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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #346406 - 01/11/20 11:57 PM

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must be britisch








Or Australian with the rabbits and also the clothes.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #346951 - 19/11/20 05:36 AM

looks german



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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #346960 - 19/11/20 05:01 PM

Ja, das stimmt,. Wunderbar.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #350386 - 15/02/21 10:19 PM

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looks german






Without those pipes, meerschaums?, and the feathers on the hats, it could almost be my Barossa ancestors. The coats might be a bit different as well with some Aust Army great coats.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: Louis]
      #350395 - 16/02/21 04:50 AM

I love these old pics! I also take special note that the gentlemen are properly dressed. Most are wearing ties! Theres none of todays sloppiness. No mixed camouflage patterns, no t-shirts. no bib overalls without shirts. These are gentlemen doing a gentleman task and dressed as gentlemen!

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: EDELWEISS]
      #350398 - 16/02/21 05:25 AM

Don't know if they are meerschaums or not. It does darken with age and smoking. Could very well be. German or Austrian.
Looks like some central fire and pin fire guns.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: DarylS]
      #350429 - 17/02/21 05:06 AM

thats right, at least the two I have marked are pinfire double guns



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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #353457 - 16/05/21 04:13 PM



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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #353459 - 16/05/21 06:56 PM

Really nice moose; the proud hunter has a familiar face to me.
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Re: european vintage pics [Re: Louis]
      #353460 - 16/05/21 07:05 PM

Nice moose, that's right, but the caliber of the rifle seems a little small to me.

I don't know if he shot the moose in an open area. He sometimes did things like that.


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Re: european vintage pics [Re: grandveneur]
      #353461 - 16/05/21 08:56 PM

its allways said 8x75RS in a Bockdoppel was his favorite caliber and he had shoot also the now forgotten rimless version the 8x75S.
it could be

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #353471 - 16/05/21 11:35 PM

Where would the moose/alg/elg have been shot? Finland? ?

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: NitroX]
      #353479 - 17/05/21 01:16 AM

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Where would the moose/alg/elg have been shot? Finland? ?



northern East Prussia, now the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast! It had a small but healthy Elch/moose population in the 1930s.


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Re: european vintage pics [Re: kuduae]
      #353482 - 17/05/21 02:28 AM

6.5's work very well on moose with suitable bullets. The rifle appears to have a larger bore than that.
Hard to say.
Nice little moose.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: DarylS]
      #353493 - 17/05/21 07:58 AM

Maybe it's this one?

Jon Speed in ORIGINAL OBERNDORF SPORTING RIFLES shows a picture of:

"Double Square Bridge Magnum Mauser with 6x scope attached, made up in a 9.3x70mm wildcat cartridge based on a necked-down 10.75x73 mm (.404) case by Berlin gunsmith Ludwig Schiwy, expressly to order for Reichsmarschall Herman Göring. Note the front scope base bypasses the square receiver ring, in favour of a mount on the barrel shank".

Double triggers, adjustable cheekpiece, long barrel {26", 28"?} with sling swivel on the barrel. Family crest engraved on the magazine floorplate.

Not a fan of the man but his taste in this rifle is right on the money. Very workmanlike but tastefully done. Really a fine hunting rifle.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: kuduae]
      #353514 - 17/05/21 09:11 PM

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Where would the moose/alg/elg have been shot? Finland? ?



northern East Prussia, now the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast! It had a small but healthy Elch/moose population in the 1930s.




Thanks. East Prussia, makes sense, but was not aware of Elch - I assume is the German name for moose, I'll add it to my vocabulary - in East Prussia.

