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Scoped Bolt-Action Rifle on a White Table

Photograph of a bolt action rifle with a dark walnut stock and a matte black telescopic scope lying horizontally on a large white painted wooden dining table

What This Image Shows​

A bolt-action rifle with a dark walnut stock, blued steel barrel and receiver, and a matte black telescopic scope with a gold accent ring lies horizontally on a large white-painted wooden dining table. A white dining chair stands behind it against vertical wainscoting, with woven bamboo blinds at the window. The light is soft daylight from the left. No text or branding is legible.

The domestic setting is what distinguishes this from the studio photograph in the same sub-cluster: this is somebody's rifle in somebody's house, photographed the way a private sale listing or an insurance record is photographed.

It is a reference image for the configuration described in the official account — a Mauser-pattern bolt-action with a mounted scope — rather than a photograph of the weapon in the case. That caution matters in this thread, because images of scoped rifles have circulated as the recovered weapon that researchers have traced to other sources entirely. See Mauser .30-06 Rifle and Gun Discovery Sequence.

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