close to the Danish Krag calibre.  Are  you thinking of selling it or posting because it is cool?

Tom

This was my late fathers elk gun, he had it rebarrel, 6,5x55 was marginal for a big elk at that time as well.  After WWII there was a lack of hunting weapons in Norway, since the Germans had confiscated and destroyed all civilan weapons.

  Last 30 years it has been inactive due to lack of factory Norma ammo.
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8x54 KJ is ordinary 6,5x55 necked up to 8(i.e.7,92)mm.
I got myself a set of dies and after annealing and fireforming the brass, gun and ammo passed the test with flying colours.

This is a calibre rarely seen these days, in Sweden there are still a few Husquarnas around, and I think it deserves more recognition with respesct to the past history.
.........and it is not for sale.

That is interesting information and a very cool rifle!!