Just as a general follow-up. The rifle had been restocked by a local gunsmith in cherry. The stock was full length with white cow horn tip cap, pistol grip cap and butt plate. Otherwise it was original military. The uncut barrell was 16 or 16.5 inches long. Someone told Dad it was a paratrooper carbine (who knows?).
No. Sadly I don't have picture or the gun itself. When I got out of service in 1970 he had traded it off. The only firearm he ever got rid of ... he sold it to the son of the gunsmith who did the stock work. I loved the thing (sorry action and all). And it started a life long love of Manlicher stocked rifle for me.
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