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Mannlicher Schoenauer MCA

ECO-DAVEECO-DAVE Member Posts: 243 ✭✭✭
edited September 2010 in Ask the Experts
Hello,

I am looking at a MCA in 30-06, it has had a recoil pad installed and was wondering how bad it hurts the value?? I don't have a picture but the rifle is in fine condition, also has a Vari-2 3x9 with the original bases. The guy wants $1000, what do ya think??

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  • nitsa216nitsa216 Member Posts: 48 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    when you state - rifle has original bases , exactly what kind of bases are these / Was the rifle drilled and tapped over receiver ring ? does it have a side mount?
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Also something you may want to consider. I had one in .270 Win..
    Smoothest, most beautifully made bolt action I'd ever owned. (though the action had been drilled and tapped for the Redfield mounts)
    Let it go when a pierced primer sent gas straight through the bolt and back to my shooting glasses.
    FWIW, I think the price is a bit steep for an altered stock, and definitely if it's been drilled and tapped, but even if so, it will probably draw that money from someone.
    Just not me.
    p.s. Not a foolproof test, but with mine it not drilled and tapped except for the side mount mentioned above. The dead giveaway on mine was that the holes on the receiver ring went right through some of the lettering.
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  • HerschelHerschel Member Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had the same experience as RCrosby with the pierced primer. Mine was an MCA Rifle in .270 cal. I believe the later MCA models came drilled and tapped on the receiver ring and left side of the split bridge for scope bases. My 1969 Gun Digest only says they were drilled and tapped for Steyr Mounts. Tapped scope mounting holes on the subject rifle may be original from the factory.
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  • AmbroseAmbrose Member Posts: 3,224 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The model 1956 and the MCA are drilled and tapped in the receiver ring and the left side of the split bridge. However, some of the earlier ones had metric tapping in the bridge. Redfield bases came with both 6-48 and metric screws so that the right ones could be used.

    BTW: That price doesn't sound too bad to me. You don't mention whether it's a carbine or rifle--the full-stock carbines usually bring a little more. The recoil pad hurts the value to collectors but probably makes it a better shooter. If that's a Leupold scope, it's a good one. If you like the rifle, go for it. I have 6 of these rifles, shoot them regularly with full loads and have never had a gas leak problem.
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  • ECO-DAVEECO-DAVE Member Posts: 243 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the replies...it is a full stock rifle.
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