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I wonder who made this rifle, the top of the barrel is marked "Otto Winter Bunziat" the last part is hard to read.
I need to make a new bolt handle and I am wondering if it had a straight or bend bolt handle.
To my eye resembles Belgian Warrant rifle in Flobert possible calibers: .22 rimfire or 9mm Flobert and such weaker powered rimfires. But usually they have an external cocking hammer?
The action looks like the Mauser 71 styled actions used on some target and hunting rifles. I would suspect the handle was straight, but it could have been turned or even turned and flattened.
Is the trigger mechanism missing its rear cocking trigger?
Was the bolt handle originally dovetailed in? Or was that a period repair? If the handle was mechanically attached, that would facilitate installing a replacement.
It looks like a casting, the handle was part of the bolt before someone broke it off.
I drilled and threaded it for 1/4-20 and made a pocket to fit the straight bolt handle.
I am making up a 5/8" ball on a 3/8" straight post, about 1.250" long, that should do it, and Loctite it in.
As long as it looks somewhat presentable.