inherited this rifle along with several other Czech guns from my FIL... many years ago... I always assumed this was a BRNO... well... I've gotten old enough I'm trying to start cutting back on a few guns... I started cleaning this rifle up for sale, & I couldn't find BRNO or CZ on it anywhere...
can anyone tell me what I have here???
It has what looks like CAI STALB V1 on the barrel half way down on the bottom in really small print ( assuming this is an old import stamp for Century Arms & the 1 is an incomplete stamp for a "T" & should be VT )
Has in the same very small print under serial 12081 on the side of the receiver SVAZARM Y
This rifle has 3 leaf sights for 25, 50, and 100 meters... the stock has a straighter stock... not the curved down butt style, and has a Schnabel fore end, it has the look of a finer old milsurp oiled stock, & doesn't appear to have been reshaped, if the rifle was customized at some point, the stock appears original. The rifles is magazine fed... the receiver is machined / grooved for a scope mount and has a squiggling texture machined on the receiver between the scope grooves, looks to reduce glare if using the leaf sights... with the tight fitting quality feel bolt, I'm thinking this is 60’s vintage custom, but that is a guess
It came to me with a Kollmorgen bear cub 2 3/4 X scope with engraved rings... which it still wears
Any thoughts??? Could this be an old military trainer turned sporting rifle???
BTW... the front mounting screw goes into a block dovetailed on the front bottom of the receiver that dovetail block easily slides side to side ( maybe to keep stresses down / centered in the stock channel )
it's the top rifle in this rack...
any idea who the maker is???
Thanks
