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Gruff,

Compare the photo of the Schuler rifle with that of your action. The bolt knob is nowhere near the bottom metal in the Schuler rifle, and even allowing for the fact that your bolt handle is longer, the proportions of the stock are distorted, which is clearly not the case with your action.

In the Schuler rifle the barrelled action appears to have been perched on top of the stock and the trigger guard added below as an afterthought.

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Just to add another for comparison. The 404 below is an opened up original Type A Oberndorf (was 10.75x68) still in original factory stock and able to use 3+1. Does have a standard Timney trigger (unlike Von Gruffs extended one).

I concur with Von Gruff that while the Schulers appear to have had the bottom metal dropped, it is not so much different than those of original Mausers.