I’ll give it a go. The thing that first caught my eye, beside the stock, was the finger leaver. All of the model 1894/94 finger levers I’ve seen on pistol griped rifles seem to have a gentler bend on the lower band of the finger loop. The Model 64 tends to have what almost looks like a kink instead. It’s probably made necessary by the more critical shape of the pistol grip. If photo #9 was in B&W I would think it was taken out of Renneberg’s’ book on page 221.
That metal style buttplate was a standard one on the 64 but not the 94. The only photo in his book that I find with those three features on a 94 is page 66 and that rifle is described as a clandestinely built rifle put together by employees of the plant.
The style hammer is out of the serial range by about 31,000 when Renneberg states that “production and installation ceased rather abruptly with the introduction of the post war “flat-band” model at serials around 1,350,000. In 1945, the year of the hammer change, there were only 8,870 (Red Book) Model 94 produced. The following year, when # 1,381,654 was built there were 58,934 (Red Book) manufactured. The question becomes, what is abrupt?
My conclusion is it is either a 94 that had a 64 stock and leaver put on aftermarket or because of the addition of the hammer it was another employee put together as on page 66 of B. R.’s book.
Gene
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