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Old 04-30-2008, 07:53 PM   #5
Purdy
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Originally Posted by Capt'n Mil Coll View Post
To me it looks like a standard Mauser Sporting Rifle. Almost like a Model 77. The front sight is what all later Mauser sporting rifles have. I thought it might be a K98 bubbaed to a hunting stock but the shield on the butt plate is a Mauser Logo. Looks more like a hunting rifle than a bubbaed military.
I have to disagree about the but plate "logo", it looks like several butt plates I have that I got from Herter's and Brownell's. The gun looks like a nice post war conversion, probably brought back by some occupation GI.
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