I'm not too sure about the history of this rifle. I know that when I first saw it, it already had the added butt pad and I'm guessing that was when the rear portion of the stock had an extra coat of a darker oil applied. It also had a pre-patent single lever G&H sidemount attached but the rings weren't centered over the bore. It looks like the caliber markings were restamped at some point, and the serial number on barrel and receiver were marked with different tools. The serial number should place the manufacture date during 1914. The tang appears to be shorter than the original inletting; resulting in a patch aft of the tang in the stock. The safety had been converted to a two position side lever. Bore is .311; grooves .316. Freddy Brunner replaced the G&H mount (base was cracked where they attached to the receiver) with claw mounts. He cut a channel through the mounts so that you can still see the sights. Standard 8mm Norma shell will not chamber without some force resulting in marking the casing neck, but not the case shoulder or the bullet. Anyone happen to know where a guy can find a couple of boxes of 8mm J bore ammo?