Just out of interest:

These rifles were originally sold in the mid-fifties as BSA Hunter rifles, and were small action cartridges, .22 Hornet .222 REm. They had "BSA HUNTER" on the left receiver wall.

When they started making large actions for other cartridges about 1958 they changed the name and called it a BSA Royal and dropped the Hunter marking on the receiver - mid-size actions were called Viscount and long actions were Imperial.

All of these were Mauser actions.

The BSA Majestic is a simplified rifle in a push feed action that came afterwards, made from about 1960. They were a diffirent action, but looked much the same, and were in the same slim stocks. (People often get them mixed up - but a Majestic actually has the word Majestic written along the bolt body.)

They all were extremely popular in NZ and Aus, and sold used still command a premium even today, because they were excellent rifles, and used in a golden period of market hunting in both countries.

In the united States these rifles were marketed as the "Royal" line, and were all just called BSA Royals. Your rifle may be a later Royal small action, or it might be the earlier "hunter" model, but sold in the US without the Hunter marked on the action. Same rifle either way, just marketed differently.

In the UK, I am told, old BSA rifles have been forgotten. They live on in NZ, and have entered the hunting community consciousness to such an extent that BSA rifles of any description are often just called BSA Hunters, as if there were only one model.