Ford:

Just seeing if you are paying attention. Yes, the rifle is stamped 5,6X61R but about 20+ years ago someone proffered me several boxes of the aforementioned 5,6X57R thinking those would bridge the gap in a Vom Hofe and those were the brass for which I was searching for but do not fit in well with what I am trying to do. How difficult it is to put a Rim on a Rimless??? I am quite confident I have a handful of 5,6X61R laying about somewhere plus I still need to order some of the bullets you posted & referenced.


Anyway, this copied text from an ancient post by Axel E. go a long way in explaining just why Chr. Funk is purported to have made all but one of the Vom Hofe chambered weapons. Remember, eons ago, Thieme & Schlegelmilch(Nimrod Gewehrfabrik Mitbegründer des Römerwerkes in 1888) as a founding partner in of the formidable shop and heavy lifter Römerwerk/Röhmerwerke by Jacob Romer / Rohmer. By 1900 Ernst Schlegelmilch was @ the helm & then by 1930 Ernst Schlegelmilch sold the concern to Alfred Funk who had Ernst Funk as a partner or something. Ernst Funk pulled up stakes by 1936, and I think everything was dissolved, but Alfred Funk pressed on filling orders with the two compagnies..... Wild & Rampant Speculation mind you.

>>You should read Peter Ravn Lund's book "Christoph Funk - Gewehrfabrik Suhl"(available from the GGCA bookstore), pages 28 - 29. Thieme & Schlegelmilch was not simply "absorbed" by Chr.Funk, the story is a bit more complicated. It is important to add Chr. to the Funk name, as there were no less than 38 Funks active at one time or another in the Suhl and Zella-Mehlis area. The Chr. Funk company in 1934 was owned by Ernst Funk. Ernst's oldest son, Alfred Christoph Funk bought Thieme & Schlegelmilch on February 1, 1934, but ran it as a separate business. In 1937 A.C.F. moved the T&S shop to his father's factory premises at Gothaer Strasse 18. From then on both "Chr.Funk" and "Nimrod" guns were made by the same men in the same factory to the same designs, but were signed and sold by by two financially independent companies until 1945. So it was a cooperative of two companies sharing a factory. BTW, Rob's "Nimrod" drilling is essentially a Chr.Funk "Jubiläumsdrilling 1835 -1935, Modell II", featuring a light action body made from high strength steel, Blitz-/trigger plate locks and Funk's tumbler-locking safety.<<


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