Mystery Mauser?

[Patrick Chadwick]

The stock disc is '3006', which I believe is a rack number and not a caliber designation.

Agreed, any caliber designation would be on the barrelled system itself, nowhere else, so that it cannot be separated from the barrelled system.

Muzzle is very short, darn near flush with the front sight base from what I can see.

The only reason to cut off the last 1/2" or so off a barrel, would have been that the muzzle was KO - damaged or widened. If, for instance, the cause was a plugged muzzle, then the distortion will have spread further back than one can tell with the naked eye.

For that reason alone, I would never buy such a rifle. Ruined as a collection piece and probably also as a shooter.

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[Anzac15]

Pretty much thought that regarding the muzzle. There's too much weirdness about this thing..think I'll move on.

[Aragorn243]

Agreed, any caliber designation would be on the barrelled system itself, nowhere else, so that it cannot be separated from the barrelled system.

Not exactly true as my Peruvian 30-06 is so marked on the stock, not the barrelled action. It is an official conversion and has the added groove in the receiver for the longer cartridge.

[Potashminer]

I have what is left of a 1950 FN Mauser, apparently made for Belgium Armed Forces, no chambering marks on barrel or receiver, but it is , and was originally, chambered for 30-06, complete with a vertical notch at the rear of the front receiver ring.

[Anzac15]

I passed on it..too much 'ifs' attached to it.