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Gentlemen,
thank you for the nice comments and friendly remarks!

@ John: thank you very much for the posting of the photos, as I am lost in PC skills, did I mention this before? :-)

What can I say about the rifle? It is a 4,8kg beauty!
If she could also cook fine I would marry her (deleted before my girlfriend sees this...)
I shot two years ago some real loads in this rifle with Degol 570grs SPRN and was impressed about the grouping, all shots more or less dead center at 30 meters in 1 MOC("Minute-of-coconut").

Yesterday I tested some plinking loads with a .513"/300grs copper clad RN lead bullet from Haendler & Naterman and charges from 30 to 38grs of Trailboss.
The rifle sent 4 shots ca. 6 centimeters high and 40 millimeters apart with an accurate load of 34grs.
Recoil was soft, I think the velocity was around 400-450 meters per second (=> 1500-2000 Joules).

The handling is simple: up to the shoulder, pull the trigger, and another 13mm hole appears in the target.
Then I had to remind myself to pull the rear trigger (ok, only for the second shot, for all others I caught the principle).
It was quite simplistic and encouraging to see the holes appear in the 25meters target every time the triggers were pulled and the spring-loaded ejectors send the empty cases meters behind.

The cocking parts of the mechanism are still a bit stiff because in total only 20-30 shots were fired before I could aquire the rifle.
The closing sound is a nice solid "whonk".
The sights are a classic massive steel rear sight for 35 meters and additional folding sights for 50 and 100 meters and a big pearl front sight in red plastic.
The stock fits me very good, the metal work is better than very good and there are many more fine details which appear only after close inspection.
The rifle has only very sparse engraving, which I prefer.

As my description seems not to be sufficient the only proposal is to invite you to come over to the North of Munich/Bavaria and make yourself a picture!

One remaining question is:
Shall the wood be checkered?
I cannot control it with full power loads, but the appearance and looks without checkering are very fine!
Otherwise it is no question, if a buffalo is in the financial reach, the rifle must and will be checkered!
Your opinion?

best regards
Rolf

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