And if so what do you know about it?

Is this a guessing competition?

You must have read all the information about this rifle on the Salter webpage already.
(and I know nothing more about it than what is written there).

- stu

Yes I read Joe's page, but still tells nothing of its development and original intent. No tricks or guessing games, just looking for some information.

Dan, if you look at the bottom of the page below the photos of the rifle you will see the article by Dietric Appel. I think he is still a member of the guild and is retired now. He might not mind a phone call to explain the rifle. You can however click on the photographed pages of the article and read it (if you know German - ).

where is the article?

Thank Chic I will look into it. More of an education thing than anything. I just thought it was a very unique action, and I have not seen it's military cousin which is more typical of actions from those days.

You're not not going to share the article?

Terry

What I found particularly interesting is that, as you can see on this picture (lower left - action open),



The action really looks like a precursor to the Mauser 66 - a rifle brought to market some 60-70 years later. It also locks up directly in the barrel - a feature seen on not only the Mauser 66, but on most Blaser turn bolt rifles (as well as the R93) and the Sauer 200 series, among others.

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
where is the article?

See below - I had to save the jpg files, and use a viewer allowing me to magnify them quite a bit - but maybe that is just a testimony to my old eyes...









There is also an excerpt from a book/article in English:















And another...







- mike

WOW! I love the action and the Germanic looks of those rifles. Too bad they are so coslty. Have any of you seen one for sale that was not from the Kaiser??? Love the little guns.. Excellent looking mechanics.

Interesting! A sporting rifle design obviously made at Spandau Arsenal, a German ordnance manufacturing facility, and apparently made for the kaiser. Perhaps that accounts for its' scarcity and little-known status.

Personally, I regard it as ugly as hell, despite its' obviouys high-quality execution. It looks like that stock comb would rare up and give you a helluva nosebleed, it the thing has any recoil to speak of.

The Dakoka No. 10 or their new mini-Sharps are both much more beautiful arms......

Sorry guys, I had not returned to this thread. I just did a little computer investigation to find the source of the photos and the particular rifle and the articles were posted below the thumbnail photos. It is an intersting and wonderful rifle.

I have a Krieghoff 7X57 rifle with a rear tang pop up peep sight like the one that shows in the last photos. It has a wonderful half octagon half round barrel with a full length tang and I do not have the heart to dismantel it for a rebuild without incorporating all the parts.

I keep looking at this, and wondering how they crossed a lee-speed with a mauser!!

Great painting of the Kaiser, it doesn't show or intimate his withered arm.

I know that these are calvaryboots, but should be be good snake boots too!!