In the 50's the owner of the gun shop I worked at used M-S rifles for deer hunting.  He and his wife packed into the high Sierras every year.  They both used a 1903 6.5x54 Mannlichers.  He also had a 1910 9.5x57.  If I remember correctly, the 1903 guns weighed less than 6 pounds with 18" barrels.  They didn't use scopes.  When they weren't hunting the guns were in the store.  I spent many an hour handling those guns in the store.  I thought they were cool back then.  The owner of the store had Hensoldt binoculars and scopes.  The scopes had a vertical post with one horizontal cross wire.  Wonderful stuff for a teenage kid.    

Oh boy, a 20ga S-56E.  In about 1962/63 I was working in Elkhart, Indiana and there was a gun store there that had a bunch of Berretta 56E shotguns.  I wanted a 20ga 56e so bad but never got one.  Have wanted one all my life but it just never happened.    

Frank