Within a very short time the 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schoenauer became a popular sporting cartridge in Europe and Africa. Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles and carbines were exclusively manufactured at Oesterreich Waffenfabrik Gesellschaft Steyr in Steyr, Austria. The 1903 Mannlicher rifles and carbines were the last designs of Ferdinand Ritter Von Mannlicher, who died the next year, and his friend Otto Schönauer who designed the exceptional rotary drum magazine intrinsic to all Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifles. Austria and Greece adopted the 1903 military rifle and the 6.5x54 cartridge that same year.
The Mannlicher-Schoenauer rifle dates to 1903 when the 6.5x54mm cartridge and both military and civilian rifles to shoot it were introduced. A Brief History of Mannlicher-Schoenauer Rifles,
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