Rifle ID?

[Ak_Red]

Using the information I got from your posts, I have spent the morning on the internet.

I found this web page -http://www.geocities.com/fritz125541/Unmarked1916

Please take a look and let me know what you think.

Reasons it stuck out:

1) I have the thumb cutout (as seen in a picture above)
2) I also have the oval gas escape port.
3) Most every post here leans towards the 1893, and this website indicates some of these were converted 1893's

Now alot of what he says is "I think, and "I assume" so I am taking this with a grain of salt. But, the pictures match mine, including the rear sight.

I am further along in this than in the last day than I have been in the last two years. My thanks to you all.

David