| HuntingSchneider |
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| 06/10/11 11:52 PM |
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Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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Just picked up another new toy.
This is a M1910. 9.5x57.
Sort of a takedown. There is a wedge in the fore end, but an action screw at the rear of the action.
Bore has been given just a quick scrub, but looks pretty darn good.
I'm waiting on my permit to acquire and really looking forward to taking it out for a shot.
NitroX
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| 07/10/11 04:41 PM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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What's your latest .375 designed for? Sambar? Pigs?
Any plans for it, eg restocking? Is that an original stock, or a replacement one pre-purchase?
| HuntingSchneider |
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| 07/10/11 07:47 PM |
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Looks to be the original stock. I'll know more when I get it home and get the wood off.
General use intended. Probably shoot more rabbits with it then anything else.
But knowing me, I'll be broke again shortly and need to sell. That seems to be the way it goes.
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| kamilaroi |
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| 07/10/11 08:17 PM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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The metalwork appears to have been buffed and refinished a long time ago as the original if factory issue had more of a grey appearance. The factory stock (for the tropics) had a varnish style finish that may have been removed and another substituted. Checkering appears original. From the condition of the buttplate scews cf the buttplate there may have been an exchange of parts.
| DarylS |
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| 08/10/11 03:40 AM |
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The closeup of the action makes me think the whole rife was covered with rust at one time, then brushed off with steel wool and oil, or a very soft bronze wheel and oil as used for rust bluing. Brownell's sells those wheels. Quite amazing actually.
| 9.3x57 |
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| 08/10/11 06:29 AM |
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Really neat old gun
Didn't Mannlicher change the stamp from an OE to the O-umlaut { ö } sometime in production?
| HuntingSchneider |
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| 08/10/11 04:54 PM |
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Quote:
Really neat old gun
Didn't Mannlicher change the stamp from an OE to the O-umlaut { ö } sometime in production?
That would help to date it.
Does anyone know when that was?
I know that it makes no real difference, but would be very interesting to know.
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| kamilaroi |
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| 08/10/11 05:32 PM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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I believe the piece is dated pre 1925 as the laws changed to reflect origin with a stamp "not english make" plus the usual German (and English proofs if retailed in UK). Otherwise if you look at the receiver it contains 2 number sets, one being the serial number and the other a 2 digit series for year of origin. Wirnsberger may have more to say.
| Kiwi_bloke |
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| 20/10/11 07:26 PM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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I have a nearly identical one. Take the pin out of the foreend wood by pressing the detent behind the button. Note which side it entered from. Put a soft lead bullet tip into the hole in the mag, there will be 2 of them, but only one will be spring-loaded. Push the spring down and swing the mag plate to one side and lift it out and remove it. Then switch the lever beside the trigger guard 180 degrees, (to the left, from memory). Put a small amount of thumb pressure on the barrel to lift it from the foreend and also, you might put some pressure on the inside of the mag to push it away from the stock. Make sure it can fall on something soft like a towel if should pop out. Go steady the first time unless you have a spare stock! There could be rust and etc. holding it tight.
This is the take-down model and the entire action should come out of the stock. The rear of the action has a small notch, by the way.
If you do this, you'll find those numbers, something like 346.28, which would be the 346th firearm proofed in Vienna in 1928. That's the proof-office number, not to be confused with the serial number which is visible without moving the stock, for instance, on your bolt-handle.
There's a detailed article on this Mannlicher take-down 1910 model in 9,5x57 M.-Sch. in the latest issue of New Zealand Guns and Hunting magazine. Issue #126, Sept/Oct 2011. Modesty prevents me from mentioning who wrote it.
| HuntingSchneider |
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| 21/10/11 03:23 AM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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Thanks for the info, but it turns out it was not a takedown as such.
There was no lever near the trigger guard. The wedge was the type with the spring. But the rear action screw went all the way through and into the bottom of the action.
The tang did hook under a secured section screwed to the stop.
Doesn't matter any more now. What I though would eventually happen did happen , but a lot sooner then I had hoped. I needed the money and sold it.
Pity, nice old thing.
| lancaster |
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| 21/10/11 05:41 AM |
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There's a detailed article on this Mannlicher take-down 1910 model in 9,5x57 M.-Sch. in the latest issue of New Zealand Guns and Hunting magazine. Issue #126, Sept/Oct 2011. Modesty prevents me from mentioning who wrote it.
because you probably know the author better than anyone else would it be possible to make the article available on nitroexpress when the nov/dec issue come out?
| Kiwi_bloke |
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| 24/10/11 07:24 PM |
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I'll ask the editor what can be done.
| Brigalow |
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| 20/11/11 04:03 PM |
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Re: Mannlicher M1910. 9.5x57. Takedown?
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I am now the owner of this rifle. I have taken the rifle apart and there doesn't seem to be a sequence of numbers on the underside of the barrel. There is the number 30 stamped by itself, C9.5 and +05 on the action and -05 on the barrel plus a few other stamps presumably proof stamps? The stock has the serial number stamped into it. What was in the butt? Any info would be greatly appreciated. The reason I bought it was because a mate's father had one when we were kids and we used to marvel at the recoil. I have always wanted one.