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  • 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. 
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    A beautiful firearm Ricci. Anyone would be proud to own that.

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  • 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.
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    My Pals.

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  • Grasshopper
      Spoonbills, in the late 80s I was addicted to them more than a woman's midsection. That is one sweet rifle!
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    That one's a sweetheart for sure!
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  • select-fire
    Nice
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  • 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.
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  • 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.....
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  • Grasshopper
     On it for a day. Class outfit.
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  • kimi
    It does have some very nice features!
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  • 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. 
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • KenK/84Bravo

    Apparently, only on mine Ambrose. 🤔 You are safe.


    I shudder to think of what is going to happen, when I part with a fair # of mine through Ricci,

    I foresee angle grinders, etc. "This here Firearm has obviously been abused by it's prior owner." Etc. 😣

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