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Time has come to rejuvenate Grand Dad's M. 1910!

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Blasphemer!

Surely you're joking, but...

The only 'modernization' ever done (crime committed) to Grand Dad's M1910 was when some fool (myself) decided, decades ago, that quick release sling swivels would be an improvement. Yes, I not only removed the screws (I should have them and the swivels somewhere), but drilled the part where the swivels 'swivel' oversize to accept the 'Uncle Mike's QDs and have since regretted having done so. It was that or bugger the threads to the stock. They could be tapped and reassembled with slightly oversized screws but should have been left all original.

The problem with adding an (ugh!) buttpad to an original 'prewar' MS would be not only damaging its originality, but in losing the ever - so - cool trapdoor buttplate and cleaning rod storage.





Granted, if I had an MS with a previously buggered stock I might appreciate the shock reduction to the shoulder that a pad would provide, but then again - I kind of like it when they bark back. My only handgun is a .44 Ruger Vaquero and I always feed it magnums.

To each their own, of course, but that's just my


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Rothhammer, you're such old fashioned!
We now live in the XXI century and in this New Age, Mannlicher Schoenauer rifles should now be entitled to have buttpads, sound suppressors, China-made rifle scopes and - why not, bipods; that's called modernity.
Time has come to rejuvenate Grand Dad's M. 1910!

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Rothhammer, you're such old fashioned!
We now live in the XXI century and in this New Age, Mannlicher Schoenauer rifles should now be entitled to have buttpads, sound suppressors, China-made rifle scopes and - why not, bipods; that's called modernity.
Time has come to rejuvenate Grand Dad's M. 1910!

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This one once belonged to a skinny blue eyed fella named Frank Sinatra.
Barrett Jackson sold it for over 30 grand in 2005.

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Anyone think that this is a factory threaded barrel?

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Anyone think that this is a factory threaded barrel?

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NOO!!!

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There's your answer.

I would trust Kuduae's knowledge and expertise on matters regarding European firearms and their history.

I wonder if the barrel threads were for a 'cutts' type compensator rather than a suppressor (silencer)? I'm just guessing, but here are a couple of examples from the 'net:


These are from a chat room thread on Gunbroker. The writer calls it "An integral muzzle brake at the muzzle, forged with the barrel..." of "a full stock Model 1952 Mannlicher- Schoenauer carbine in caliber .30-06, manufactured in 1953..." (I suspect it is soldered on rather than 'forged').

Here's a brake that has been added to a 98k Mauser, converted to 8X63:


Another odd speculation - could the previous owner have been using a blank firing adapter (BFA) such as these that were for Mausers?:


Thread protectors for same:




Cartridges loaded with wooden projectiles for above

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