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As are a few other guns I have salvaged from the scrap heap. Some of my worst ones are destined for rebuilds into classic sporters like that once I get my hands on a 6.5x53R reamer. But they will outclass and outstyle almost anything out there. They are like classic Jaguars or Bentleys are to cars. The ones done by professionals are some of the best sporting guns ever made. And no gunsmith would have butchered these so badly. I was able to find military markings on all of them. Likely built in Germany according to a couple of mannlicher collectors the rifle was made about 100 years ago, certainly with a surplus Roumanian contract receiver.
GREEK 6.5 X54 MANNLICHER SCHOENAUER RIFLE FULL
Mine is a very nice carbine, with horn grip cap and butt plate, full rib, light weight barrel profile, engraved receiver and folding leaf sights, butter knife bolt handle. This was the first true small bore used to hunt Africa, the round was used to kil more elephants than all others combined. Yes, I shoot the 6.5x53r, the round first appeared the in 1892 + 1893 Roumanian Mannlicher, which was the basis for the 1903 both are split bridges the 1903 has the rotary magazine and the 1892/3 use a clip with the fixed mag below the receiver.īe aware that bubba is not always what happened to these rifles, the contract was ended on these 1892/3 rifles any the surplus actions were sold to gunmakers all over Europe, including fine English makers. Shorter, lighter rounds have that much more freebore to effect the accuracy. Also, most original barrels have longer throats to handle the longer bullets. They will still work fine, but you lose BC, and don't gain enough speed to make the trade-off worth it. You just can't cram enough powder into the case to really take advantage of lighter bullets. They have a tight enough twist to stabilize the longer bullets, and with the velocities that this cartridge can acheive, they will be the most effective on medium game. And if you are using an original barrel, I would stick with the 140-160 grain bullets. If you do your part, these guns will kill anything in North America. 303 British cases much cheaper than I can find the rimless cases. Which is fine, considering that I can make the brass out of. So at this point, most of my shooting is done with the rimmed versions. It still shoots, but it is going to take some serious rehabing to turn it back into anything worth playing with. I have one Greek model 1903/14 in 6.5x54 that was also attacked by Bubba, who attempted to turn it into a sporter. I have half a dozen of the 6.5x53R rifles ranging from spare parts guns that were attacked by Bubba, to full blown milsurps in good shape. The load data and ballistics are basically identical. See Ken Water's excellent article on it in his Pet Loads book. The Norma box in the pic is new brass also brought to me by my friend.256 Mannlicher was actually originally the rimmed version. Here is the plate we were shooting at.the small dot out in the water to the left of the point along the right shoreline: This was mostly for slaps and giggles since I can't see iron sights worth a schmidt any more, but I did manage to get the plate wet a little bit. I also tried a few shots with the scope removed. After that, three different shooters rang the plate pretty much at will off a sand bag rest. Shooting at an 8" plate at about 165 yds, we were able to walk the shots into it by aiming at the upper right side. I had bore sighted the post reticle a few days ago and it was remarkably close. My brass, dies, and bullets coming from Graf won't be here until next week, but he just happened to show up with a box of FN surplus FMJ ammo with a 1950 date on it. The information he shared with me made me even more impressed with this M-S.if that was possible. He lived in Germany for many years and immersed himself in their hunting and firearms culture, so was able to share quite a bit of info on my new Steyr. Met up with some friends yesterday, one of whom has a great deal of knowledge about German/Austrian firearms.