CHN Kettner is like our Cabelas. They are retailers not makers. Very interesting stores with lots of very nice stuff.
Mike, your point is well taken, but has the company Kettner always been like Cabelas? The action is dated by Frank DeHaas as circa 1920-25.
A lot of old gunsmithing firms both large and small had to expand their shops stock to accomodate shooting accessories, fishing tackle, sports clothing for the shooter/fisherman. Then somewhere along the way gunsmithing lost out. A lot of German sporting arms companies went to the wall during or after WW2.
I suppose there wasn't a great demand for sporting rifles in the immediate aftermath. Any surviving Gunsmiths may have had to diversify in order to survive.
Harry
