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It's the rimless variety. As I understand it, originally all the magnum length actions from Mauser came with the slant magazines, but not all had the bolt face for the rimmed .400/.350 or .350 #2 cartridges. Later actions came without the stepped receiver ring and the slant magazine.

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I think you are wrong.
Only the magnum Mauser action for the rimmed .350 came with slanted magazine, all other Mauser actions for .350 Rigby Magnum rimless and for such cartridges as the .404 Jeffery or .280 Ross are fitted with standard deep magazine (not slanted).
I have at the rack original .350 Rigby and 404 Jeffery rifles, all built at Oberndorf in the thirties and to have made many big game rifles on Original Mauser magnum action the only ones we have ever encountered with slanted magazine were for .350 magnum rimmed round.

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