Dino,

Thanks! Actually took it out this weekend for moose hunting but didn't shoot anything, even though I was close to moose, deer and boar.

Regarding re-chambering, AFAIK my gunsmith didn't need to move the barrel anything, he just opened up the chamber with a x62 tool.

The Swedish law limits the number of hunting guns you can own to 6, the first four you can have whatever you want (for example you could have 4 centerfire rifles), but the last two you need to motivate and they need to differ enough from the other ones. So if you have 4 rifles its easy to get a shotgun. And if you have a small caliber rifle you can always motivate another if it is of larger caliber and so on. But the required motivation isn't specified in any way so it is on a case to case basis.

But this law only applies to rifles and shotguns, there is different rules when it comes to handguns etc. And you can have a shotgun for sport shooting / practice outside of the 6 others.

And that is one of the reasons that these kind of rifles are valued so low. A 146 generally cost around $200 if it is in decent shape. And a 46 you can have for less than ~$100.

/C