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An ambitious project! What great fortune you've had in finding MS parts for it.

Count me among those who are cringing at the thought of an eighty year old original Mannlicher Schoenauer stutzen stock being cut, but it's your project. A sixty centimeter barreled half stock is what you desire, and that's what you'll create.

If only there was a time machine available. With that (and $175.00 or so in 1939 U.S. dollars), you could have ordered one 'fresh'. My M1910 takedown has a barrel of approximately 60cm.

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in fact to find the missing parts 3 days later was not fortune but fate. dont believe in coincidences and have seen it all my life with hard to find things. sometimes there is your name invisible written on something and you will get it.
to cut down the full stock ... I know, it was not an easy decision and thinking allways about pro and con the last year. the 9,5x56 barrel is a little bit thicker in outside diamter and you can rework the M 1903 stock only a little. being over 1,80 meter I like the 60 cm barrel length and feel very comfortabel handling such rifles.
in the end I realy dont need a short stutzen.

it will look very similar like this rifle in the end



a 9,5x56 is rare here but you will find another 1903 every week. in contrast the Model 1910 is for sale one or two times a year. if I made a final bill the new project cost maybe the same BUT a project is allways more fun and you will get such a gun only from my cold dead hands.
if I had the opportunity to get a safe queen or a restoration projekt it will be the last.
this project is not realy hard if there was not the problem to adapt the magazine. I would call it lego for adults but the magazine question give it a real thrill and this makes me addicted like other bungee jumping.





igorrock, I will remember your problem when seeing another stock

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