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DUGABOY1
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Re: ferlach guns
17/02/04 03:49 AM

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Did the makers in Suhl do much of this, also? I had a pre war Merkel sidelock drilling that had the exact same action as my Charles Daly, that has the same action as my Sauer.

Suhl, is a city in east Germany, and when the Russians took over there, they shipped all the best machinest equipment to Russia to their defense plants. This left, the poor makers of firearms in Suhl to do a lot of "MAKE DO" work! The names of all the makers in Suhl, were crammed together, under the name SIMPSON, with the exception of Sauer. Sauer, workers escaped into west Germany, and started a new small plant, makeing very cheap, though quality guns in West Germany. The Churchill was most likely made by Sauer. All this is confuseing because they all were made on the same format on both sides of the wall. Later SIMPSON made most of the best firearms under their own name, and assigned the substandard work to the old names like Merkel, and others! All these names were embargoed for import into the USA, till the wall fell.

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The other thing I like is the ability to press down on the rifle cocking lever...pull its trigger, and slowly bring it back up, releasing the spring slowly and uncocking the rifle.

This is a good feature,on a drilling, and is common to most side, and bottom lever cocked rifle barrel drillings. I had a drilling with no name on it, that I think was a Simpson,(READ cold war MERKEL) that had the tang safety, and what looked like a Greener side safety, or barrel selector, which was actually a barred feature blocking the tang safety from being accedently disengaged. I have several Westley Richards doubles that are fitted with barred safeties, but the lever is on top, in front of the tang safety.

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Also, do you know who made the Eduard Kettner guns prior to WWII? I can't find any source of information, and when I write Kettner now, they reply with "where do you want your catalog sent?"

As far as I know Kettner made them, but I have only owned one Kettner double rifle in my life, an 8X57JR. It was a nice rifle, but I simply do not know much about the name's history!

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
ferlach guns	chrispie	15/02/04 02:28 AM
Re: ferlach guns	DUGABOY1	15/02/04 07:20 AM
Re: ferlach guns	luv2safari	15/02/04 05:46 PM
Re: ferlach guns	DUGABOY1	16/02/04 05:13 AM
Re: ferlach guns	luv2safari	16/02/04 10:55 AM
Re: ferlach guns	DUGABOY1	17/02/04 03:49 AM
Re: ferlach guns	chrispie	15/02/04 08:09 AM
Re: ferlach guns	luv2safari	15/02/04 03:03 AM
Re: ferlach guns	475Guy	15/02/04 04:34 AM

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