Does the "ms" stand for Mannlicher-Schönauer? If so there is a like here:

6.5×54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A very cool history of this gun. It was used famously to take MANY elephants back in the day, but the guy was a phenomenal shot, and it is probably a good way to become African road-kill these days. I'm not sure exactly what the difference between this and a 6.5x55 Swede (which I have - in a Mannlicher stock - no less!)

 

You've a wonderful little treasure there. 6.5 mm MS will take anything east of the Mississippi, and west if you're brave. Unless you mortgaged your home to buy it and are now starving it should be considered a 'keeper'. Read Frank de Haas' book 'Bolt Action Rifles' and it reinforce your decision to buy it. One of the smoothest, best built, of the finest materials and workmanship, albeit not very scope friendly. You've got that covered with a great peep. PM me if you want to trade for something. AC

 

Gunscrewguy I haven't dated this rifle yet but it is in excellent condition and I can't find one for sell that is in this good of condition. It is not a Marlin so of course I would consider trading it for one but it would have to be a LTD model like 1894ssltd type lol.

I own a few Steyr sbs rifles and a Steyr scout but this is my first set trigger mannlicher. I'm just trying to gather more info on this one before making any final decisions. Thanks

 

Ohhh me, oh my, and now I've got drool to clean off my keyboard.

I've got 3 Mannlicher Schoenauers, but they're all postwar models. Two .30-06, one .270 and only one is a full-stock carbine. Looks like a similar (later version, no doubt) peep sight to yours stuck onto my .30-06 carbine:




I even have a set of reloading dies for the 6.5 M/S, because someday...

 

I haven't been able to convince myself to shoot it yet. It's to purdy. Are the dies hard to find? Brass?

 

I haven't been able to convince myself to shoot it yet. It's to purdy. Are the dies hard to find? Brass?

Dies:
6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer | Rifle Reloading Dies

Brass:
Norma Reloading Brass 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer
Graf & Sons - PRVI PARTIZAN BRASS 6.5x54 MS UNPRIMED 100/BAG

 

Just sold a set - ugh! Brass is all over the internet. Dies, take your pick, from Lee to RCBS. AC

 

Ok. Good. I haven't searched for components yet because I'm still up in the air on keeping it or letting her go.

 

Thanks molasses.

 

 

Any ideas as to how to figure out year of manufacture?

 

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Any ideas as to how to figure out year of manufacture?

you have to remove the action from stock to see mfr code on bottom of barrel and receiver I believe - it will be 2-3 digits for a proofhouse followed by a period and then 2 digits for year of manufacture. beautiful rifle! gewehr

 

 

Thanks. No I have to figure out how to disassemble her lol

 

That's a beauty man!!! I like the peep a whole bunch too! (No pun intended! Haha)

 

Thanks everyone. I'm considering selling it to purchase a Steyr elite or SSG. From what I've found similar rifles not in this good of shape have sold recently for 1800-2200. Now I understand how auctions work and when big wigs get in bidding wars but do yall think $1800 would be a reasonable value on this rifle? It could be worth way more or less I'm just not sure. Thanks.

 

I'm no expert on these, but I'd love to have it and I think $1800 is a very reasonable price. It's more than I can afford to spend on a rifle, but I don't think it will be hard to sell at that price.

 

Love those butter knife bolts, full length stock and the "extra" trigger. Sweet rifle.

 

Beautiful rifle, don't have a clue what it is worth but if it were mine I don't think I could sell it. I used to know a fellow that collected them and he was paying $1500.00 for some of them 20+ years ago so I would say that is a reasonable price.

 

If I had the cash or even wasn't carrying a balance on the credit card right now, I'd be all over that rifle for $1800.00 As it is, I'm sitting here trying not to throw out unwanted trade offers and putting the brakes on a mess of schemes of what to sell to raise that kind of cash fast. I mean, lots of people manage to get by on just one kidney, right? :stupido3:

Honestly, I have no idea what a fair price would be for that rifle. Condition, condition, condition: it's in much better shape than the ones that come up in searches of completed auctions at GunBroker, but I don't know what the market will bear.
I guess that if it were mine and I were selling it, I'd start high and figure the price can always come down later if nobody's willing, while it's impossible to raise the price after someone's said "I'll take it!".

 

Russell the one I had just like it was a 8x56 but the condition was not as nice as yours. Does yours have the trap door in the butt that holds 4 or 5 shells. I loved that feature. 8x56 was hard to find so I took 8x57 brass and filed a little off of it and it worked good. It shot a little high with the open sights, probably needed the heavier bullet which it was regulated for. That gun almost caused me to be put in jail, One of these days if we have a little time I will tell you about it Anyhow looks like the one you have is super nice and the 6.5x54ms is a heck of a medium range deer rifle. cograts

 

When I was in my first two years of college, I dated a girl who owned one of those M-S carbines in 6.5mm M/S. She had shot elk, pronghorns, caribou, and a variety of African plains game with it before we met. Her father bought it for her when she was 12 years old. I got to shoot it quite a bit when we were dating and I thought it was an impressive piece of equipment then and still do. Had she not been killed by an intoxicated driver when we were 20 years old, I like to think we'd still be an "item" today. But that's not the way things turned out. Still, whenever I see one of these things in photos, doing so opens up the floodgates of fond memories.... I might be blinded by the association between those rifles and my "soul mate" that I cling to, but I think I'd want one absent of that, from reading about the "short-barreled bark" in Hemingway stories when I was a kid. If had one, a "safe queen" it would not be.. I'd use the heck out of it. And I wouldn't think about selling it, either. They ain't makin' suitable replacements, anymore.

 

Beautiful rifle!

 

That could be the cleanest MS out there, very, very nice! Original loads where 159gr at around 2350, very close to a 6.5 Swede.