Thanks, DonT.
The safety is the low mount 2-position type, and the bolt handle runs down and out like modern handles rather than out and down like a bent-down original mauser. The bolt handle has also been machined on the upper side to make it just pass the curved surface of the eyepiece of the low-mounted scope in the upper position as it is worked back and forth.
Perhaps the whole thing is an after-market, but the barrel (21 1/2 ") and receiver are both stainless steel. The barrel shows some slight signs that it once may have had the second step-down in diameter (it still has the first one about 1/2" out from the receiver) that has been machined away to leave a smooth taper from muzzle back to that first step-down.
By the way, what kind of book is it you have on the Swedish mauser? I'd like to get some more info on these superb rifles, now that I own two. My first sporter is shooting so sweet I am tempted to hunt some with it this year instead of my tried and true .270. It's going to take an act of God to pry me away from that old gun, though; she is one fine shooter. I got the Swede for my daughter, who may not be ready to hunt yet this fall, but now I'm really falling in love with it.
Now the stainless came along and it is so easy to handle and light and sweet-shooting, I think my daughter is going to fall in love, too! She is away at camp and I haven't introduced her to it yet. Can't wait! :-)
