I am finding it really tough to get back to the here and now when somebody talks to me or the phone rings.Ĭhambers the 6.5 mm x 54 round characteristic Mannlicher butter-knife bolt handle and full-length stock 17.75' barrel (omitting the chamber almost 20' from muzzle to bolt face) fixed primary leaf iron sight with flip-up 300 meter leaf behind it removable five-shot rotary magazine double (set) trigger with screw adjustment to fine-tune release tension horn grip cap and butt plate the steel, wood and scope are in extremely nice condition, with only a few dings in the wood and minimal area thinning of the blue observed quick-detachable scope mount with Kahles Mignon 2.5X scope (first manufactured 1908 and continued, I believe, through the 1930s) the gun has a serial number near 21000 and the scope mount is numbered to the gun. I stumbled across Theodore Roosevelt at one point he admired my gun, and I said nice things about his 1895 Winchester. I have been on a fantasy safari in the East Africa of a hundred years ago for the last couple of days. The gun was clearly more memorable than the films. I think George Montgomery had one in Watusi, and Stewart Granger may have had one in Harry Black. I would recognize it in the movies I saw at Saturday matinees before 1960. I remember being excited when I got a two-inch blue plastic replica of one out of a box of Wheaties (or whatever) in the mid-1950s, so I had to have known about it before then. I can't remember the very first time I heard of this model. I brought home a Model 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer carbine. This week I fulfilled a dream that first crossed my mind when I was 9 or 10 years old. EDITED TO NOTE: New pics added in post 28 below.

9x56 mannlicher schoenauer rifle