My Steyr-Mannlicher M95

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So I received my new toy a couple hours ago. Quite the beautiful piece of hardware. I look forward to dislocating my shoulder shooting it or so I've been told.

I was hoping someone would be able to tell me more about it. It clearly was converted in the 30s to the new 8x56R but I was hoping to figure out when exactly it was manufactured originally. The barrel, receiver , stock and front band have matching serial numbers but the top hand guard is not matching (looks like 7527). Bolt has been electro-penciled to match.

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wolf19534 said:
yeah there will be a little kick to the old girl.....trust me....I shoot mine on a regular basis....Have you got ammo and the enbloc for the ammo yet ?
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I've got 60 rounds of PRVI ammo for it. Will be picking up about 200 rounds of it in a bit. No en-bloc clip unfortunately.
 
I have your sister Stutzen, same UN import mark, she is Budapest made though.

Your fine looking lady was made by Steyr in 1917 as a M95 Repetiterstutzen. In essence, a carbine with some features carried over from the rifle (bayonet lug, and bottom/side swivels). It was designed to be the one firearm for all branches of service, just like the No 1 Mk III.

I think the Un marking shows the year (2007) and country of export (Deutschland "DE"). I'm not sure what the other two marks are though I hope someone will chime in as I want to know as well :).

If I remember correctly, Bulgaria was one that electropenciled serial numbers on the the bolt while Austria and I believe Hungary stamped the numbers on the knob. Someone correct me if I am wrong as I am just getting my feet wet studying Mannlichers.

Who knows, perhaps your Steyr and my Budapest were crate mates ? :D.
 
That's an awesome bit of info Nabs. I was hoping it was made during WW1. I bought mine from TradeEx.

I specifically wanted one made at Steyr instead of Budapest.

Now I just need to figure out where to get a en-bloc clip.
 
Gunshows have them if you dig through the right parts bins. They seem to go for $5 a piece but prices can vary.

If you are looking for some good information, here is the website I use: http://www.hungariae.com/Mann95.htm.

Aside from Paul Scarlatta's book, I can't recall a dedicated Mannlicher or M95 book on the market.

I think with the manufacture of new commercial ammo, we are going to see a resurgence in popularity for these very well made rifles and carbines. I'm going to be taking my two Stutzens and long rifle out this coming Family day and give them a try with some hand loads :).
 
Once the darn snow goes away a bit I'll be having a good day with the milsurps.

It's a very inexpensive rifle to purchase really although the cost per shot is a bit high.
 
The en-bloc's are available at Gunshows. I picked up a couple more at Markham show for $5.00 a piece. I'm shooting cast bullets out of my carbine. I may have lucked out. My bore slugged at .329 and my Lee mould casts them at .331. Honed my Lee sizer to 331- use it to seat gas checks then pan lube. Accuracy at 50yds is around an inch and a half and the recoil doesn't loosen fillings or cause head aches.
 
That's why you SAVE YOUR BRASS, friend!

I started off, many years ago, with a Kar98k that cost $27.50 from Allan Lever..... but surplus ammo was hard to find in Canada. When you could get it, it was Greek or Czech. Comercial Dominion ammo was $5.25 a box and I was making $56 a week, less taxes. So I got into handloading and my ammo cost dropped in half. It would have dropped a lot farther if I had known what I know now.

You can RELOAD that Partizan brass perhaps a dozen times if you are using full-out combat loads, almost forever if using a squib load like the Harris Universal Load. The Harris load gives you shootable ammo which is good for about 2 to 3 MOA. It generates HALF the recoil of a full-house load, it is powerful enough to take a deer, accurate enough to take a gopher and it costs a DIME a shot and, believe it or not, you can actually cut that down to 6 cents by eliminating the gas check. So your ammo cost drops to $1.20 or $2 a box IF you have saved your brass.

