Many of the rifles and carbines you are likely to encounter today have had scopes mounted on them which, from my viewpoint, ruins the handling qualities of the little guns. My friend Dick has a 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer that is so smooth that all he has to do to close the action is to tip the rifle forward with the bolt open on an empty magazine and chamber and let gravity do the work for him. Typical of prewar guns, they exhibit superb workmanship and fine hand fitting. The magazines could be removed from the guns by using the tip of a bullet to press the button located on the forward portion of the floorplate and rotating it 90 degrees clockwise, then pulling down to allow removal of the entire assembly. The rotor in the Mannlicher-Schoenauer also prevented bullet tip deformation from recoil of cartridges loaded in the magazine. The magazines, especially the ones manufactured prior to 1924, required a lot of expensive machine work and for those familiar with older guns, bring to mind the rotary magazines of Savage 99 rifles. The magazine was designed specifically for the 6.5 x 54mm MS cartridge, which made it difficult to chamber the guns for any other caliber. It could be emptied by pressing a button, located on the right action rail, allowing the cartridges to be forced out by the magazine rotor into the firer’s hand. The magazine was made of steel and could be loaded via a stripper clip or one round at a time. The internal, rotary magazine was designed by Otto Schoenauer, who was employed at the Steyr Armory as its general manager. One of the most unique features of the weapon was its rotary magazine. It was the last project of Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher, one of the most prolific gun designers of all time. The first sporting rifles and Greek service weapons had round bolt knobs while the Model 1903 and subsequent commercial rifles used the classic, butterknife bolt handle. Although it was adopted by the Greek military as their standard issue service rifle in 1903, the Mannlicher-Schoenauer saw its greatest success as a hunting rifle. The Mannlicher-Schoenauer was produced by Oesterreichische Waffenfabrik Gesellschaft Steyr beginning in the year 1900 as the Model of 1900 in sporting rifle and carbine versions.
275 Rigby, mostly because he couldn’t find ammunition of consistently good quality. He eventually gave up his Mannlicher-Schoenauer when shooting elephants for a. He once had an elephant’s skull sawed in half so he could study it in detail and understood just where he had to place his shots. Bell stated that it killed like lightning but he was one of the greatest shots of all time and made sure he understood the anatomy of his game and what it took to bring them down. Bell who sang its praises, there were also quite a few tales of inadequate performance, which sometimes led to some rather unpleasant results. While there were many hunters in Africa such as W.D.M.
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That assumes, of course, that the person using it knew how to shoot. The 6.5 x 54mm MS cartridges they were chambered for were usually loaded with a 160 grain roundnose bullet that, by virtue of its high sectional density, penetrated deep into any game shot with it and made them lethal beyond all expectation. Their petite dimensions made them very light and easy to carry and endeared them to all who used them. The rifles, either factory or custom-made, generally have very elegant lines and are some of the fastest handling guns to be found anywhere. Several of the high-end British gunmakers such as Gibbs and Fraser used them to make custom rifles for their clients. It shows obvious signs of having been refinished but it has not been altered from its factory configuration as far as I can tell. I have a reproduction 1932 Stoeger catalog that lists the barrel length of 6.5mm Mannlicher-Schoenauers as 18” but the barrel on the first 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer I bought over a decade ago has a 17.7” barrel. In my somewhat limited experience though, the 18” barrel length of the standard carbine seems to be something of an approximate measure. Most often seen in carbine form with an 18” barrel, double set trigger and stocked to the muzzle, it can occasionally be encountered in rifle form with a single trigger and sometimes in takedown form. A very popular rifle used by hunters of the early 20th century was the 6.5 x 54mm Model 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer.
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