Shadow 4's mauser

[Dan Cash]

Back in the 1950s through the mid 60s there were a lot of milsurpMausers and Mauser parts floating around for cheap. A number of outfits like Flaigs, Herters, Numrich et.al took said rifles and actions, rebarreled them to 06 and 270 primarily, put them in a sporting stock with a turned down bolt and a blue job and out the door as a reasonably high quality, low cost sporting rifle. The Gun Control Act of 1964 ended mail order firearms and pretty well snuffed the marketing of rifles such as these.