The Mauser was the first practical version of this type of rifle with a manually operated slide
This 
type of bolt-action was mostly used in Russia, but one version called the... [DOC] [TLE] Savage Model 110 | Backwoods Home Magazine [PAR] Most Mauser type actions (and, like the Winchester Model 70, the Savage Model 
... a sliding switch on the tang, or the part of the rifle's action that mated with the 
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