Excellent work , Dorleac. Can not use a better platform than a .458 Mannlicher Schoenauer (Win Mag) since some of the greatest elephant hunters used the .458 Mannlicher Schoenauer rifles . Richard Harland used one to cull thousands of elephants in the Rhodesian corridors ...Terry Irwin used one in Tanzania, Selous Game park and Barry Dugworth use several .458 MS to hunt dangerous game. Their rationale being that this is the only dangerous game rifle that do not have a bottom metal that open up when firing under stressful hunting/culling circumstances.

As pointed out by a Mannlicher Shoenauer collector , the .458 Mannlicher Schoenauer with this stock from the 1958 era is an American version and can be altered as one wants since it is not really a original deigned Mannlicher stock...Mike , you did well to make this choice..excellent rifle enjoy it , it shoots extremely accurate for a big bore rifle...

Gert