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60 grains of IMR 4198 and a 400 grain cast bullet. I passed on loading the 500 grain jacketed that I have.

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From what I can find online the estimate seems to be less than 100.

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Then you have a VERY rare bird indeed Casper!

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Looking at the various different forum responses to posts about the .458 MS, all of the photos I see and some of the info on the Mannlicher Schoenauer Collectors page says that the .458 MS were all made with swept back bolt handle and the Monte Carlo stock. Mine has a straight bolt handle and a normal, (thank god), stock. I wonder if it was a custom ordered rifle.

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Also Stoeger, 1958:





Is your receiver stamped Mod. NO ?

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Says "Model MC". I see the above have straight handles but the stock is the Monte Carlo style.

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During that time, Model MC should indicate the Monte Carlo Stock. Model MCA would have a slightly lower comb, those who desired the
traditional stock of previous models were advised to order Model 1952 GK:


Stoeger catalog, 1960


Model GK



Stoeger, 1957


Stoeger, 1962


Stoeger, 1962


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There was also 'model NO' which Kuduae (who knows much more than I) has suggested may have been European custom orders.

One hard, fast, rule regarding MS, however, particularly of that period, was that there were few, if any, hard, fast, rules (my, that was a lot of commas).

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