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Left-handed Mannlicher Schoenauer?

Pavel MPavel M Member Posts: 8 ✭✭
edited April 2008 in Ask the Experts
Gentlemen:

Has anybody ever seen a left-handed M/S M1903 6.5x54 or MCA 1950/1952/1962 in any of .243, .270, 30-06 ??

Have Mannlicher Schoenauer ever manufactured left-handed rifles?

I am a lefty and looking for such a M/S for me.

Regards,

Pavel
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  • PA ShootistPA Shootist Member Posts: 694 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been a Mannlicher-Schoenauer aficionado for a while; I currently own four different examples. I have read everything I could ever find in print about the M-S rifles, and I've never seen or heard of a left-hand version.
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  • MossbergboogieMossbergboogie Member Posts: 12,211
    edited November -1
    Never seen one but know what a regular one costs you will probably bay 5 times as much.
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Smoothest, sweetest, rifle ever, but I've never seen or heard of one in left handed variation. I sold my .270 after a pierced primer sent hot gases straight back into my face. Yes, I had on my shooting glasses, and no harm done, but it destroyed my comfort level with the action.
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  • Pavel MPavel M Member Posts: 8 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you, Gents
    Bad news for me. I want M-S, but now will have to decide whether to put up with standard-action M-S or get something else in left-hand.
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  • AdamsQuailHunterAdamsQuailHunter Member Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello "Pavel M"[:)]

    Welcome to the forum!!!!

    "R Crosby", I am mad as hell at you for not selling that gun to me.

    I just bought my grand nephew a Finnish "Tika" in left hand bolt for his high school graduation present - and a fine set of glass that cost nearly as much as the rifle. But it is definitely well made and a "shooter".

    Best Regards[:)]
    Steve Adams
    AdamsQuailHunter
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Steve,
    If it helps easy the pain any, it was a rifle, not carbine, and had been drilled and tapped for after market scope mounts. If I ever come across a decent carbine in 6.5 or 7mm I may just have to forget the primer incident and proceed with caution! [8D]
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  • AdamsQuailHunterAdamsQuailHunter Member Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello "Pavel M"[:)]

    I got the "Tika" from ton80 who sells on this auction site. He had two in left hand bolt. She is not the beauty queen of an MS, but she puts the bullets where you tell her.

    "RCrosby" -- well that takes some of the "sting" out. I gave my grand nephew his .308 for his high school graduation present. He is as proud as a purple peacock. I gave my other grand nephew an FN-49 in .308. Yes, they did make a few for the Chilian navy. One shipment managed to make it in before the Klinkton executive order ban. They had detachable magazines, that had to be cut down to 10 rounds instead of their normal 20 round capacity.

    I gave the rifles to my grand nephews 4 and 3 years "early" -- respectively. That way they can go to the range or hunting with their dads, grand dads, uncles, and great uncle, before they go off to college.

    Best Regards[8D]
    Steve Adams
    AdamsQuailHunter
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  • Pavel MPavel M Member Posts: 8 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you, AdamsQuailHunter
    I'll check that "Tikka" on the site.
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