Is that a Mauser action?

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Looks to me like a Mosin Nagant, with Nazi inspection stamps.

edit: see #6 in the illustration below.

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the safety is wrong for an m44 or m91

Or as I like to say, yessssssssssss.

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mandrel for solid-fuel rocket nozzle:

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I grew up with Zwarte Piet who accompanied Sinterklass. When I was of that age we were told that Zwarte Piet gave candies to good kids. Bad kids were taken away in a dark cloth sack.


Zwarte Piet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The magazine well looked like a Mosin to me, and then on the Mosin page I spotted the graphic that I posted. I think it looks like #6 in the image I posted, but since I don't read cryllic, I really don't know what they have identified it as.

Looking at it now, though, I have noticed that I missed a very critical detail. The locking lugs on a Mosin are horizontal. The lugs in that graphic are vertical, so it's not a Mosin.

Until I read more, I'm guessing it is a Gewehr 88, or a Mannlicher rifle.
As shots are fired the clip remains in place until the last round is chambered, at which point it drops through a hole in the bottom of the rifle. This system was used in almost all Mannlicher designs and derivatives, and while it allows for speedy reloading, it also creates an entry point for dirt.


The G88 uses these en bloc clips:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Gewehr_88.jpg

So did I.
Where did you grew up then?

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G-man you have not yet grown up. ;)

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