Anyone familiar with this Steyr?

You have a Dutch Mannlicher model of 1895. Calibre 6.5x53.5R.
I am not an expert, but the best I can tell, it was made at Steyr in Austria in 1896 and refurbished or maybe converted from rifle to carbine at the Dutch State Arsenal at Hembrug in Holland in 1926. The "W" is for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
I think it is what was then known as a bicycle carbine. The side mounted sling swivels and wood cover over the left side of the magazine made for stable carry slung over the back on a bicycle. Yes, they had troops who maneuvered on bicycles back then.

Yours looks good. $400-600 value. To bad there is very little ammo and fairly hard to make a casing.

I'm very familiar with that Steyr.

Because I have two more like it.



You have a Dutch Mannlicher, Model 1895, turnbolt instead of straight pull. They're also known as Romanian Cavalry Carbines, the asymmetrical stock, covering the "horsey" side of the single-stack box magazine is the defining feature. It's chambered in 6.5x53R Dutch Mannlicher, which predates the more popular 6.5x54 Mannlicher-Schonauer rimless round by one year. As you mentioned, there should be a large round Hembrug cartouche somewhere on the stock, similar to the one seen on my Cavalry Carbine shown above, a big letter "W", "Hembrug" and a year stamp. Mine's dated 1917 for the refurb, on a 1895 -dated action. Every now and again, the full-length M95 rifles show up, as well as the artillery or engineer's carbines. I also have one of the latter.

Gordon was a bit hasty. Ammo is easy to make, I do so for my two 6.5x53R rifles - one simply uses .30-40 Krag brass as the parent case. Buffalo Arms and Bertram also sell new formed brass to feed hungry 6.5x53R Dutch Mannlicher rifles if you don't feel like reforming cases yourself. The 5-round en-bloc clips, however, can be tough to find. I wound up with a few hundred in a paper bag when I bought my M95 Cavalry Carbine.

Some of the 6.5x53R Dutch Mannlichers which saw service in the Dutch East Indies during WWII were rechambered and rebored to .303 British. While the recoil of the short little Cavalry Carbine isn't prohibitive, I could only imagine how much fun that gun would be in .303 British. Eyeballing both my Cavalry Carbine and Lee-Enfield No5Mk1 Jungle Carbine, the Jungle Carbine is considerably larger than the Steyr...

Now, if you want to find a good home for that M95 Dutch Mannlicher...