Steyr Mannlicher-Schoenauer

1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer

The Mannlicher-Schönauer (commonly simplified to Mannlicher–Schoenauer) rifle is rotary-magazine bolt-action rifle designed by Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher and Otto Schönauer (the author of the rotary magazine) on the Österreichische Waffenfabriksgesellschaft (currently Steyr Mannlicher). The rifle was introduced in 1900, and in 1903 the Greek Army adopted the rifle chambered in the 6.5x54mm cartridge. The 1903 Mannlicher rifles and carbines were the last designs of Mannlicher, who died the next year. Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles and carbines were manufactured at Oesterreich Waffenfabrik Gesellschaft Steyr in Steyr, Austria. Steyr made carbines and sporters after World War One in various calibers.

The Mannlicher–Schönauer rifle was the main small arm for the Greek military till 1948. The first batch was supplied in 1906–07 to a total of about 130,000 long rifles and carbines. A second batch of 50,000 rifles was ordered from Steyr in 1914. When the war broke out, the Austrians stopped the delivery of the rifles. During the Greece-Turkish War (1919–22), the Greeks suffered large losses of the rifles, and in 1927, 105,000 Mannlicher–Schönauer rifles were ordered in Italy, on the Breda factory. It is speculated that Breda might have used Austrian captured parts and machinery for this order. In 1930, 25,000 more 1903/14/30 carbines was ordered on the Steyr factory.

A civilian version of the rifle, also introduced in 1903, proved popular with hunters. The hunting model was produced in a large variety of calibers, including .30-06 Springfield, .270 Winchester, .257 Weatherby Magnum, .264 Winchester Magnum, .338 Winchester Magnum, .458 Winchester Magnum, 6.5×68mm, 8×68mm S, and others. Steyr produced Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles until 1972, with the interrupt during the Second World War. Ernest Hemingway frequently used the rifle, and made it famous in his works, of those The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber is best known.

The Steyr Mannlicher-Schoenauer and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Mannlicher-Schoenauer M1903 Rifle and Carbine

Greek Mannlicher-Schönauer Y1903/14 - 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer

Greek Mannlicher-Schoenauer - 6.5x54mm Mannlicher-Schönauer.

Greek 1903/14 Mannlicher-Schoenhauer Carbine - 6.5x54mm.

Specifications

(1903 – 1941)

• Type:

• Caliber: 6.5 x 54mm Mannlicher-Schoenauer

• Weight: 8.44 lbs (3.83 kg)

• Length: 48.3 in (122.6 cm)

• Barrel length: 28.6 in (72.5 cm)

• Capacity: 5-round rotary magazine

• Fire Modes: Bolt-Action

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
You Can't Win 'Em All		Greek troops	M1903 Carbine	1970
A Woman at Her Window (Une femme à sa fenêtre)		Greek soldiers and policemen	M1903/14 Carbine	1976

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Note	Release Date
Forgotten Hope 2	"Schoenauer Y 1903/14"	Can be fitted with a bayonet	Greek Y1903/14 rifle, added in v2.6 (2022)	2007
Squad 44: Letters From The Front	"Mannlicher 1903"		Added in December 2023	2018
	"Mannlicher 1903-14"
	"Mannlicher 1903 Carbine"
Isonzo	"Mannlicher Schönauer M.03/14"			2022

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Carbine (Full Stock)

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Carbine

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Carbine with Scope

Mannlicher 98 Brno Carbine

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Macomber Affair	Joan Bennett	Margaret Macomber		1947
The Green Archer	Gert Fröbe	Abel Bellamy		1961
The Longest Day	Peter Lawford	Brigadier Lord Lovat		1962
The Eighth (Osmiyat)	Djoko Rosic	Petar		1969
The Day That Shook the World	Christopher Plummer	Archduke Ferdinand		1975
	Jirí Kodet	Morsley
Commander Hamilton	Mats Långbacka	Stålhandske		1998

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Hogan's Heroes		A sniper	"Bad Day in Berlin" (S04E11)	1968
30 Cases of Major Zeman	Ilja Prachar	Čadek	Custom with a Scope/ "Hon na lišku" (S01E05)	1976
	Radoslav Brzobohatý	Pavel Bláha
	Petr Oliva	Karel Mutl	Mannlicher 98 Brno/"Vrah se skrývá v poli" (S01E10)
Babylon Berlin	Joachim Paul Assböck	Major Beck	Modell GK, with scope; Ep.6	2017

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Sporter

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Sporter

Mannlicher-Schoenauer Sporter with Scope

Mannlicher-Schonauer - U.S. 30-06.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
White Heat	Edmond O'Brien	Hank Fallon		1949
The Killing	Timothy Carey	Nikki Arcane		1956
Hud		Member of shooting party		1963
Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil)	Jean-Paul Belmondo	Rocco	With a scope	1964
	Andréa Parisy	Pepa
The Thirty Nine Steps	Donald Pickering	Marshall		1978
Moonraker	Guy Delorme	Drax' assassin		1979
White Hunter Black Heart	Clint Eastwood	John Wilson		1990
Schindler's List	Ralph Fiennes	Amon Göth		1993
Lake Placid 3	Yancy Butler	Reba	With sniper scope	2010

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Miami Vice	Jim Zubiena	Ludovici Armstrong		1984 - 1989

See Also

• Steyr Mannlicher - A list of all firearms manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher.