ORIGINAL: will79
Rebel Hog, is your's a model 8 or 81? Mine looks exactly like yours but the reciever says model 81 woodsmaster. I bought it at a gun show for 300$. The reciever is pitted but all other metal looks good. Could someone have made a model 8/81 hy-brid?
The 8A was standard with a straight stock, the 8C had a pistol grip and high grade stock, etc. The grades were in the catalog but were not marked on the rifle.
The 81 differed from the 8 by having an additional firing pin spring to eliminate the possibility of firing out of battery due to firing pin creep.
Some writers say that the 8 and 81 have a detachable magzine, but I have never seen one in a standard rifle. I believe that may have been a special order for police or an after-market conversion.