How do you jump off a building, with that barrel stuffed down your pant leg (ha!) ... then, reassemble the rifle and wrap it up, in ‘the woods’??? (referring to the rifle in pic, at link)
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You don’t jump off a building with any rifle barrel stuffed in your pant leg. Broken down and in a backpack, perhaps. I don’t know squat about the Mauser in question, but I know that other rifles of that vintage didn’t generally “break down” easily. Certainly, you weren’t going to easily break an M1 Garand down to a very short size.
Now, a more modern gun like the AR-15, especially with a shorter (but legal) barrel, easily breaks down into 2 pieces and you can fit them into a large backpack with ease.
Did we actually get proof that this Mauser they found was, in fact, the weapon used? An AR can do 200 yards all day long also.