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- The "typical multi-leaf folding sight" of your rifle is not Sequoia-specific; it is in fact a rear sight option offered to clients on all high-velocity models; Rothhammer has posted many old Stoeger catalogs’ pages referring to these options.

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High Velocity', Stoeger 1939



Steyr, 1936


Actually, what Paradox wrote was; "It does NOT have the Sequoia reference on the barrel, but does have the typical multi leaf folding sight."

As you've pointed out, however, the three leaf 'express sight' is more typical of the 'M1925' or 'High Velocity' than of the M1924 which are often found the two leaf sight.

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How did the " 1925"/" High Velocity" Model designation come about?...catalogue description??

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The “High Velocity” monicker was not invented by Stoeger. It appears in the 1929 english language catalog of the Steyr – Werke AG. In contemporary Austrian German they called it “Hochrasanz – Repetierstutzen”, as did Burgsmueller, Kreiensen, in their about 1930 catalog. The also 1930 A.Frank, Hamburg, export catalog called it “Hochrasanz – Büchse” in German and “Repeating rifle for high velocity cartridges” in English. “Rasance” was originally a French artillery term for flatness of trajectory, but was used for bullet velocity later. So “Hochrasanz” was used for “High Velocity”.

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Thank you for that, Herr Eichendorff.

I have long been unsure whether or not Stoeger actually had devised the 'High Velocity' name, and have perpetuated error in that regard.
'Tis better to know than to assume.


Thank you for pointing out that Steyr had listed the 'High Velocity' in an English Language 1929 catalogue, prior to Stoeger having listed same.

Though the Stoeger catalog of 1931 offered MS in "The U.S. Cartridge of 1906" (.30-'06), it does not list it by the M1924 designation (as they also did not with the M1903, 1905, 1908, 1910) and does not yet list the 'High Velocity' offerings.


Stoeger, 1931



Paradox - If yours turns out to be the highest numbered M1924 known, I'll suggest a title for you to write about it - 'The Last Sequoia' .

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Though the Stoeger catalog of 1931 offered MS in "The U.S. Cartridge of 1906" (.30-'06), it does not list it by the M1924 designation (as they also did not the M1903, 1905, 1908, 1910) and does not yet list the 'High Velocity' offerings.

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Of course Stoeger offered the High velocity model in .30-06 only. Why offer anything no one is likely to buy?

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In 1931 Stoeger offered the MS 'High Velocity' in "the U.S. 1906 Cartridge" as well as previous models in the 6.5X54, 8X56, 9X56, 9.5X57 chamberings.

By 1939, the 'High Velocity' offerings of 7X57, 7X64, 8X60, 9.3X62, and 10.75X68 had been added.


Stoeger, 1939

It was Sequoia Importing Co. that had advertised the MS only in .30-'06 chambering.

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