This sweet little Steyr Mannlicher Schoenauer model 1950 starts at 9 tonight

Ricci.Wright

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/859280263

mark christian

That rifle has it all; including a great caliber. I remember when people used to laugh the old Lyman scopes, but they are genuine made in the USA, and these days you won't find many affordable optics that can make that claim. 

Butchdog2

Watch out Ricci. 84 will be spreading butter with the bolt on something to eat if he buys it. Could send him a cake of corn bread.

Grasshopper

  Spoonbills, in the late 80s I was addicted to them more than a woman's midsection. That is one sweet rifle!

Horse Plains Drifter

That one's a sweetheart for sure!

select-fire

Nice

jimdeere

The hole through the barrel is too big for my liking, otherwise I’d bid. That rifle cost a pretty penny when it was new.

Horse Plains Drifter

jimdeere said:

The hole through the barrel is too big for my liking, otherwise I’d bid. That rifle cost a pretty penny when it was new.

Well just drill it smaller then.....

Grasshopper

 On it for a day. Class outfit.

kimi

It does have some very nice features!

Ambrose

That is an interesting rifle and a bit different.  I own several of these rifles and have done some research on them.  Steyr got the go-ahead from the Allies to return to making sporting rifles again in 1950 (remember, Austria was on the Axis side in WWII; also Hitler was Austrian!).  I think the first ones were in .270 because they weren't allowed to chamber them for a military cartridge, but by the time they had made 4,000 of them, they had the .30/06.  Stoeger was the importer and they had a dizzying array of model numbers:  1950, improved 1950, 1952, 1956, 1961 MCA.  They also had a MC and a GK.  The 1950 and the 1950 improved had charger guides (clip slots) and a straight down bolt handle.  By 1952, Stoeger wanted the charger guides gone and the bolt handle swept back.  The early Stoeger 1952 changes were still marked model 1950--I have one of those.  Your rifle, if it had been a Stoeger gun made in 1956, would have been marked model 1952.  It would also have a black fore-end tip and a conventional 1" front sling swivel rather than that stirrup.  And it would have had the Stoeger marking on the floor-plate.  I would bet that your rifle was purchased in Germany, probably by a US serviceman stationed there, and brought back when he returned.  I'll bid on it. 

Sam06

I saw the rifle when I went to see Ricci last week.  It is very nice.  I am watching it and may bid even though I don't hunt any more.

Ambrose

I am currently the high bidder on this rifle but I am somewhat concerned about the apparent lack of the "brown, water-based protective coating".  Isn't that supposed to be standard on Ricci's auctions?