Steyr M.95 "S-Gewehr" with a front sight protector

When I said police this includes Sicherheitswache. It was just the Police of Vienna. I currently cannot think of a SW marked rifle.
Military interwar had a different front sight hood, made of brass.
 
Absolut said:
When I said police this includes Sicherheitswache. It was just the Police of Vienna. I currently cannot think of a SW marked rifle.
Military interwar had a different front sight hood, made of brass.
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I apologize, I misread your earlier post. You are right on the Gendarmerie post war. They would have refinished the rifle.

Regarding the sight hood, I took a better look at the photos and the 1920's sight hoods were of different pattern altogether. Have you ever seen one like that in natura?
 

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Well, there you go for another pattern that is somewhat clamped to the front sight blade. This is not the version I was referring to, I cannot recall ever having seen one of these in person. IMHO must had been a trial. Knowing how tall the blades of the S caliber Stutzenkarabiner was, this almost looks too low to be for a 8x56R rifle. Given your date I'd assume these images show 8x50R rifles. Maybe the caliber conversion made these obsolete, and that is why they "disappeared".
 
The photos definitely show the 8x50R rifles. One of them is marked "Manöver 1928, 29. VIII. - 8. IX." But these sight hoods must have been more than just trial pieces. They can be recognized in several photos from the 1920's in my collection, and they are photos from different sources.

Regarding the pattern you referred to, that came with the M.95/30 conversion and was made in brass and in steel. The steel version must have been more common since I do possess (and have seen) several rifles with the steel ones but only one lonely brass piece. Most of them are marked either with the Republic or the Bundesstaat eagle stamp, but some are unmarked.
 
The presented photos are with Stutzen M95 so question is the type of sight hoods but here it looks like secured with 2 screws.
 
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Yes, they are Stutzenkarabiners. The question related to the sight hoods themselves, without any regard for the rifles they were on. But hoods of this type are not known to exist today and might have all been liquidated already in the 1930's during the transformation of M.95 rifles to the M.95/30 rifles.
 
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