As the saying go when you least expect it you stumble across something cool. My parents have recently sold their house and I was over helping them clean out. A lot of interesting stuff, especially from my grandfather who was a world-class deep sea fisherman of old. Plenty of cool old rods and reels, harpoons, etc. One thing I was not planning on seeing was an old mauser sporting rifle. When I brought it up to my father he felt compelled to tell me the story: it was owned by a gentlemen who used to fish with my grandfather and was responsible for killing a great deal of animals for the Museum of Natural History in NYC. He had given it to my grandfather as a gift. Of course my dad can't remember his name and my grandfather is not alive to ask. It is a beautiful old rifle. It has a very classic look look, the old flag safety, dark wood stock, orange recoil pad, etc. It has double set triggers, mounts for some claw-type quick detach scope mounts and a most interesting front sight that spins around offering different color beads. Very nice workmanship and a beautiful rifle. According to my dad there was an old zeiss scope with it but that was lost a long time ago. It has a lot of interesting markings on it:

US 30-06
115794
Mauserwerk AG OBERNDORF A/N

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2 crowns with the letters
U and N under each

On bolt handle it says 5794 and has another 2 crowns under that with the letters B U underneath

So now I am of course committed to finding out more about it. Any ideas on where I could go to try and identify who this hunter/owner was? Again, according to my dad my grandfather said he was a famous world-class hunter and knowing my grandfather he was not prone to compliments/envy that were not deserved. Think Quint from Jaws.... He fished from the 30's through the 60's.

Interested to hear any advice. Thx!