Sedgley ground the numbers off low number Springfield so he could sell them, I think most people viewed low number Springfield's back then the the way most people today view Damascus barrel shotguns. Considering the cost of genuine commercial actions, I have a hard time believing he would just willy-nilly grind the Mauser Banner off.
I looked at the rifle on Guns International, and unless I'm just missing something, I don't see anything about that action that indicates it's commercial.
Tim
What are your thoughts on the clearly visible commercial proof marks?
Well, I went back and looked, and all I saw were the Sedgley marks, a number on the safety, and a hint of something peeking from behind the scope mount. If there's clearly visible proof marks on that rifle, please tell me where they're at.
Edit - if you're talking about the rifle in the original topic of discussion, and not the rifle in your quote that I was referring to, Mauser was known to repurpose leftover military contract actions for commercial purposes, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility, that that rifle originally had a foreign military crest. But from the lousy picture, that rifle still looks poorly scrubbed to me. Without a good close up I don't think there's any way to say one way or the other.
Let's be clear, I am nothing resembling an authority on Mauser actions. The more I learn, the more I realize how much more there is to learn, and it just seems to get more confusing.
Tim
