Straight pull bolt I don't recognize

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Lower half is M-N obviously.
 
Mosin magazine and perhaps receiver but I do not recognize that bolt at all.

Any more pictures by chance ?

As far as I understand, the adopted military straight pull rifles are the Mannlicher series (M88 up to the M95), Schmidt Rubin and subsequent K31 series, and the Ross rifle variants.
 
Is this something in your hands or a random internet photo? Maybe a Mosin bolt that isn't fully or properly assembled? I say this only because that scope mount with all the screws sticking through the bottom reminds me of that guy who was welding a mount made from a piece of his lazy boy to the magazine. Video was posted maybe a month back. I had seriously hoped he would stop messing with guns.
 
Lots like a swell leading into a pistol grip down in the bottom left. That's not M/N lumber and the grain & color is wrong for Finnish Birch; so that takes an SA rifle likelihood away too.
Which means...nothing, I suppose. Merely an observation.
 
There is a discussion about this rifle on http://www.surplusrifleforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=172&t=90735

It supposedly is a custom Chinese competition or target rifle possibly built with some selective fire components on a modified receiver mated to a M N trigger and magazine.

Here's a few more pics:

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Some sort of one off. The original OP is not sure of the bolt origin - some speculated about Steyr, Ross, K31 or Lee Straight Pull bolts and possibly a GEW 88 bolt head, but it seems consensus was a highly modified M N bolt.

Be interesting to get a range report...
 
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The only thing that looks Mosin is the magazine and trigger. The bolt looks closer to a Mod 70 that has been modified.
 
Basically the bolt looks like another variation on the Mannlicher 1890 carbine action. The Mannlicher 1895 rifle and the Ross rifle are variations of the basic Mannlicher Model 1890 carbine.
Around 1900 there were a number of straight pull rifles offered to the military of various countries and to the sporting crowd.
An old back issue of the American Rifleman had pictures of about 6 or more different types of straight pull rifles.
Search “List of Straight Pull Rifles” for more general information.
 
Interesting. I can't see anyone bothering just for target rifle purposes, but maybe it was a military project with a view to quick reloading and accuracy for sniping purposes.

The sight & charger bridge and bolt release are obviously inspired by the Ross MkIII, even the left side receiver wall. The Chinese got quite a few Ross MkIIIs via Morris Cohen between the wars.

Perhaps the Chinese were impressed with the Ross and decided to try and combine the speed and accuracy with the M-N magazine and feed. It would make sense from their perspective.

Or was it a competition or biathlon rifle inspired by the modified Ross MkIIIs that the Soviets used in the 1950s in the running deer competitions? No provision for a scope so maybe it was more for competition than military use.

Unless of course the receiver profile is the same as the hex on the early M-Ns, in which case they could have used the Soviet PE mount bases?

The real question is, how the heck did it ever get out of China!?
 
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