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OK, in Sweden you occasionally could find Mannlicher marked as Mod. NO. Most of them have whole lenght stock and caliber 6,5x55 but also half stocked .30-06 rifles exists. They all have straight bolt handle and straight buttstock.

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The 6.5x55 chambering was indeed a special order chambering originally, made for the Scandinavian market exclusively, hence the NO model designation. The 6.5x55 Swede was unknown in central Europe until the Swedish military surplus Mausers started to come in about 1970, near the end of Mannlicher-Schoenauer production. The about 1960 catalog 6.5mm Steyr factory offerings were 6.5x54 M-S in the carbine only, 6.5x57 in carbines and rifles, both GK and MC stocks, and 6.5x68 in the "Magnum" model.

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