The Swedish chose the 6.5x55mm cartridge and the 1896 Mauser or M96 as their rifle of choice. The Swedish Mauser as it is affectionately called got its beginnings in 1896.Serial numbers are matching except for floor plate and upper barrel band. Carl Gustav 1896 Mauser 6.5x55 Swedish caliber rifle. The first was by Eskilstuna Jernmanufactur AB (EJ-anchor-AB) beginning around 1899 – 1912. The bayonets as far as I can tell, were made from 3 different manufacturer’s and had 3 distinctive manufacture markings. The Swedish Mauser Rifle has a rather nifty bayonet called the Swedish Bayonet, Swedish 1896 bayonet, M96 Bayonet or Swedish Mauser Bayonet.'Swedish Steel' is a term for the steel used by the Swedish and Mauser manufacturing facilities to make the M96 rifles. The Swedish Mauser was manufactured relatively unchanged from 1896 to 1943, and M96 Rifle and M38 Carbine rifles, known by collectors as 'Swedish Mausers,' are often sought after by military service rifle shooters and hunters.RCBS reports that 6.5x55 reloading dies have consistently been on their top 30 best seller list for many years. It is a medium capacity cartridge that has been proven all over the world. Suffice to say that it combines the virtues of moderate recoil, reasonable trajectory, and good killing power. The 6.5x55 cartridge has been well covered in the pages of Guns and Shooting Online, including a dedicated article and comparison articles on the Rifle Cartridge Page, so I will not go into it in depth here.
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