The 1892 with the 1897 cartouche referred to above was an 1896 in aspects save the cleaning rod.Attachment 40738Attachment 40739Attachment 40740Attachment 40741
I took it to be fakery and will be happy to be proven wrong
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The 1892 with the 1897 cartouche referred to above was an 1896 in aspects save the cleaning rod.Attachment 40738Attachment 40739Attachment 40740Attachment 40741
I took it to be fakery and will be happy to be proven wrong
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Pictures provided don't show the crucial areas (upper band from front, muzzle, lower end of rod groove with band pulled forward, etc.) Clearly it is a thin wrist stock, but with a 96 bolt, though apparently the receiver has not been notched- at least it seems to have a flat extractor.
Dick, I thought the I could see a hold open pin on the extractor as well as a notch in the receiver.
Regards,
Mark
You're absolutely right, what looks like a carpet nub at first glance, actually IS the pin lug. My bad.
I have a rifle with unaltered metal in a converted stock. Doug Rainbow had a similar rifle so they exist. If you put that metal in an 1897 dated stock I guess you could create that rifle (except for the rod cuts in the butt)?
Good looking rifle!