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[browningautorifle]

Nice looking rifle for sure, couple things I wonder about though. Shouldn't the rear sight protector be other side around? Looks to have been turned completely around. Shouldn't it have a round cocking piece?

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[Nickjc]

That is me being a bonehead and installing it back backwards - dunno if it should have a round cocking piece - however it appears to be numbered the rifle....some of those stamps i have never seen before

[browningautorifle]

a round cocking piece - however it appears to be numbered the rifle....

No, just the very back piece on the bolt. They aren't numbered, just marked that they were examined. Those flat sided ones are a bit later and it may have been put on along the line. Some of these others here will be able to tell you for sure what the lineage of this one is. Nice rifle regardless, I always wanted one of the .22 models of the full sized rifles. They should shoot like a dream. I only had a #8 rifle and handled lots of #7 rifles...and of course FN with sub cal. These have never come my way.

[Buccaneer]

Shouldn't it have a round cocking piece?

Probably changed when it was converted from .303 to a .22 No 2 MkIV* rifle, it is of no real consequence.