{"id":16888,"date":"2017-06-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/interarms-g33-50-not-a-real-carbine\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:00:00","slug":"interarms-g33-50-not-a-real-carbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/interarms-g33-50-not-a-real-carbine\/","title":{"rendered":"InterArms G33\/50: Not a Real Carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EINVxBmUbQg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Among the many Swedish Mauser carbines imported into the United States is an interesting batch of guns marked &#8220;InterArms G33\/50&#8221;. What are these actually?<\/p>\n<p>They are rifles imported by InterArms, of course, and they began life as proper Swedish m\/94 and m\/94-14 carbines. Upon import, though, their manufacturing dates were ground off and replaced with that G33\/50 designation. In addition, their original Swedish unit disks were replaced with new disks that said &#8220;Cal 6.5mm Swedish &#8211; Made in Sweden&#8221;. These changes allowed the rifles to comply with all import marking requirements without having anything that would appear to be a newly added importer&#8217;s mark.<\/p>\n<p>While I cannot prove it, I suspect this was done as a marketing trick to make the guns more appealing than standard carbines. The designation is very similar to the legitimate German &#8220;G33\/40&#8221;, which was a short mountain troops&#8217; carbine, and highly desirable. In the days before the internet allowed easy access to information, this easily could have been interpreted to be an elite Swedish alpine carbine.<\/p>\n<p>The replacement markings make these rifles largely shunned by collectors who are looking for original condition guns, but they do remain both excellent handy shooters and also a source of proper parts to restore other Swedish carbines.<\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merchandise! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many Swedish Mauser carbines imported into the United States is an interesting batch of guns marked &#8220;InterArms G33\/50&#8221;. What are these actually? They are rifles imported by InterArms, of course, and they began life as proper Swedish m\/94 and m\/94-14 carbines. Upon import, though, their manufacturing dates were ground off and replaced with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/21\/interarms-g33-50-not-a-real-carbine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">InterArms G33\/50: Not a Real Carbine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":16889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}