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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #323011 - 05/01/19 06:46 AM

https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-f...un_id=101126446




































"Marked W Hanau IN GERA". Very nicely done little gun. 13-1/2" bbl to the breech which opens with a fancy engraved forward facing side lever. The breech area, upper and lower tangs, triggerguard and buttplate are also scroll engraved. Metal is a pleasing soft gray patina coloration. Fancy stock has a schnabel forend, checkered wrist and fancy carved cheekpiece. Delicate rigid sights, bore is approximately 7MM. Most orig lacquer remains on deluxe grade walnut."

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #323014 - 05/01/19 08:07 AM

OK Lancaster you've got me beat here!
How does it operate/load etc?????


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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: 93x64mm]
      #336399 - 10/01/20 05:34 AM

Doersch & V. Baumgarten (probably 9,5 mm) needle fire stalking rilfe












https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/britishmilitariaforums/dreyse-t24852.html

know another one with half stock

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #336409 - 10/01/20 02:18 PM

Yes- we know how the bolt actioned needle fire guns work, but, how does the rifle of this thread work?
I see no place a needle fire ctg. could be inserted - only a hole in a rotating drum, as if for a round ball or perhaps ball and small powder ctg.
The stock, sights and trigger guard on that needlfire gun are very similar to the model 71 sporter I have.

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: DarylS]
      #336416 - 11/01/20 03:38 AM

Daryl, its not easy to visualise the Doersch & von Baumgarten rifle but be aware this is a common bolt action. you release the main spring than open the bolt like any other and load a paper cartridge. before firing you cock the action by hand so its a modern "safety rifle".
another hunting rifle of the same model I know was later rechambered for the 9,5x47R only be rebore the chamber and change the needle against a firing pin.

Doersch was working for Dreyse before he was going to Suhl to become a master gunmaker there and work on his own. iirc, his bolt action design originated from 1859/60.


http://www.littlegun.info/arme%20allemande/artisan%20c%20d/a%20doersch%20et%20baumgarten%20gb.htm

and here








https://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?169793-Needle-Rifles&p=9370707&styleid=7

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #336417 - 11/01/20 05:08 AM

Tks, but - I was referring to the first one, with the rotating drum. There have been air rifles, like that, with a rotating drum/chamber.

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"Yes- we know how the bolt actioned needle fire guns work, but, how does the rifle of this thread work?
I see no place a needle fire ctg. could be inserted - only a hole in a rotating drum, as if for a round ball or perhaps ball and small powder ctg."




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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: DarylS]
      #336419 - 11/01/20 05:24 AM

yes understand, its a very short chamber shooting a paper cartridge - copy of the Dreyse Lady's rifle

look here http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat....true#Post275004

and you are right some airgun have such a rotating chamber to bring the bullet into the barrel. the early airgun history is not yet writen but one of the Dreyse airguns had exactly this rotating chamber taken from the older needle fire Lady's rifle to load the round ball.


could be this element came over this step into airgun design.

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #338829 - 09/03/20 01:48 AM

Needlefire S/S shotgun Bastin Freres - Hermalle, calibre 16,











68,5 cm browned twist Damascus barrels, concave rib, ivory bead, toggle link action type Montigny inscribed with maker's name and type, trigger guard in French style, in front of that a manual cocking lever, well grained walnut half-stock in the style of contemporary percussion guns, ramrod, as the action has no means of extracting the self consuming paper cartridges, double triggers, sloping cheekpiece, steel buttplate 35,5 cm, fore-end with wedge fastener, year of manufacture around 1840, right needle broken, early breech loader, a similar gun with the same action type can be seen in the gunmaker's museum of St. Etienne, expertly restored to condition III. https://auctions.springer-vienna.com/en/...;currentpos=255

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #338832 - 09/03/20 02:05 AM

looks like the copy of an early Teschner double gun, surprising from france
https://auctions.springer-vienna.com/de/...;currentpos=223







S/S shotgun L. Francois - Paris, 12/65,79 cm barrels of brushed fine rose Damascus, concave rib, inscribed "L. Francois à Paris", bright rounded action engraved with bold foliate scroll, sliding / tilting action type Collath, rotating lever beneath the fore-end, on the right rotating safety on the fence, double triggers, carved horn-finger rest, walnut stock, sloping cheekpiece, steel buttplate 36 cm, sling swivels, year of manufacture about 1890, action and wood to metal fit slightly loose, stock with old repairs, condition III.

