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A small shank would indicate to me that the scope installation was factory original.

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This Suhl type scope mount certainly is not "Mauser factory original". Mauser always used their own rear ring design on a square bridge, with a sideways push-button release, when a scoped rifle was ordered.

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Now I am confused. On page 96 of Speed's Archive book (plate 170) there is an illustration of a factory installed scope mount on a round top action. On page 96 (plate 177) there is an illustration of a double square bridge rifle whose rear bridge was "milled down and fitted with a screw-on double-claw base." Plate 178 (page 97) illustrates another non-standard scope mount installed on a round top action.

I was left with the impression that the factory would install whatever mount the customer wanted.

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