Attached are pictures of my home made breech seater for my Buchel: waste of time as all it does in effect is increase the capacity of a case which is already too big.
Also a 3 time magnification scope which fits to the top rib in a purpose made mount. The scope is made by "Iskop" in Wetzler.

Anybody seen one of these before?
Fred

Biggi, you are a man of many wonders.  It is without a doubt the sight that is on my ZS. You have added immensly to my knowledge of the history of the rifle. The 1920"s period fits with my interpretation of general time of manufacture. And if you have any luck with the name, would pin it down even more and add to our knowledge base. Again, not to be maudlin, but thank you.

Dick

PS Now that we know what this sight is, do we have any more info on it's legality in ASSRA matches??

Tell ya what group. When I make a mistake, it's generally a good one.     To this point, I have to appologize to Biggi and all of you. Somewhere I either missed or it never registered in my feeble brain that our friend Biggi was of the female gender. She is a wellspring of knowledge and her sharing this with us, a resource we haven't had very often in any arena. So please accept my appology Biggi, and  to rephrase my last post...

"Biggi, you are a woman of many wonders."

Dick

Hi Schutzenbob!

About your question to the different stocks, which should most suitable "fit like a glove".

In former times, there were a lot of mail order companies where you could get your fire-rifle or zimmer-rifle out of the catalogue. The different systems (Aydt, Martini, etc.) and different stocks were shown there. 

A stock with "Swiss Cheek" or "Bavarian Cheek" fits nearly everybody, because you can slide on the wooden stock cheek to your favourite position. 

With "Tyrolean Cheek" and "Vienna Cheek" you had also in former times more problems to find a fitting one to your own physiognomy.

Examples see first figure below.  

I think most of the shooters in former times bought their fire-rifle or zimmer-rifle ready-made "from the shelf". Because going to a stock-carver was also at that time expensive. And I think, that most of the shooters had to make compromises between the prize and the fitting to the physiognomy...

I believe, there are a lot of parameters for carving a fitting stock. The position and height of the wooden cheek, the angle between the barrel and the both final-points at the end of the stock and the length of the stock and surely a lot more. And also the used system, because normally a Martini is marginally lower than an Aydt-system.

Examples see second figure below.  

Nowadays with a modern small-bore .22 cal match rifles, you have the possibility to adjust all parameters with screws and Allen-wrench fitting to your physiognomy. So you need no stock-carver anymore.

        Biggi  

Biggi
Are you aware of any shops that are currently making optical attachments like the Fernrohr-Diopter Sperber shown on your website? I bought a reproduction of E-bay and it works great, just would like to find another. Great website and I am learning tons of stuff from this thread. Just so you know I have three Zimmers and three centerfires.

Tom

Biggi
I will be happy to post pictures, but I am currently away from home. Next week for sure. The optical device has no name on it. I threaded the front of my Buchel eyecup to accept the device and it works well.

Tom

Hi deadwooddick.

Thx for showing the target. Very interesting! If you hit outside the rings, it is always a "zero"? It is not possible to shoot a 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 ring, thus the lowest ring is the "10"?

Hhhmm, what means "pre-1917 scoped rifles"? What is the difference with the scopes? I don't know this, because we have only our quite normal old fire-rifle diopters. Others are not allowed.

  Biggi  

feuerbixler wrote on Jun 7^th, 2010 at 6:08am:


Biggi,

The target paper is 26 inches (66.04 cm) square. I'm thinking that a competitor using this target at 200Y (182.88 m) who was missing it altogether (outside the 10 ring), might consider another "sport."   

Scoring rings out to #1 would require a target that's 38 inches square (96.6 cm) which I "think" is beyond most print shop capabilities.

Are images of your targets available ?

Richard

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