| fuhrmann |
| (.333 member) |
| 06/03/08 03:18 AM |
Re: nice vintage 8 bore; INTENDED USE
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The germans and austrian often build unusual an "strange" guns when they attend their masterletter as an gunsmith. But they are still building hammer singles,drillings,fierlings and funflings today but probably an 10 bore would only be built after order. They have a realy long tradition building the stranges guns, just check out the Karl Hauptman guns att holts. And they are almost ordinary rifles in germany, that will say when you got the money to by from a gunsmith.
Even today great gunsmiths in Austria make a living by building "oldfashioned" guns.
But they are often chambered for the most modern cartridges!
That's what the wealthy customer wants.
So, a masterpiece or an exhibition piece will probably not be done in an oldfashioned or obsolete caliber.
Fuhrmann