You have to pull the trigger to get the bolt out. My buddy had the gun for 30 years and bought from original owner. I was asking him about it and he said the guy had a picture from 1939 where he had won a ham in a shooting contest. I wish I could get that picture, But he passed away years ago. He had bought it in 1931.
Geez, who knows. The rifle might have gone back to Winchester for a modified safety and other work at some point.
The stock throws me a bit because any M54 I have ever seen had a schnabel for end,and were trimmer than the standard M70 stock.....that is unless they changed stocks late in the M54 production.
Time to cruise through Rule!
Well I take it back again....there are pictures in Rule of that style stock on M54's. So there you go!