Can anyone identify this rifle?

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Interesting picture. I was given this at a recent family reunion from an older relative. The lady is my grandma, and the little guy is my Dad. For reference, I am now 34 years old and the picture was taken in 1945. Unfortunately, both have passed.

Can anyone identify the rifle?

Anyone care to bet if she knew how to use it?

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Looks like a Springfield, or maybe one of those "drill team" copies of same they used to make.

Tim
 
It looks like a toy gun that I had when I was a wee bit of a lad. It was a bolt action that when worked had a wooden shell attached to the front of the bolt. When you pulled the trigger it would click. It was made to look somewhat like a 1903.
 
It is just me, or are there no sights?
Would they have put a stacking swivel, on a toy.
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Looks like a drill rifle. No front sight and the hanguard is a bit too high. Stock looks flat too.
 
I agree with the toy as I am of the generation and period where this
type was quite common, all accute observations such as no front sight
ect. are good many of these did have a blade and many were equipped
with a sling like the one shown.
 
It looks to me like a "drill team" rifle. It is / was made by an outfit in Paris, Ky.
I had several of them as a kid. And if I remember correctly, the company sponsored drill team competitions etc.
Of course, that was when the world was a bit saner and simpler and you could take your toy gun to school without being expelled and branded as crazy for life!
 
dang.. that's a lot cooler than the '03 toy my brother had when we were kids... :)

Don't think it could be an A4 though -- it has that sight-protecting hump in the rear handguard area.


-K
 
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