THIS rifle has a most intriguing feature: the barrel and receiver are made in one piece. Steyr reasons that this will create a more rigid and accurate firearm, and the results of our testing indicate this is true.
The Monobloc is also a modular rifle and Steyr implies you can switch calibres: one bolt and one stock and one trigger suffice for different bolt heads, magazines and barrelled actions. However, as the serial number applies to the entire barrelled action, Steyr’s suggestion isn’t valid under Australian registration laws.
Instead, what you have is a rifle whose appearance can be highly customised with different stocks, inlays and other components.
Steyr Arms is an innovative firearms company. It has been ever since Ritter von Mannlicher pioneered his designs in the last quarter of the 19th Century. His work was original. He was a pathfinder in the field of automatic weapons and designed a number of special repeating rifles and magazine systems.
Before von Mannlicher died in 1903 he developed over 150 models of automatic and repeating rifles.
In the 1950s Steyr became famous for its iconic, beautifully made Mannlicher-Schoenauer Sporter, which boasted a revolving spool-shaped box magazine that protected the cartridges by separating them from each other. Modified versions of this
