HANDMADE RIFLES , BESPOKE IN EVERY DETAIL .
The art of Swedish GUNMAKING
A passion for perfection . This has made VO Vapen legendary among renowned hunters all over the world . Rifles that are a true marriage between tradition and innovation . And it all started with a modest man with a true love for his craft .
Today , VO Vapen is known as the finest manufacturer of handmade hunting rifles . On their client list , there are devoted hunters and collectors from all over the globe . In a unique , grand building in the south of Sweden , VO Faktori , every detail of the rifle is made from scratch – a process quite unheard of in the world of modern gunmaking . One part of the building is devoted to the stock , another to mechanics , and so on . It is a facility where tradition and innovation truly go hand in hand .
“ Our country has a long tradition of metalwork , forged from our very own world-renowned steel . But we take perfection and new technology very seriously up here . This is , after all , the country where Linnaeus classified the natural world and Celsius created an exact temperature scale ,” Ulf Olsson explains , Sweden ’ s last gunsmith as he likes to think of himself . Sweden has , after all , a long and proud history of rifle making dating back to the times when the country was a major European power .
Ulf Olsson is the son of the founder , Viggo Olsson , who in 1977 transformed his passion into a profession . Already a well-known artisan in carpentry he created a company devoted to the art of gunmaking and started working in his garage . Quite a contrast to the magnificent building , nextdoor to a renaissance castle , where he works today . For years he travelled around and worked side by the side with some of the finest craftsmen in the region of Brescia and Val Trompia , known for its long tradition in gunmaking . As he learned from the best , ideas of his own started to take shape , so he founded VO Vapen .
Slowly at first , stories about the precision and craftsmanship of Viggo Olsson began to spread throughout the hunting community . Everyone was happy to stand in line to purchase their own rif le , made by the master gunsmith ’ s hand . Members of the Swedish royal family clearly enjoyed hunting with their very own VO Royal rifle . At this point most of the customers were in Scandinavia , but all that was about