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Mannlicher Schönauer

Picking up a Mannlicher Schönauer rifle always gets me hankering after a time long gone. During the early 1900s, all you really needed on an African safari were sufficient porters, a double rifle for the larger animals and a Mannlicher for everything else.

‘Karamojo’ Bell, Phillip Percival, Karen Blixen, Ernest Hemingway and many others used Mannlicher Schönauers in the popular 6.5x54mm calibre. Its 160gr bullet travelling at a modest 2 150fps in a lightweight rifle toppled just about everything on the African continent, including a few elephant in the hands of the very experienced Karamojo Bell (though he soon