Some of my ancestors may have come from the region.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: NitroX]
      #353524 - 18/05/21 05:20 AM

east prussia before the war had an excellent elch stock. the sharpe selecting produced probably more good bulls that the other countrys around had then.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #353526 - 18/05/21 06:14 AM

My wife's family were all Ostpreussisch. Came over before WW1, between WW1 & 2 and then the last of them after WW2. The story is the first thing the men did was buy rifles and a hunting license plus for one Tante who became known for making the boys a good feed for breakfast and heading out after doing the dishes whereupon she shot her deer and had it hanging on the game pole before they all got back for lunch!

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: 9.3x57]
      #353540 - 18/05/21 04:36 PM

Good Lady; one could make a success book or film with such a family history!
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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #353544 - 18/05/21 05:36 PM

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east prussia before the war had an excellent elch stock. the sharpe selecting produced probably more good bulls that the other countrys around had then.




No doubt if the Elch herd was managed for trophy quality. As pretty much all of Norway, Sweden and Finland are meat hunter lands, a trophy is more of a chance than planning.

Having said that, when hunting wtth ErikD the second time, I did see and have an opportunity at a very good trophy bull moose. Had to count its tines, and then recount, it took a step or two and disappeared. Now I would just shoot it instantly and forget about counting its tines. Uwe, a young hunter may have shot the same bull moose the next year, and it was his first moose I believe. Magnificent trophy, the best in the region for a long time I believe. Good for him, well done. Damn I should have shot it the year before. Christian would have hated me, he had to let it walk past him, as in Norwegian the hunters had all been told to stop shooting. Not understanding Norwegian I was under no such restrictions ... Damnation !!!!

Sville/Staffan on these forums, busy nowadays not shooting or hunting much, and instead long distance skiing and stuff, had a good number of excellent moose trophies in his house. Not from his home area but from an area he had lived in the past. I want to hunt there!

BUT as these areas are all meat hunter areas, a trophy is not very common.

My one and only moose was a bull with a tine and a tine and a half! But good meat.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: NitroX]
      #355085 - 11/07/21 04:37 AM

the grand duke of mecklenburg around 1900, pic was made in gmunden austria and he is in a alpine costume



notice the small bore double rifle, maybe a best quality hunting gun -
not for chamois hunting but for driven reed deer,imho.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: lancaster]
      #355100 - 12/07/21 01:17 PM

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the grand duke of mecklenburg around 1900, pic was made in gmunden austria and he is in a alpine costume



notice the small bore double rifle, maybe a best quality hunting gun -
not for chamois hunting but for driven reed deer,imho.




Something we don't do much these days, formal hunting pose portraits. Dress in appropriate clothes, carry the appropriate firearm and accountrements. The old fashioned photograph studio screen behind. Looks good.

Something perhaps we should do again today. A vintage look. And portrait photogrpahs for posterity. A portrait for the wall, and emailed images to friends.

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A reason we don't do this now, is photography has become so easy. So we take easy unplanned photographs and portraits. The well planned and thought out portraits for such an image have disappeared. Portrait photography of course still exists, for weddings, for pttty girls spending money for well organised images, models and the like.

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: NitroX]
      #355103 - 12/07/21 02:35 PM

Worth remembering that those vintage photos, although formal, were contemporary at the time. ...and we appreciate them for that!

Its great to dress formally for photos occasionally, and the vintage look is simply marvelous.
But I chuckle at the thought of future "students of hunting" viewing photos of us in full commercial Mossy-Oak-style camo, or in the tropics, rugby shorts and T-shirt, saying "Check out these vintage hunting photos, how quaint!"

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: Marrakai]
      #355104 - 12/07/21 03:16 PM

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were contemporary at the time. ...

But I chuckle at the thought of future "students of hunting" viewing photos of us in full commercial Mossy-Oak-style camo, or in the tropics, rugby shorts and T-shirt, saying "Check out these vintage hunting photos, how quaint!"




I dread to think of the future ...



Credit for image: Lancaster

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Re: european vintage pics [Re: NitroX]
      #355159 - 15/07/21 05:19 AM

germany






because of the reindeer and the mosin rifle on the wall I would say Finland




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