This rifle is about six hundred numbers from Townsend Whelen's rifle.

With a mint bore chances are good that it was never a military rifle.

Interesting work but unknown to me. Had a Mannlicher trap buttplate originally but now replaced. I have a MS buttplate but I think it was run over by a truck.

Thank goodness it's one of those low-numbered dangerous rifles that dealers like to get rid of grin

MP Sadly Deceased as of 2/17/2014