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Description: "Probably THE best Mausers ever produced," says Brownells Gun Tech™ and resident firearm historian Keith Ford about Swedish Mausers. Today he shows us a Swedish Model 1894 Mauser carbine chambered in (of course) 6.5x55mm Swedish. The M94 carbine was actually adopted two years before the full-size Model 1896 infantry rifle. Keith's example was built for the Swedish Navy in 1903... but it looks like it just came off the assembly line! In 1914, the Navy decided it didn't need bayonets on its rifles, and Keith's was among those that had their bayonet lugs removed and were designated M94-14 models. About 125,000 examples of the smooth-operating, sweet-shooting M1894 were manufactured by 1933. The M94 has the standard three-position Mauser safety, but the bolt cocks the firing pin on CLOSING rather than on opening like most Mausers. The rear sight is optimistically ranged out to 1,600 meters. One of the reasons Keith's M94 is in such good condition is that the Swedish military took good care of their rifles and never used ammo with corrosive primers. But why does his gun have that odd little nosepiece on the muzzle? (Hint: ATF regulations are involved.) The M1894, along with the M1896 was phased out of Swedish service in the 1950s.