{"id":26532,"date":"2025-03-05T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/vapensmia-nm-149s-norways-sniper-conversion-of-the-kar-98k-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:00:10","slug":"vapensmia-nm-149s-norways-sniper-conversion-of-the-kar-98k-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/vapensmia-nm-149s-norways-sniper-conversion-of-the-kar-98k-2\/","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e5pensmia NM-149S: Norway&#8217;s Sniper Conversion of the Kar 98k"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4RtLCuWXJ3M?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>After World War Two, there were a lot of K98k rifles left in Norway. Like, a whole lot of them. So many that even in the 1980s they were still a popular basis for hunting and competition rifles. The Norwegian military contracted with the firm V\u00e5pensmia to make a batch of their VS 84S hunting rifles in 7.62x51mm for use as snipers&#8217; rifles. These used old German model 98 actions, modified to fit 5-round detachable box magazines, bent bolt handles, and short-throw safeties to accommodate the Schmidt &#038; Bender 6x42mm scopes they were fitted with.<\/p>\n<p>After some time in service, an improvement package was adopted, making this example actually an NM-149 F1. As such, it has fixed iron sights instead of detachable ones, a heavier bedded barrel, and a G3 flash hider.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred NM-149 rifles were part of a larger arms sale from Norway to Estonia in 2010, which is how this one ended up in Tallinn. They were used as marksman&#8217;s rifles by the Estonians until being replaced recently by the new 7.62mm LMT &#8220;Rahe&#8221; semiauto rifles.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Supply Battalion of the Estonian Defense Forces Support Command for giving me access to film this hard-to-find rifle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv After World War Two, there were a lot of K98k rifles left in Norway. Like, a whole lot of them. So many that even in the 1980s they were still a popular basis for hunting and competition rifles. The Norwegian military contracted with the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/vapensmia-nm-149s-norways-sniper-conversion-of-the-kar-98k-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">V\u00e5pensmia NM-149S: Norway&#8217;s Sniper Conversion of the Kar 98k<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26533,"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-26532","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\/26532","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=26532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}