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I uploaded the picture to my desk-top, than enlarged it as big as I could, using the Ctrl and + keys. There is no schnabble that I can see. It has a rounded-up forend tip.
I did the same. Sorry DarylS, but apparently you have not seen many original Mauser, Oberndorf type B rifles. They did not have a pronounced “Schnabel” foreend. There is just a very slight flare at the tip. The tips are cut off with a curved cut, straight in plan but curved up-down. Looking at the enlarged photo as you did, I see a typical post-1912 to 1945 Mauser B stock with the uncheckered foreend and the rounded, seen from the side, tip. Here are pics of four B Mausers, all with their original factory stocks.


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