doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Along the lines of Michael's gun show topic??

I'm going to stay out of this for a while, you guys are doing just fine and I enjoy the reasoning behind the answers.

Regarding the gap, I suspect, but don't know that the magazine may have dropped down a bit when the picture was taken. I have been working on restoring a Wundhammer and had to fit new bottom metal. Wundhammer fitted it so tight that I had to knock it out with a nylon punch and hammer from the top. He inletted the metal proud then rounded it off to the wood. I could not do that and was afraid of breaking something so I relieved the wood a touch so I could get the metal in and out, about a hundred times. After almost a hundred years the wood could have shrunk up some as well. I am not saying this rifle is a Wundhammer.

I never did figure out the significance of this number on the barrel underside.

I notice you say the action is from 1910 but the bolt handle looks swept back. Is that the original bolt and has it been altered (other than the checkering which is in the same area as the bolt checkering on the first Wundhammer Springfields) or is it a high number replacement?

Jerry Liles

Correction: I believe the barrel is dated 1910 and the receiver 1911. There is half of a zero showing beneath the front ramp and the other numbers are covered. So, either 1910 or 1920, I'm just guessing on that point. Serial number is 473982 and it is fitted with a nickel steel bolt which would have come along later?Date?

My only Wundhammer, a Krag, has raised uncheckered side panels in Sauer Mauser style, and the inletting (as best I recall, had it out of the stock a few years ago and don't plan to remove it again) was by dozens of tiny chisel scoops, not the bigger and smoother cuts shown here.

That is one thing I noticed about the Wundhammer pictured here. His cuts don't seem as smooth.

GrandView had it right all long, Fred Adolph.

Maybe MP will tell us what he saw....good training for the eye.

Art

Michael would certainly have a more knowledgeable reason for identifying it. I was going by the shape of the cheekpiece, schnabble, and comb nose. Also the checkered action panels.....although I'm more familiar with his carving in that area.

It's a good looking rifle.

Not to be flip about it but it looks like just like an Adolph ;-). Fred Adolph did not like to make the same rifle over and over so it's rare when you can find one right out of his catalog. I must have somewhere over fifty pictures of rifles I know are Fred Adolph's work and with time I could take each thing about this rifle and show you another Adolph with that feature.

I did not notice before JDS said something but the rear barrel sight is in backwards, are the leafs numbered? A man I know was recently hunting in Africa with his son who had just shot a Cape Buffalo with a classic rifle and after the first shot the sight folded down.

The leaves are not numbered....curious. These are hard to flip up like they were never used.

Not sure you can make out the same sight on this Adolph, I'll try to find a close-up.