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In fact, the ad (and the product) was for 9.5X57 Mannlicher Schoenauer RIMMED brass. I saw the R there, and completely missed it. That's ok, I'll take the hit. But...

I can't find any information on any rimmed rifle.

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As far as I am aware, there was never a rimmed Mannlicher Schoenauer.

Rimmed Mannlichers, yes (M1895 and such), but the Schoenauer rotary magazine, which is the 'Schoenauer' in Mannlicher Schoenauer, takes rimless cartridges only as the magazine is precision milled for them. I can't imagine the mechanism working with a rimmed cartridge.

Perhaps Kuduae will weigh in on this as his knowledge of European cartridges of the period far exceeds mine.

Is the case straight walled with taper or 'bottle necked'?

I do know that the original MS cartridge of 6.5X54 was the direct descendant of a rimmed 6.5X54 and shares load data but the 9,5X57's competitors were the Velopex .400/.375 which was both rimless and belted (the first commercially available belted case, I believe) and the .375 2.5" which was rimmed, but a straight sided case with slight taper.

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