Can you help me identify this rifle

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takhtakaal,
i was never "concerned", thank you. I just wanted to id it, since it belonged to my deceased father. On the flip side, if you ever need medical advice send a msg, and I'll be happy to give you similar advice.
Thanks again
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You asked about a safety, which wouldn't have much necessarily to do with IDing a bolt-action rifle -- many have them in one form or another. I intuited concern, and I wasn't being condescending. My apologies for having ruffled your feathers.
 
If it was professionally sporterized as this one seems to have been the new chambering should be marked on the barrel

I had two of these thirty years ago
One was original and one was professionally reworked with a cut and recrowned barrel, beautiful bluing and a great Reinhardt Fajer stock
The only problem with it was that the trigger only set the hammer you had to work the bolt to get it to fire

Dad came down to see how my new rifle shot and I showed him how smart I was to figure out that you could pull the trigger, keep the gun on target and thumb up the bolt to make it shoot

That was the first time I can remember Dad calling me a dumbass
Don't know what he did with the gun but I never saw it again
 
when I saw the trigger guard & magazine, I thought Arisaka on the spot; the bolt handle was rough at the end, so it had to be originally a part of the gun- a well made stock and scope mount and the gunsmith didn't do any work to round off the bolt handle? gah! Someone was lazy!

The second thought was "mauser" however, most mausers have a safety on the side, or the big block at the end of the bolt with the flag safety. This however looked to have a round knob, another feature on latter-developed arisakas. Earlier (Type 1, Type 30, Type 35) arisakas have a hook

The missing tang made it tricky because the Arisaka strong tang is one of the more uncommon features the Arisaka utilizes. To compensate for the softer woods they find in Japan, they used the steel tangs to strengthen that grip where the wood can easily break.

The bolt seals the deal; big one-piece monster with three lugs and a giant extractor claw and the knob at the end :D
 
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