KCSO
05-17-2010, 12:45 PM
Well I am about 90% done with a project gun and yesterday we shot the drilling. This is a German made gun from about 1900 and was 16x16 2 1/2 with an 8MM Styer drilling rifle barrel. Well 8MM Styer is no more but the chamber did clean up to 32-40. The barrel was OLD 8MM with 321 grooves so a cast 323 170 grain 8mm bullet works just fine and over a case full of Trail Boss it shoots dead center. Since I load for a Husky 16 I had plenty of 16 Ga 2 1/2" shells and the shotgun patterns full and full well centered with the right ammo. The whole gun weighs in at 7.5 pounds and it has hammers and a barrel selector switch that flips up the rear sight, plus a concealed folding peep in the tang.
I had to re work the locks, triggers and the flip up sight lever and make new firing pins, but it was worth it. The owner will have about $650 in the gun as when he bought it it was not functional. Reapirs were as much as the gun. Boy until you have disassembled a multi lever german set trigger and stoned and polished it you havent lived. Now with the trigger set the pull runs from 1 1/2 pounds to 8 ounces. It will be most interesting to see how the gun handles lighter bullets as we are hoping to get some 32-20 type loads for turkey hunting.
I had to re work the locks, triggers and the flip up sight lever and make new firing pins, but it was worth it. The owner will have about $650 in the gun as when he bought it it was not functional. Reapirs were as much as the gun. Boy until you have disassembled a multi lever german set trigger and stoned and polished it you havent lived. Now with the trigger set the pull runs from 1 1/2 pounds to 8 ounces. It will be most interesting to see how the gun handles lighter bullets as we are hoping to get some 32-20 type loads for turkey hunting.