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Trying to get some information on a friends rifle for them, and if I get a chance I will post a picture, but this is what I have.
Bolt action, military style rifle, bayonet lug, and has a covered side-loading cartridge access on the right side. Guns about 5 feet long. The rifle has matching serial numbers except for the bolt, and a small medal id plate on the stock. The receiver is marked Haerens Tojhus 1917 with M89 under the letters. There is no caliber indication on the gun. Any information on origin, caliber, and value will be appreciated. Thanks.
Bolt action, military style rifle, bayonet lug, and has a covered side-loading cartridge access on the right side. Guns about 5 feet long. The rifle has matching serial numbers except for the bolt, and a small medal id plate on the stock. The receiver is marked Haerens Tojhus 1917 with M89 under the letters. There is no caliber indication on the gun. Any information on origin, caliber, and value will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Sounds, off the top of my head, like a Norwegian Krag-Jorgensen rifle but I think the M89 thing might belie that. The side loading cartridge trap is the thing that sets me in that direction,but you will need to post a picture to really get much of a response from the forum members. Does it have a caliber designation on it? 6.5x55 mm by any chance?
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1KYDSTR,I owned a Norwegian Krag-Jorgensen rifle once in 6.5X55 and no where on the rifle was the caliber marked.
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It appears you have a model 1889 Danish Krag-Jorgensen, caliber 8mm Danish.Haerens Tojhus was the Danish Army Arsenal.It should also have a tube covering the barrel. This served as a handguard.Someone else will have to help on a current value.
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I didn't know there were 2 arsenals in Denmark! Learn new things all the time! I was looking at one on the auction site and it was marked Copenhagen (spelled in Danish of course) so I figured this one must have been Norwegian! Sounds like you got it right; sorry for the confusion.
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"Power corrupts...Absolute power corrupts absolutely"(Descartes?)
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
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Most military rifles are NOT marked as to the chambering. Think about it, the issuing country knows what ammo that model takes, and most likely only has that ammo in inventory anyway. Exceptions being things like the British Home Guard "Red Band" rifles which had special external markings to indicate that they took a (to the Brit's) "non-standard" cartridge (30-06 vs the standard 303Brit cartridge)
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Yea...O.K., point taken already!
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"Power corrupts...Absolute power corrupts absolutely"(Descartes?)
"History is written by winners"(Patton)
"You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone!"(Al Capone)
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