Compared with MOST rifles today, rifles without a plastic stocks are pretty much obsolete, if you are looking for the most advanced, of course. How many sniper rifes today have walnut stocks - none.

Yes - newer match rifles, sniper and modern, US made and many other sporting rifles have low scopes for a HARD cheek weld on their fairly high combs - the old rifles did not - oh well. Do the modern rifles make better hunting rifles because of that - depends on what you demand from a hunting rifle, I'd guess.

I rather like the 'old' rifles style of stock & I shoot them well. Hunting rifles are not match rifles nor are they sniper rifles - by use or by their design.

To be able to use just such an older designed rifle when hunting, produces much of the pleasure of hunting in itself and many people feel the same. They feel this way to the point where they also hunt with iron sighted rifles, much drop in the stock and of designs and manufacture even older than the Mausers, perhaps like this one. If they want more range from their older designed rifle, they add a 'older' style scope, which means high mounts designed primarily to clear a bent, not cut and re-welded bolt.

No scope, and only a chin-weld. Is it a modern sniper rifle? - hell no, but it brings a smile to your face when you carry it hunting, as-will the Mauser at the top of this thread - but only if you enjoy them, of course.

This one is fun to hunt with - lots of drop - oh well, that's how they were made. It is not a design flaw, even if it just so happens to have more drop than a modern sniper rifle. It isn't a sniper rifle - it's a hunting rifle.