If you want full-house loads, Trade-Ex has the special 208-grain slugs in a soft-point version for hunting legally, or they also have MilSpec .330-208 slugs for that, too. RCBS and Lee both make the dies, although the Lee dies work and are less than half the price of RCBS (which are really nice, BTW). The casings you have will take any Large Rifle primer and you can feed the thing with almost any regular powder. You will, though, want Alliant Red Dot for the Harris load: gets you 538 shots for a pound. Lee makes a special .330-205 mould for this number so you can cast your slugs out of old wheelweights; standard .32 gas-checks add the final 3 grains of weight and can be seated with the Lee sizing die tool which costs $20 complete with a $5 tube of lube. It might be an oddball calibre, but there is no reason you have to break the bank to shoot it!

You have a fun little cannon with a long and proud history to it.

Welcome aboard!
 
check the various parts. K is steyr, R is budapest. a stamped numbered bolthead with a hole in it is from the bulgarian contract. i can't remember who numbered the handguard though.

these are nice rifles, very underrated. i'd expect it to shot high, my reloads that shoot to point of aim at 100 are only doing 1900fps (but they still kill deer).
 
They are nice and light that's for sure...I have only taken mine out once and fired maybe 20 rnds or so...though my loads are slightly underpowered and using undersized bullet.
I'm sure it will be a blast once I get a decent load worked out.
Pretty slick little carbines !!
 
The sling loops on the side of the carbine would suggest it was originally a cavalry carbine. The bayonet lug band would have been added during the conversion to 8x56R.

The short rifle, “ M95 Repetiterstutzen “ that nabs mentions had it’s sling swivels under the stock the same as the long rifle. It was also issued with a bayonet that had a extra front sight on the muzzle ring to compensate for jump.

The 1985 Mannlicher long rifle on display in the War Museum in Ottawa has such a bayonet on it. This is incorrect, the long rifle bayonet lacks the front sight.

TradeEx had some long rifle bayonets for sale at one time.
 
I just finished cleaning her up. Super easy gun to disassemble and clean although the bolt is a bit of a pain to get back in. She's in even better condition than I thought so I'm pretty happy.

As for a shoulder pad... nah... When I shoot it I'll be in the mood for abuse.
 
Some Stutzens, like my Budapest, had the lower swivel on the rear band removed with a spacer added, and the lower butt swivel removed and filled in. My reading suggests Bulgaria did this for post WW2 police carbines and stutzens, perhaps to keep them in line with the carbines.

Given the stock has been newly matched to the OP's Mannlicher, I could be mistaken on the Stutzen.

You are right about the special Stutzen bayonets with the front sight on the muzzle ring, these were suppose to be issued only with Stutzens given the point of impact change when the bayonet was mounted. In practice, I'm not sure what was really done though.

There really should be more research on the Austrian Mannlichers, I hope Dr. Storz creates one such book in the near future after he is done with his Gewehr 88 book.

sail32 said:
The sling loops on the side of the carbine would suggest it was originally a cavalry carbine. The bayonet lug band would have been added during the conversion to 8x56R.

The short rifle, “ M95 Repetiterstutzen “ that nabs mentions had it’s sling swivels under the stock the same as the long rifle. It was also issued with a bayonet that had a extra front sight on the muzzle ring to compensate for jump.

The 1985 Mannlicher long rifle on display in the War Museum in Ottawa has such a bayonet on it. This is incorrect, the long rifle bayonet lacks the front sight.

TradeEx had some long rifle bayonets for sale at one time.
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Morc,

Another great CGN member helped me out with a different issue, completely out of the blue.
I told him I would "Pay it forward"
PM me your address and I'll send you 2 clips.
 
tootall said:
Morc,

Another great CGN member helped me out with a different issue, completely out of the blue.
I told him I would "Pay it forward"
PM me your address and I'll send you 2 clips.
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Thanks tootall,

Another member generously already put one in the mail for me. My "Pay it forward" will be a donation to the CSSA.
 
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