patches
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I am looking forsome help with a rifle that I have got. After checking around it seems this is something of a mystery as to it being built. What I have is a Walter Uhlig Halle A/E 8 X60 over under rifle. If anyone can tell me something about this gun I would appreciate it. I do know that it came from Germany around 1915-1930, at least this is what I have been able to find.
Thanks for any help, Patches
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Buchsemann
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Patches,
If you have pictures of your gun please use the included link to get directions on how to post them on NE, then post your pictures along with your previous text (above) but this time post under "Double Rifles" or "Double Rifle Photos & Archive". This will hopefully draw more attention to your inquiry from the group along with some helpful information about your gun.
http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=152577&an=0&page=0#Post152577
Regards,
Buchseman
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He who can call today his own:
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Sikahunter
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Patches
One of the first doubles I owned is a Walter Uhlig O/U 8x60JR serial #3225 made in July 1936 I do believe. I purchased it about 1976. Not certain that I could really afford it at the time. The beginning of my DR addiction. It has a factory claw mounted Ebra 6x, 3 piece forearm, game scene engraving, horn trigger guard. Over the last 35 years, my tastes have changed from O/U to SxS. That being said, I have kept this one O/U and take it out on occasion for a walk in the woods.
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trmungle
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Loc: Juneau Alaska
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My 9.3x74 double rifle drilling was made by Uhlig in 1941
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herrdoktor
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Loc: Spain
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Photos, please, all of you.
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kuduae
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Loc: middle of Germany
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First, on German guns the men whose addresses are inscribed on the barrels or ribs are usually not the makers, but the retailers. Nearly all "gunmakers" outside Suhl or Zella-Mehlis had "Their" guns made to their specifications by the specialized guntrade in those two towns. Often such guns were actually made there by quite renowned gunmakers. FI many fine double rifles show the small stamp "Bemesu" on the inside, these were made by Bernhard Merkel. Most "Wilhelm Brenneke, Leipzig" rifles bear an "ESHA" stamp in hidden places, as Brenneke had these rifles made by Schmidt & Habermann, Suhl. Close inspection of the proofmarks and other small stamps (photos please!) sometimes lead to the real maker. This applies to Walther Uhlig, Leipziger Str. 27, Halle on Saale, too. The company was registered as "dealers and makers in ammunition, firearms and hunting equipment". Walther and Max Uhlig took over the shop from Richard Schroeder about 1900. At first they called themselves "Richard Schroeder Nachf." = successors to R.S. By 1913 Uhlig traded traded under his own name. He had large amounts of shotgun cartridges, headstamped "12 W.UHLG 12 HALLE" made by the Sellier&Bellot, Bomlitz factory and sold them under his own trademark "HALLORIA". By 1923 the company was in severe difficulties, as a Hermann Hans Hunold, gunsmith, was installed by court as Sequester. By 1925 the company was owned by a R. Steinmetz and traded as "W. Uhlig Nachfolger, dealers and makers of ammunition". Apparently the company lasted until WW2.
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