I think it's pretty clear that either way works quite well.
Brent

You Martini folks - Give your thumb a job, keep it off the streets and out of trouble - it will greatly appreciate the chance to prove its worth.   

Know anyone that wants a fancy old Martini sporter .577-450.  My thumb just isn't happy with nothing to do.   

Brent

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Errmmm, Brent.

Whats your thumb going to be doing when you fire that Borchardt your working on? Hmm. 

Harry.

A block hung hammer does a better job of getting out of the way for loading and ejection and does not require an angled firingpin. Only the ballard and the winchester had block hung hammers on this side of the water although the Germans used them with internal hammers. I can think of no disadvantages to the block hung system.

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Hello Brent,
I hope the weather held and you had a good day. However, If owning and shooting a Borchardt continues affecting your health, I'll take it off your hands. Hell, I'll even pay the shipping costs.     

Harry

Harry, after shooting yesterday, it's apparent that the rifle is going to be more than competitive so my thumb is just going to have to live with it, and I'm afraid you will have to live without it.   

However, I will give a princely sum to anyone that can come up with a good trigger for the beast, Canjar or otherwise.

Brent

Harry, remind me not to challenge you...  Although I don't really believe Brent will go for the Zischang double set.

Glenn, I'd love the Zischang triggers if only they existed.  Who the heck is Jesterly Fortune.

Brent

I think that frontier armory has a casting kit for the Zischang triggers. Argus Barker will convert a Borchardt to double sets in the Zischang style. Be aware that the wait time may be excesive with Argus.

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Hello Brent, perhaps I can help. See:- (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)

Wes Stanley is difficult to contact I understand and slow in replying to Emails. I'm still waiting for him to reply to mine from 6 months ago. Best perhaps to ring him.

Harry

drc wrote on Sep 21^st, 2006 at 8:00am:


If these plans are the same set that were drawn in 2000 by the Moeller Machine and tool Co., then it isn't possible to build a Borchardt action or either the Zischchang or Zika DST's from them alone. A lot of dimensions are missing, some are incorrect, and some can only be deduced by consulting several of the drawings and doing some calculations. 

I have the Moeller Borchardt Drawings (7 in all) each roughly 3'x2' A whole page is devoted to each of the DST's. As you may have seen elsewhere on this 'Board' I am building a copy of this rifle action. 

If it were not for the help of some very generous friends who have supplied me with dimensions taken from their own rifles and supplied a copious number of photographs, my project would have ground to a halt weeks ago.

I cannot comment on the plans offered by Buffalo Arms as I haven't seen them, and as far as I am aware no reader of this 'Board' has. I wish someone had, we could compare notes, to see if in fact they are one and the same.

The ASSRA Archive have 'sketch drawings' of both DST's for US$ 3.00 that provide exactly the same dimension information. But as I mentioned above many measurements are missing. 

Harry