Hello Austrian firearms experts:
I'm writing a story about a MS 1903 rifle which I would like to be as historically accurate as possible.
My understanding is that this rifle model, and my example, was forged at Steyr circa 1914. But the inside of the rifle stock is stamped "Vienna". Were actions always stocked in Vienna (~100 miles away)? This is a left-hand stock, so must have been a special order. Any idea what part of the city a finishing shop would have been located in, or where a retail purchaser would have picked up a special order gun in Vienna back then?
