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					Originally Posted by Oliver Pinchot
					
				 
				Very nice example.  
Difficult to say for certain from the photos, but it appears the barrel, and necessarily the stock, have been shortened a good bit from their original length-- a not uncommon treatment in the Balkans. 
			
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 Rick did mention the shortening of both components in his initial post, and it looks obvious from his measurements and the images themselves.