... and no, its much older

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #338844 - 09/03/20 03:41 AM

Amazing guns, these needle rife rifles & shotguns.

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #339406 - 26/03/20 06:43 AM

in the next springer's auction https://auctions.springer-vienna.com/en/...;currentpos=224

78 cm barrels of browned twist Damascus, concave rib, inscribed with maker's name, silver inlaid monogram and ribbons on the breech ends, fences inscribed "Martins's Patent", bright rounded action engraved with bold foliate scroll, a red stag on the tang and partridges on the trigger guard, sliding / tilting action similar to Collath, opening lever beneath the fore-end with horn handle, sliding safety in trigger guard, double triggers, horn finger rest (slightly damaged), walnut stock, sloping cheekpiece, behind that a carved falcon in a heart, steel buttplate 35 cm, sling swivels, year of manufacture about 1870, hand cracked on the right near the triggers,
















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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #339635 - 01/04/20 06:02 AM

nice 16 ga Leue&Timpe gun sold by E. Blancke in Naumburg a/ S
https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjul...game-gun-42229/





















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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #339720 - 03/04/20 04:49 AM

copy of a dreyse lady's rifle but with a bolt action, probably suhl made
https://egun.de/market/item.php?id=8238759

























and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXQHOg_6Xs

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #344271 - 11/08/20 11:24 PM

never see a needle fire rifle like this before https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=9652749

would say it was made for target shooting, Henlein was the maker /inventor?









































not a needle fire anymore but build with a Leue&Timpe action and this is connection enough to end here: double rifle in 9,3x57R 360 build by Emil Barthelemes in Zella Mehlis for Gebert /München

https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=9644603














































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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #344740 - 02/09/20 04:25 PM

for the archive: the double rifle sold for 5330 euro what is astounding for a black powder class vintage double

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #348668 - 30/12/20 09:11 PM

a later Haetge/Berlin double rifle, no caliber given but 11,15x60R is the most common for this rifles
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/m...9-c-ywerj9k6hx#








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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #354321 - 13/06/21 06:05 PM

original a needle fire shotgun this was later changed for 20/65 center fire ammo
'E. Lönzner Flensborg' https://www.lauritz.com/de/auktion/zuendnadelgewehr-kal-20-mm/i6036911/



















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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #356160 - 19/08/21 05:44 AM

6,5 mm needle fire target rifle,'Czepek in M-Zell
https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/7315138/#







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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #357740 - 31/10/21 02:08 AM

E.Mockel in Leipzig "14 ga" https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/i...41-c-de344e7960











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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #357747 - 31/10/21 08:14 AM

Amazing engraving, absolutely wonderful pictures Lancaster

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: 93x64mm]
      #357750 - 31/10/21 11:03 AM

Yes - they certainly are indeed.
I can only assume that needle fire guns were were much more prolific and longer-lived in Europe,
than for example in the USA, Canada, Australia or England.

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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #362060 - 16/02/22 06:01 AM

7 mm needle fire target rifle LEUTHEUSER in GRATZ
https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=14697983











only the barreled action of a needle fire stalking rifle, A. JUNG IN WIEN, 14,8 mm
https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=14699819













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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #362064 - 16/02/22 08:06 AM

History, marvellous isn't it!
Thank you Lancaster for showing these, at least they're not forgotten examples of where we've been as hunters.


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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: 93x64mm]
      #364878 - 25/04/22 04:53 AM

maybe a Leue&Timpe sold by Kohnke/Brehmen , unique engraving, 10 ga https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-f...un_id=101883745















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Re: Berger needle fire/Fürst Pless gun [Re: lancaster]
      #369775 - 02/10/22 11:11 PM

Dörsch &v.Baumgarten needle fire stalking rifle 11,5 mm caliber, https://auctionet.com/de/2339003-tandnal...images#image_14





























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