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Was in the right place at the right time this morning at lgs. A guy walked in with a couple of brnos and another strange looking rifle that grabbed my attention. Had a look at it and it seemed pretty good nick for how old it is turns out its a mauser ms420 solidly built heavy barrel and still has original . Really odd looking bolt never seen one before

A few odd things about this one, the fore end on the stock is different to what ive seen else where also the other ones ive seen have finger grooves in stock. Theres also no rear sight or place for it but it does have an aperature rear sight that can be fitted. Theres also a place for a safety but it looks like theres never been one fitted..

After playing around a bit more with this rifle theres a couple of quirky things about it. I felt that it should shoot a little bit better than it did so I took it out of the stock. The first thing I noticed it doesnt appear to have any machining to allow fitment of a safety only the safety markings are visible on the reciever. The second thing is the front sling swivel is actually attached ro a stud on the barrel and also fastens to the stock. It was tight when i took it apart. I left the sling swivel loose when I reassembled it and it improved the accuracy of the rifle.