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Re: Austrian single shot rifle
      14/12/12 04:20 AM

About horn nose caps and that Austrian "Ischl style":

"Die Bezeichnung "Ischler Stutzen" ist die Sammelbezeichnung für die legendären, einschüssigen Hahn-Pirschbüchsen, die Kaiser Franz Joseph I. benützte. Das Wort "Ischler" bezog sich auf den in Bad Ischl arbeitenden Büchsenmacher Wolfgang Leithner, das Wort "stutzen" auf eine kurzläufige "gestutzte" Büchse mit einer Lauflänge von(50) 55-60 cm. Die eleganten Jagdgewehre waren ganz geschäftet, mit einer Hirschrose an der Laufmündung bei den älteren Konstruktionen. Bis in die sechziger Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts waren es großkalibrige Perkussionsgewehre mit Kupferzündhütchen zum Abfeuern von Bleigeschoßen und später, in der Konstruktion des Lancaster-Gewehres, mit Zentralzündung und Kaliber 8 mm für Halbstahlmantel-Geschoße."

Source: http://wwwg.uni-klu.ac.at/kultdoku/kataloge/03/html/333.htm

Translation: "Ischler Stutzen" is the collective term for the legendary single shot hammer stalking rifles that were used by emperor Franz Joseph I. The word "Ischler" related to the gunmaker Wolfgang Leithner working in Bad Ischl, the word "stutzen" to a short barrelled rifle with a barrel of (50) 55-60 cm. The elegant hunting rifles had a full stock, with a stag rosette at the muzzle in the older types. Until the 60s of the 19th century these were large caliber percussion rifles for copper primers, for shooting lead bullets and later, in the construction of Lancaster rifles, with central primer and caliber 8 mm for jacketed bullets.."

Leithner was working from ca. 1850 to 1880, and indeed he had his special syle, often using an ornate trigger guard resembling those found on wheellock rifles and early flintlocks, and plenty of stag horn, not only in the nose cap, but also for ramrod thimbles or in the patchbox cover - maybe because this goes so well with the stag horn buttons on your Loden coat and Lederhosen?? Anyway, it seems he created a fashion!

Here are some links to examples of Leithner's work - sorry for the inconvenience, I do not know how to extract the pictures and post them here:

http://www.dorotheum.com/auktion-detail/...ionsbuchse.html

http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/...;db=kat63_s.txt

http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/...;db=kat52_S.txt

http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/...;db=kat65_s.txt


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