I don't have a picture, but I'm trying to ID a rifle found in a store over the weekend out here in CT.
Without being able to break it down, the only discernible stamping was a Wz.29 on the left of the receiver which marks it as a Polish Mauser likely of 8mm Mauser - though the store listed it only as "unknown" for both model and round type.
This one has been sporterized, but many years ago. It has a thumbhole stock with recoil pad and caps.
The bolt is bent. If that aspect is original to the rifle, then it may have once been a cavalry variant.
The end of the bolt handle has been formed into a leaf. The buttstock had been carved with a deer in woodland scene. Detail quality is average but not poor.
The sights are not military. Not the large fin with the adjustable range slider. If memory serves, and it may be confused with an engraved lever action I checked out, it was a low setup with a fairly small bead up front. But again, this detail is fuzzy - I didn't focus on it so much as other parts.
The top of the receiver, which my research typically shows a small Polish eagle with Rodom and year of production has no such factory stamping. It looks to have been a bare round piece save for a very large eagle etched into it with the same average skill.
I would say this may have been someone's deer rifle, except that the stock does not look like it has been dragged through the woods and the rifle itself, while properly maintained, looks not to have been used frequently or recently. One thought was that this may have been the rifle of a Baby Boomer in their youth. Or perhaps the rifle of a Polish emigrant, since CT's New Britain is heavily Polish and heavily focused in the firearm industry.
While everything paints the sporter aspects clearly, the one part which leaves me surprised or curious is that there are no stampings on the top of the receiver.
Without being able to break it down, the only discernible stamping was a Wz.29 on the left of the receiver which marks it as a Polish Mauser likely of 8mm Mauser - though the store listed it only as "unknown" for both model and round type.
This one has been sporterized, but many years ago. It has a thumbhole stock with recoil pad and caps.
The bolt is bent. If that aspect is original to the rifle, then it may have once been a cavalry variant.
The end of the bolt handle has been formed into a leaf. The buttstock had been carved with a deer in woodland scene. Detail quality is average but not poor.
The sights are not military. Not the large fin with the adjustable range slider. If memory serves, and it may be confused with an engraved lever action I checked out, it was a low setup with a fairly small bead up front. But again, this detail is fuzzy - I didn't focus on it so much as other parts.
The top of the receiver, which my research typically shows a small Polish eagle with Rodom and year of production has no such factory stamping. It looks to have been a bare round piece save for a very large eagle etched into it with the same average skill.
I would say this may have been someone's deer rifle, except that the stock does not look like it has been dragged through the woods and the rifle itself, while properly maintained, looks not to have been used frequently or recently. One thought was that this may have been the rifle of a Baby Boomer in their youth. Or perhaps the rifle of a Polish emigrant, since CT's New Britain is heavily Polish and heavily focused in the firearm industry.
While everything paints the sporter aspects clearly, the one part which leaves me surprised or curious is that there are no stampings on the top of the receiver.
