Gert,

Amazing! A totsally new approach to sighting a Mannlicher Schoenauer, and nobody else had ever thought of it before.

I can't tell, is the aperture threaded? If not, you might consider doing it. You could screw in a sight insert to use for precision work, like ammunition development, on the range.

I have only one M/S with a side safety, a late model one which was in .270 when I bought it, but wich I had rebored and rechambered to 9.3X62 by the late Jim Dubell. If I didn't already have a Model 36 Lyman for it, I would consider using your idea for a ghost ring sight.

There is an Austrian company which has taken over the manufacture of M/S parts, and they are selling a complete system for replacing the shotgun type safety, available with some late models,
mounted on the wrist of the stock. That might be preferable to the side safety, which at least on my M/S, makes a loud click when releasing it preparatory to fining a shot.

I don't know whether their parts kit can be used to convert an existing rifle to such an arrangement, or whether it can only be used as a replacement for one originally manufactured with the rifle. I have emailed the company asking whether such an alteration is possible. Unfortunately for non-German readers, the site is entirely in German.

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