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Nakihunter
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Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57
09/06/08 03:59 PM

I bought this rifle from a guy in his 70's. He has had it for about 6 years & never shot it. He got it from a family estate - the original owner came from a Tea Plantation in Ceylon & South India (I started my career in Tea Plantations in Assam & South India!).

The rifle would have been used as a personal sporting gun. They did not hunt meat for the workers in the plantations. The British planter usually had one shotgun & one rifle. The rifle would have been used for wild boar, sambar, chital etc. or the odd leopard. Although every planter had a gun & / or rifle, not all of them were keen sportsmen. Most were just social hunters & the guns did not see too much use. This rifle has very good metal & bore. The bolt spring is like new as the rifle was stored with the bolt in the action & in taken down mode.

The wood is a native - probably teak or some other good hard wood. The inletting around the action is rough but the steel butt plate with trap door & cleaning rod has been done well & the barrel channel has also been done well to line up the barrel band front eye with the cross pin. It handles like my other sporter rifle.

I hope to have it restocked & rust blued one day. I might take it to Africa one day as my second rifle along with my Simson 9.3X62.

Gei's H&H MS is an awesome rifle & in very tidy condition. H&H's Manhattan gun rooms have one.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	Nakihunter	31/03/08 07:28 PM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	Marrakai	31/03/08 08:17 PM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	Landy	01/04/08 05:00 PM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	gei	04/06/08 01:44 AM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	Nakihunter	09/06/08 11:29 AM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	dnovo	09/06/08 11:45 AM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	9.3x57	09/06/08 11:55 AM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	Nakihunter	09/06/08 03:59 PM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	dale	11/06/08 04:24 PM
Re: Mannlicher-Schoenauer 1910 Take Down - 9.5X57	ChrisPer	15/09/08 02:23 PM

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