Mike,
The University I attended in 1969-70 was in Freiburg, which was blessed with two shooting clubs, one with a skeet and trap field and a 50 meter running boar set-up, and the other with a 50 meter smallbore range with automatic target return and an Olympic Rapid Fire Pistol range. I belonged to both and thought I had died and gone to heaven. I could shoot skeet with my Perazzi Skeet 1, running boar with my BRNO 602 .375 H&H, smallbore three position with my Anschütz 1407 and rapid fire pistol with my Walther OSP.
The local gun store just sold me the guns and since I was an American, for some reason I didn't need a Waffenerwerbschein (firearm license). I just shot them, took the BRNO to Bulgaria for driven boar, and at the end of my stay turned them back in to the store and had them shipped to my gunsmith in Tennessee. However, both the Perazzi and the BRNO came from Waffen-Frankonia in Würzburg, and the 602 was modified to my specifications, with the barrel shortened to 22" from 26" and re-crowned, and the front sight relocated.
I also ordered my Krieghoff Teck O/U double rifle, .458 WM, with interchangeable barrels in .375 H&H and 20 gauge/76mm through them, and they shipped it along to me when it arrived in the spring of 1971, just in time for my first safari in October.
Quite a far cry from the mound of paperwork required at both ends now!
Bill Warren
