Steyr Mannlicher Model M Luxus .30-06 / Bausch Lomb Optic

[Jager Waffen74]

I am selling my Steyr Mannlicher model M Luxus chambered in .30-06. It comes with a Period Era Bausch and Lomb 3-9×40 scope. I will say this scope is an incredibly crisp and clear optic with duplex reticle. These were actually a high end scope. The gun is in overall good condition, rifling is sharp, bluing is 98% and the stock is all original with light finish loss on left side. Minor. It was carried on a sling but not shot much. Over all it is an excellent piece at a very affordable price for Austrian engineering!

Asking $1250.00 for it and that includes shipping and insurance to your dealer.

 

[Jager Waffen74]

MORE PICS!! $1250 SHIPPED AND INSURED

 

[PARA45]

Bump. Buy with confidence, @ Jager Waffen 74 is a solid member of this forum. I've dealt with him in the past and the item I purchased was as described.

 

[Jager Waffen74]

Thank you PARA! I have a bunch of guns I am going to be listing from before and stuff I haven't posted. I run a larger landscape company and I am not always online. So I will be posting stuff weekly.

Thanks!

 

[sestoppelman]

Nice rifle, but not a Luxus.

 

[One Day...]

Correct! The Luxus has a non-external-claw-extractor controlled round feed supplied from a metal inline magazine. The trigger guard is also metal.

Here is one of mine for comparison. The visual clues are that the magazine side clamps are significantly forward of the trigger guard, and the trigger is gold plated.

This being said, $1,250.00 for a scoped Steyr Mannlicher is a very, very good price

 

[sestoppelman]

Steyr Mannlicher .300 Win Mag - LUXUS, TWIST BARREL, 60 DEGREE BOLT vintage firearms inc

Steyr Mannlicher .300 Win Mag - LUXUS, TWIST BARREL, 60 DEGREE BOLT vintage firearms inc for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

Here is another one. If it doesnt say LUXUS on the receiver side, it aint one. Not to mention a Luxus usually goes for about double the asking price of the OP's rifle.

 

[Jager Waffen74]

You are both incorrect, and this is coming from someone who owned over 23 Steyr Luxus grades as you are showing with the steel magazines, and stamped Luxus. The guns you are showing were produced in the early 80's and I think around 1981 or 82 and continued up into the 1990's.

The gun I have listed for better terms is a Luxus or should I say deluxe. As the standard Model M, during the 70's when this gun was made, had either a plain piece of wood with no rosewood or came in the punky plastic stocks like the SSG 69 had. They continued to produce this variation past 1980 but not much past that.

Regardless, it is a great deal on this gun, at $1250.00, it does have the hammer forge twist barrel.

 

[Jager Waffen74]

These steyrs and all the older steyrs continue to shoot and incredible number of rounds before you will ever burn up a barrel. I spoke to Steyr and they said they tested the SSG 69 surpassing 10k rounds... I had a hard time to believe that, but it is what they said. They are super guns!

 

[sestoppelman]

It is of course a very nice rifle and fairly priced, but as you yourself just said, its not a Luxus, so we are not wrong.
Its a standard Model M.

 

[One Day...]

You are both incorrect, and this is coming from someone who owned over 23 Steyr Luxus grades as you are showing with the steel magazines, and stamped Luxus. The guns you are showing were produced in the early 80's and I think around 1981 or 82 and continued up into the 1990's.

The gun I have listed for better terms is a Luxus or should I say deluxe. As the standard Model M, during the 70's when this gun was made, had either a plain piece of wood with no rosewood or came in the punky plastic stocks like the SSG 69 had. They continued to produce this variation past 1980 but not much past that.

Regardless, it is a great deal on this gun, at $1250.00, it does have the hammer forge twist barrel.

Oh, really?


Your rifle:

A Luxus rifle:

I rest my case

You have a "Standard" rifle. As to the ones with Cycolac stock (what you call "punky plastic"), if memory serves (?) they were called "Professional".

As to calling yours "de luxe" you can of course do whatever you want...

 

[Jager Waffen74]

All I am trying to say for the Era of this rifle, the luxus grades you speak of and I have owned were not available at that time. This was their luxus grade or deluxe as you have it. So no you are not wrong or right. You are comparing a rifle that came out in later years

 

[One Day...]

Nope! When I bought mine at Kettner, the Franco German distributor, in 1984 if I remember, I had the choice between the Standard, like yours, the Luxus, like mine, and the Professional (although this one was rare on the shelves). The Standard and Luxus were made and sold in parallel. I can tell you for a fact that my best pal and I bought ours - his a Standard in .243 and mine a Luxus in .270 - within weeks of each other.

Steyr Mannlicher did not offer (at least in Europe) a "de luxe" and all the "Standard" I ever saw had a fore end tip. Only the competition / benchrest rifles did not have one, but had a heavy stock often with ventilation vents in the forearm.

You have a "Standard", period, but the possible variation (?) with yours could be an "American" version with shiny synthetic finish and single trigger, compared to the traditional oil finish and typical double trigger sold in Europe. I am not saying that I know this to be a fact, I am speculating, but slapping a shiny varnish was the usual way to "Americanize" European rifles in those days, and a single trigger would make sense for an "American" version which the importer could very well have labelled "de luxe" (see I am trying to be nice to you)

 

[sestoppelman]

All I am trying to say for the Era of this rifle, the luxus grades you speak of and I have owned were not available at that time. This was their luxus grade or deluxe as you have it. So no you are not wrong or right. You are comparing a rifle that came out in later years

A rifle is either a Luxus or it isnt. There is no unmarked Luxus. Look at the difference in the rifle itself! Its a totally different model with different features than yours..
As to the De Luxe model? Never heard of one or seen one. I am a fan of Steyr rifles and look at lots of them for sale all over the place and have owned several M's, one S magnum, at least 3 Professionals and currently have an M72 which is a whole other animal.
You cant just say oh well its this or that. It either is or isnt. Your rifle, and very nice it is, is a standard model M, no more no less.
I guess you can call your Model M a Luxus if you like. I may start calling my Chevy a Cadillac!

 

[crs]

All this debating/argument has given me a headache.
Makes me glad to have plain old Winchesters!
All that I have to remember is the model number.

 

[sestoppelman]

All this debating/argument has given me a headache.
Makes me glad to have plain old Winchesters!
All that I have to remember is the model number.

Oh yeah? CRF or push feed, or CR push feed? Pre 64, post 64, pre Miroku? Pre Portugal? LOL!

 

[Ray B]

you forgot Pre-War

 

[crs]

Well I have never been to Portugal, but there are other places that I would rather hunt.

As far as that other technical stuff, I will just go with the flow.

Going out this weekend to confirm the velocity of my .45-90 rifle hand loads (1886 and DR) --just been estimating so far. Probably bust a few caps on pistol ammo too.
The weather is still too dry, but milder temps have arrived!

 

[sestoppelman]

"Well I have never been to Portugal, but there are other places that I would rather hunt."

Me neither but my model 70 Alaskan was made there.

 

[Robmill70]

Why are you guys hijacking his ad?