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My experience of Mauser .22 rimfire rifles is much limited – I have owned a MAS 45 (Mauser 45 – posted at http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat....true#Post330223 ) for years and I was very lucky two days ago to get delivered a Mauser 410 B Sporter (post-1940 period, S/N 222397, I will present it at a later stage on the Forum) much similar to your own Mauser 410 B Sporter S/N 220453 (but the stock on mine has a later type Sporter stock) presented on your website at http://www.jagdwaffensammler.de/mauser-kleinkaliberbuechsen/mauser-mm-410b.html .

My comments will therefore mainly be based on Jon Speed’s “Mauser – Smallbores sporting, target & training rifles”:
- According to the photos you have posted and to your rifle’s serial number, your recently acquired model is Model 410, built from around 1931; cf. pages 34-36 of the above-mentioned book (version 1998).
- Models 410 B, which were built at a later stage, in the post-1940 era, are different beasts with different actions and magazine release systems; cf. pages 89-95 on Jon Speed’s book.
- That’s therefore normal that your new Model 410 is different from your Model 410 B as, apart from bearing the same “410” type number, both models differ a lot in conception.

Louis