There are only a couple of things wrong with it. They nicely wrote back that due to the unpleasantries a few decades back, their records had been destroyed (along with the factory), so they had pretty much bupkus to give me. A while back I wrote a letter to Steyr-Mannlicher asking about dating it. The serial number is just under 16000, which I believe puts it well pre-war. It was a screaming deal, too - I think I paid something like $175 for it. The sexiest thing on the rack and I had to have it. I saw it in the gun store back in the mid-80s. One classic Mannlicher-Schönauer M1903 carbine - double-set triggers, 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schönauer, the 9 yards. It occurred to me today that I didn't have any decent pictures of my Mannlicher-Schönauer M1903 carbine so I could prove I own it to the insurance company if need be.
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