Steyr-Mannlicher thoughts?

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I am thinking of upgrading my Tikka T3 lite for something from Steyr. Does anyone use them? i am led to believe that they are extremely well put together and superbly accurate bits of kit. What models would you recommend as they seem to make several. Many thanks, Mike.
 
Hi depends on what you want to shoot, i have a Styer Scout brilliant rifle would not part with it. mostly used for Fox, & Deer, it's a. 243.
Never let me down, very accurate, if I was to change it would be same rifle, in .223 just for Mr Fox.
 
As previously stated, it depends on what you want to shoot. I have an SSG04 in 308win with a 23.6 inch barrel which is really well put together and ultra-reliable. With my home loads, this rifle will shoot 1/2 MOA from the bench all day and YES ... the barrel is screwed in and easily replaceable. I thought I'd get that in before the usual myths / cliches about pressed in barrels etc appear.

Jamsie
 
I am thinking of upgrading my Tikka T3 lite for something from Steyr. Does anyone use them? i am led to believe that they are extremely well put together and superbly accurate bits of kit. What models would you recommend as they seem to make several. Many thanks, Mike.
"Upgrade", personal opinion is that it wouldn't be an upgrade. It would be something different yes, but not an upgrade.
Your user name would suggest that you are looking for a working rifle so I would be inclined to stick with the Tikka, they take some beating.
 
My main rifle is a Steyr-Mannlicher Classic stutzen in 7mm-08, bought new in 2012 and I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to change it. It looks great, shoots accurately with my reloads and before that with Federal ammunition (it hated the Remington stuff though), has some nice little safety features like the two-position magazine, which means it can be in but the bolt won't pick up a round, and the way you can push down the bolt until it clicks, which disconnects the firing pin until you switch the safety off. But the main reason I love it is that it just handles beautifully, like an extension of the arms, and that's partly coincidental, but also down to stock design. That Bavarian profile just works for me. Oh, and the Mannox coating on the metal parts makes it pretty indestructible.
 
I have owned three Mannlichers, two Schoenauers, a stutzen 6.5x54 and a rifle in 30-06.
My favorite was an M-72 in 6.5x57 a super round for deer with the RWS-CP 127gr.
 
I have a Scout 6.5 CM that is set up as a scout rifle. Great gun. Accurate... but I have others, including a rack of T3's. If I had to have one main-stay rifle it wouldn't be that Scout. ~Muir
 
My favorite was an M-72 in 6.5x57 a super round for deer with the RWS-CP 127gr.
I always wanted to try something in a 6.5x57 . Granted I've had a boatload of 260's , 6.5x55's and 6.5x54 MS rifles and I'm sure the x57 won't do anything the other three cartridges couldn't just wanted to try one .
 
Well you could always Ackley improve the 57 case it's about ideal for that.
Then you would have an 260 AAR
 
I have a Blaser R8 6.5×55 and a Steyr Mannlicher Luxus 6.5×57. The Blaser shoots everything accurately and to pretty much the same POI. The Steyr in 6.5×57 is the looker of the two, but the 6.5×57 seems to be much more fussy about different ammo and also homeloads.
This coupled with somewhat poor factory ammo selection would put the swede on the top of my list.
The 6.5×57 is a bit exotic nowdays. It was a really popular round in Germany and Austria in the 60ies and 70ies. But it was not used in the same way in these countries as the swede was in scandinavia. The swede had always been a moose round. The germans however mainly used the 6.5×57 for lighter deer species. The selection of ammo was available in light of this. The only heavier load was RWS H Mantel 155 gr. It was praised by german hunters as a very good round also for wild boar, which started to appear in large numbers in europe in 80ies and 90ies. Unfortunately RWS stopped making it sometimes in 97' or 98'. As a result the cartridge did not suvive large wild boar populations boom as there was not a lot of suitable ammo about anymore. Everyone just bought a bigger cal.
While in scandinavia the 6.5×55 had always been a big game round. And besides the hunters themselves, it was also well supported by big ammo manufacturers, like Norma. They offered plenty of very good heavy loadings, like Norma Oryx 156 gr, Norma Vulcan 156 gr, Lapua Mega 155 gr, which truly made the 6.5×55 a big game round and at the same time also enabled it to survive along with much stronger calibers floating about nowdays.
One more thing about it. The 6.5×57 is factory loaded even lighter than 6.5×55 in most cases, and it is hard to say that this is reasonable. The 6.5×57 in theory can even handle a bit more powder and pressure than the 6.5×55.
So myself I would always choose 6.5×55 first, even though I also enjoy having the 6.5×57 very much.
 
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