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Preface

My original idea for this website 5 years ago was to show as many of the stockwoods used on the 1896 Swedish Mauser rifles. Since that time the website has grown to included many different areas of interest. Along the way we've learned much more about these great rifles and their accessories. We've also learned what we thought was ash wasn't, but has in fact been proven to be elm, verified by the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Products Division. To say this turn of events has surprised me would be an understatement, but there it is...

I am especially proud of the collection of disc images, some of which are still unidentified. My own cartridge belt collection is not complete and probably won't ever be, but I'm still very happy with it as it is. Whenever possible I try and collect at least the images of those cartridge carrying impliments that I can so as to make the presentation as complete as possible.

One area that needs improvement is the accessories page. Many accessories were civilian instead of military but I'll still try and collect what I can to complete the picture of what has been, and is available for the various models of Swedish Mausers.

I have deliberately omitted the Husqvarna m/38 rifles as they've never been an area of interest for me, though I do own one excellent example. My preference, and the focus of this website, has always been with the 1894 carbine and 1896 rifle. It has never been my intention to have this website be an A to Z source of information. That degree of research is best left to the several books available on the Swedish Mausers. Hopefully, by the spring or summer of 2002 there will be a new book available that should answer many questions that we've all had.

Suggested texts for the Swedish Mausers would include: