Thread: collectors category

Norway is one of the few places where antique firearms can be had dirt cheap.Its a combination of us being limited to 8 long arms for hunting and a general lack of interest in anything old.However if a firearm was made before 1891 you dont need a licence for it and you can have as many as you want.Colt peacemakers,Winchester lever actions,fancy European sporting guns etc can be shot with but you cant hunt anything with a handgun and only animals up to Roe Deer with most back powder guns.

This is because the energy required for hunting big game is for some reason calculated at 300 meters distance.Not that the government encourages anyone to shoot that far,the annual shooting test every hunter is required to pass is held at 100 meters but its to keep the back powder stuff out of the woods.I have passed the shooting test with all sorts of odd firearms just to prove a point (I once passed it with a Snider as well as a 9X19mm Pistol) you have to get 5 hits on a 30 cm target at 100 meters standing,prone,sitting or kneeling.