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Old May 23, 2011, 06:03 PM   #2
Jim Watson
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The (crown) B, U, and G are the German Imperial "BUG" proof marks seen before the Nazi designations came into use in the late 1930s. No doubt some German's nice target rifle, confiscated by Americans during the Occupation.

Mauser made a number of different models of .22 sporting and target rifles and I don't know enough to say which this is. The "diopter" peep sight is a good catch, most of these were lost because it was European practice to store the gun with the sights removed, and the GIs confiscating them did not track down the sights.
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