*** EDITED NOW WITH PHOTOS!!!***
Ok here is the story as I have been told it since I was a lil kid.
It was a dark and stormy ni.... just kidding.
My great Uncle was part of the D-day invasion of Normandy in WW2. As he was going through the French countryside he was picking up ummm "stuff" that was left laying about and shipping it home (Dad said his basement was full of backpacks flags helmets and all sorts of stuff).
He came along a french farmhouse and found a small .22 cal bolt action single shot rifle and decided that it needed to be sent home as well.
Long story short.... yea I know too late, my Dad and Uncle were given the rifle and they learned to shoot with it (in Baltimore no less). I learned how to shoot on it as a child as well. My Dad was down visiting his folks in GA and decided to surprise me and brought back the old .22 for me to have.
Yea a sweet guy I know.
Now here is the problem. There are NO markings on the rifle at all. I mean NONE!! zip zero nada blank gooseegg. The wood has been refinished as well and has no markings either. So all I have to go on is that my Dad thought that he remembers my Great Uncle saying it was orginally and English Rifle.
What I am hoping for is someone who can either say ... oh thats a .... or know of a site that has photos and info on some old bolt action rifles.
Ok here is the story as I have been told it since I was a lil kid.
It was a dark and stormy ni.... just kidding.
My great Uncle was part of the D-day invasion of Normandy in WW2. As he was going through the French countryside he was picking up ummm "stuff" that was left laying about and shipping it home (Dad said his basement was full of backpacks flags helmets and all sorts of stuff).
He came along a french farmhouse and found a small .22 cal bolt action single shot rifle and decided that it needed to be sent home as well.
Long story short.... yea I know too late, my Dad and Uncle were given the rifle and they learned to shoot with it (in Baltimore no less). I learned how to shoot on it as a child as well. My Dad was down visiting his folks in GA and decided to surprise me and brought back the old .22 for me to have.
Yea a sweet guy I know.
Now here is the problem. There are NO markings on the rifle at all. I mean NONE!! zip zero nada blank gooseegg. The wood has been refinished as well and has no markings either. So all I have to go on is that my Dad thought that he remembers my Great Uncle saying it was orginally and English Rifle.
What I am hoping for is someone who can either say ... oh thats a .... or know of a site that has photos and info on some old bolt action rifles.
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