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I'm J.L. Thompson, I was sent here by some people from guns and ammo forums. I bought a rifle that was made by a German maker, Joh Specht from Bautzen in March 1912, it is (from a cast) a 5.6X35 Rmm Vierling cal. I would like to find out as much as possible about this rifle. Below is the discription I gave on G&A forum, I have photos but have had trouble posting them (will try here). Wile doing the ballistics casting I found a photo of a similar rifle in Cartridges of the World 11, page 414 under the vierling discription. Any help would be appreciated.
OK here goes (please keep in mind I can't spell); this is a single shot rifle the lever to open the breech is in the trigger guard. It has a double set trigger fully adjustible W/ thumb set safety on the spine. Octagon barrel with dovetails cut for front and rear sights that have been removed and a Weaver KV scope poorly mounted with Edfield mounts (leather scope covers). under the barrel it's stampped 7.6 mm, 3.12, 550, the craftsman marks appear to be three crowns (circles with a star in the center and a cross on top) one with an F below one with a G and one with a U. the serial # is 18607 below that is a SS and below that is 362. It has a cheek rest on the stock with a trap door cover that holds 4 shells. the recever, trigger guard and trap door are hand engraved right down to the screw heads and the barrel is engraved with what looks like a rope where it meets the recever and the top of the barrel has what I can only discribe as tightly packed wavy lines frount to back side to side of the flat. also the release lever for the hand guard is also engraved even though it's recessed 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. Oh also the stock has a checkered grip. Will this help?
THANKS
J.L.
SORRY can't get photos to download.
OK here goes (please keep in mind I can't spell); this is a single shot rifle the lever to open the breech is in the trigger guard. It has a double set trigger fully adjustible W/ thumb set safety on the spine. Octagon barrel with dovetails cut for front and rear sights that have been removed and a Weaver KV scope poorly mounted with Edfield mounts (leather scope covers). under the barrel it's stampped 7.6 mm, 3.12, 550, the craftsman marks appear to be three crowns (circles with a star in the center and a cross on top) one with an F below one with a G and one with a U. the serial # is 18607 below that is a SS and below that is 362. It has a cheek rest on the stock with a trap door cover that holds 4 shells. the recever, trigger guard and trap door are hand engraved right down to the screw heads and the barrel is engraved with what looks like a rope where it meets the recever and the top of the barrel has what I can only discribe as tightly packed wavy lines frount to back side to side of the flat. also the release lever for the hand guard is also engraved even though it's recessed 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch. Oh also the stock has a checkered grip. Will this help?
THANKS
J.L.
SORRY can't get photos to download.