Thread: Identify this Husqvarna for registration

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Do it over the phone, much as they dislike it they have to do a manual entry for a new type of firearm and or ammunition I encountered this when registering a Hollis 500 black powder express. Their first suggestion was to register it as 50 bmg, as that was all their system had. I also encountered it again with a 7x57r "let's just call it 7x57 ok?" No not ok

I registered a 338BR and they quickly added that calibre to their list instead of 338 Lapua Mag

The problem I have is if you list an x rifle as a y rifle and the cops do a check and you get a cunty one theres the possibilty of you supplying false information and theres a rifle registered to you that isnt here...

I just found a similar Husqvarna rile sold in Canada in 2020. Butt Stock is Monte Carlo but otherwise very very close

Originally Posted by blip

The problem I have is if you list an x rifle as a y rifle and the cops do a check and you get a cunty one theres the possibilty of you supplying false information and theres a rifle registered to you that isnt here...

I already had that

A Luger I own has a rusty serial number and the Police 10 years ago did not want to get into correcting their records. So this time they refused to tell me what they have on their records and told me to guess it……….. you can imagine what happened. Police said I had an extra unregistered Luger and where is XXXX Luger?

They have an entry for it - I have registered two of them exactly the same as yours.

Just tell them its a :

Make - Husqvarna,
model - 1640,
Caliber - .30/06
non detachable mag.



Your problem is a serial number - (there is not usually a serial number under the bolt on these Husqvarna's, I have had several, none of them had a number on the bolt, so forget that. The serial number was on the original barrel. Yours has been rebarrelled.)

I would just make up a number and then later get someone with a dremel tool to etch the same number on. B140. There you go.

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

They have an entry for it - I have registered two of them exactly the same as yours.

Just tell them its a :

Make - Husqvarna,
model - 1640,
Caliber - .30/06
non detachable mag.



Your problem is a serial number - (there is not usually a serial number under the bolt on these Husqvarna's, I have had several, none of them had a number on the bolt, so forget that. The serial number was on the original barrel. Yours has been rebarrelled.)

I would just make up a number and then later get someone with a dremel tool to etch the same number on. B140. There you go.

Great, thanks John

Glad to hear that my one is not unusual, all that rosewood finishing makes it very unique compared to European and North American models.

Do you have any photographs of yours that you can post? Have you used your serial numbers to indicate a rough year of manufacture?

Someone has already dremeled a long number under the receiver, its 7 numbers long starting with 1814XXX

Originally Posted by John Duxbury

They have an entry for it - I have registered two of them exactly the same as yours.

Just tell them its a :

Make - Husqvarna,
model - 1640,
Caliber - .30/06
non detachable mag.



Your problem is a serial number - (there is not usually a serial number under the bolt on these Husqvarna's, I have had several, none of them had a number on the bolt, so forget that. The serial number was on the original barrel. Yours has been rebarrelled.)

I would just make up a number and then later get someone with a dremel tool to etch the same number on. B140. There you go.

Sorry John, beg to differ. Way back in the late 80's, Graham Henry of Rod and Rifle fame pointed this out to me, when he was compiling an article about the feasibility of working a VZ33 to match a Husky 1600. Spent months on it. And he told me that the Husqvarna's had each bolt individually fitted by a gunsmith, and once the bolt was fitted to the action the gunsmith then 'engraved"/dremeled the last 4 digits of the 6 digit serial number on the underside of the bolt handle. Some are very faint, some are plain as day, all depended on individual gunsmith cos there were a few of them. I've also had the opportunity to handle a good number of Huskies, and cant recall a single one that I couldnt see a 4 digit number under the bolt handle.
Here is a pic of a 1600 bolt, and a 1900 bolt. The 1900 looks like it was either mechanically punched on the underside of the bolt body, or laser engraved. But not sure that laser engraving was a thing back in the 70's -