Fantasy League Rifle Selection: newly-made Mannlicher-Schönauers! (No, really!)
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Well I think it is brilliant and whilst I probably wouldn’t swap my Blaser for one, if I had more time and money, I would be interested. They have such a good reputation. I know of a professional stalker with a mannlicher schoenauer actioned rifle and he absolutely loves it. I do wonder how many 1920s sportmen would swap theirs for a Blaser though, given the enthusiasm that Bell seems to have had for a 308 Winchester 70. For most of us though, this sport is for enjoyment and why not have something so beautiful. I could whitewash the inside of my house and coat the floors in rubber, which would be very practical but not much character or soul.
Caberslash was merely displaying the best of Scottish humour, and it raised a smile from me at least given the gaudy nature of the beast. They say humour does not translate well.
Case hardening is so overrated in taste and price. Just cover something with a pile of charcoal, bung it in a oven set to around 320C for a wee bit, wheek it out, dump into a cold stream and dicht it off. Bingo, gaudy in a box and money printed.
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Thing is, it's reflective of his posts about pretty much anything else....
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A stream (as in stream of water from a big hose), not a burn, otherwise one would never find it again.
tim@tcs
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How would Swedish Mauser be viewed considering the first few years were German production until the Swedish factory was up and running. Are early Obendorf Swedes not swedes?
I almost commented on a different post of his earlier today. I don’t think I have ever read a post by caberslash where he was happy or complimentary about anything.
How can a man without a Mannlicher-Schoenauer be happy?
Pine Marten
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I'm going to save up and order one with extra gaudy colours and a disco-ball finish on the bolt just to wind you all up now. Kaleidoscope lenses on the scope too.
How are you going to get that on your ticket? Clearly would be of no practical use for stalking deer.
I admit to liking a "jewelled" finish on a bolt. Just got a Sauer with a boring bolt, so plan to give it a jewelled finish this weekend. Can post a before and after to laugh at.
But gaudy colour case hardening look everywhere? No.
The spiced-up Mannlicher does not look like real actual hardening, i.e. leaving it in the charcoal at the critical temperature for that steel (anywhere from 500C to 1050C, and 740C for the piece beside me), but rather the sparkly colour enhancing lookalike finish you you get by using a lower temperature like 320 to 450C. The telltale signs that make me wonder are the wide areas near edges without any colour, and the sudden change rather than graduations of colour spectrum. I am probably wrong and the Austrians may have found/rediscovered an amazing new technology which I would love to know more of, but I have not seen real hardening come out looking quite like that before. To me, knowing what normal case hardening looks like, this looks like an engineer's equivalent of graffiti using a collection of old spray cans. Perhaps I am just behind the times.
Will have to look at the videos of their process, then grind up some old bones and a pickaxe handle (hickory), and try with a piece of the same steel in the kiln. At least it is good weather to get lots of really cold water to cool it fast. Out of curiosity of course, it just would not be British to wreck a good gun like that.
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Pine Marten
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I did specify it would be "to wind you all up", I never said anything about deerstalking! Actually maybe I could just generate an image using AI that would do the job.
harrygrey382
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Thats getting into splitting hairs really - I guess people call them Oberndorf Swedes…
Not converted or Mauser, but made by DWM for the Portuguese using a Portuguese design with a mauser magazine and Mannlicher-Schoenauer bolt. Generally called a Vergueiro, or 1904 Portuguese Mauser. Even calling it a Portuguese Mauser is foolish as most people that have even a small knowledge of mausers would assume a 1937 or 1942 contract 98, because these are indeed full Mausers. Anyone calling a a Vergueiro just a Mauser is in the same category as calling a Prado (Colorado to you?) a Landcruiser - ignorant.
Nice rifles - I almost bought one in a local gun shop recently but then I saw it had a nasty commercial alloy bottom metal fitted and passed. They can be made into beautiful sporters
tim@tcs
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Welcome to my world
enfieldspares
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Years ago, through Holt's, with its correct contemporary 'scope they has a 6.5mm had belonged to a man who'd won the VC in late 1918 in the same week and location which saw Wilfred Owen killed.
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