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To me it looks like the rifle's bolt has been turned up to render the rifle "safe".

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I don't think so Nitro! It looks to me like a Styer Mannlicher 458 WM with it's flat spoon bolt handle that rides very close to the stock and only turns out at the bottom, just above the trigger! Could be wrong, but that's the way it looks to me.

The distance to the ele may be longer than it looks in the picture, but 40 YDS? come-on! when you consider the angle from muzzle to ele's forehead, at 40 yds that ele would be 40 feet tall! I'd say the distance is no more than 50 feet, and I think closer! In any event, if the ele is as close as I think, the first shot better kill, or turn him, because the shooter will not get another shot,with that bolt rifle, if it doesn't! Again could be wrong!

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