And if you have the slightest interest in similar sporting weapons from a similar period, albeit from the end of the 2nd Major Disagreement in Europe while the treatment wasn't any less severe in some instances. Purportedly, the Russian would hold the German mechanics in a cellar & beat them with a rubber hose @ least once a week just for good measure.....

>>Very unique, and I for one would say rare, Ferlacher by Boštjan Borovnik. When the Germans invaded Austria in the Spring of 1938(March I think), they tried to force Ferlach makers to hire German mechanics. Boštjan Borovnik refused & refused being loyal to his roots and he received beating after beating until 1942 when the occupying Germans decided that Boštjan Borovnik wasn't going to break so they rounded up he, his son & to other kids along with his wife & sent them to a Work Camp. The occupying Brits released him in early 1945 and by July Boštjan Borovnik and his family was back in Ferlach where he, and his son, filed for reparations. His son was attending the Ferlacher Gunsmith School when they were rounded up & he filed and received some type of compenstation. Boštjan Borovnik lived till 1949 and this longarm was completed in 1946 for a British Officer, who would have purchased this @ a Collection / Selling Point in the centre of Ferlach.<<

https://www.doublegunshop.com/forum...ords=borovnik&Search=true#Post647776

Yes, I thoroughly enjoy the above smokepole & will press it into use very soon....

Serbus,

Raimey
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