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All cleaned up and ready to go.

It must be Norwegian. Krag-Petersen?

It is Norwegian, sold by the Hagen sporting store as it takes one of their custom cartridges. But it has no makers name on it.

Never seen anything like it but I like it!

What caliber? How does it shoot?

Looks like one of the many variations on a Martini to me. Am I missing something? Sidelever instead of an underlever; not too odd. Kinda slow, but gets the job done. Rifle seems well made and finished.

Also interested in caliber, origin.

Many of the Norwegian sporting rifle caliber's were based on the military rounds. However they were made just a little smaller so you could use the sporting cartridges in a military rifle but you could not use the military cartridges in a sporting gun.

This rifle is chambered in a LV#4 10.15 X 60.5R. Just slightly smaller than the 10.5 X 61R Jarmann.
Here is a picture of the chamber cast next to the military Jarmann case.

It's amazing how little throat erosion is indicated by the chamber cast. I suppose that is typical of black powder cartridges.

Did you try to chamber the Jarmann military cartridge? Using a dummy would be best of course.

In 1975, I met Martha Gilson. She was the widow of an Arctic geologist & mining engineer. I buried my friend in 1993. In the time between, I listened to her stories. Martha spent the winter of her 21st year on Svalbard (1917) and from 1919 to 1928 lived in Tromso, Norway, & made many winter trips. She became an accomplished photographer, as in Natl Geographic. She said that on Svalbard, everyone carried a rifle wherever they went because of the bears. She carried a Nor. Krag sporter, with one in the chamber, safety on, & a full magazine.

Martha said that in the far north, once out of town, money was useless & that cartridges took the place of money. The only rifles of value were those chambered for one of the Scandinavian military cartridges because you could get more ammunition. The rest were useless when the ammo ran out. She also said that sporting rifles were marked as being chambered for proprietary cartridges for political purposes(& mentioned the 256 Gibbs) but if you tried to shoot military cartridges (6.5 x 55 in the Gibbs) in them, they worked just fine.

I was hoping the Jarmann case would fit but it gets stuck about halfway in.

John

Chamber cast shows a typical chamber for a paper-patched or bore diameter bullet, no lead.

Where the originals bore-diameter?

Interesting rifle, thanks for sharing.