Bret GRAVELINE Graveline
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The action is a F/N Supreme, which is a commercial version of the german 98 mauser, the VZ24 is also a variant of the german 98 and is a true battlefield rifle, the notch cut in front of the bolt stop is to be found on all military 98's its a thumb groove, its purrpose is to aid in reloading the rifle, the 98 was intended to be reloaded with stripper clips, the VZ was manufactured by the czechoslovkia government and is considered to be one of the finer made 98's. back in the 50's the FN was the commercial action of choice for many custom builds, as well as many factory produced rifles, sako weatherby browning and montgomery wards to name a few, the wing safety has been replaced, the FN safety broke to the left, this one breaks to the right but one can see the notch cut on the left side of the bolt shroud for the factory original, as for the rest its hard to say by the pics, the barrel I would guess by the contour could be a apex, they were located I believe in or around the imperial Valley many years ago, the stock work is even harder, I knew a custom rifle make from southern California by the name of Fred Shaw, he was very found of the oak leaf and acorn carving in place of the checkering, also he was the man behind the checkering found on most weatherby rifles produced in the sixties into the 80's, beautiful rifle I own several mannlicher stocked rifles if a animal gets away it won't be because the rifles are not accurate,
