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Pistol competition is still quite popular at the ISSA National events. Finding the pistol is quite challenging and this gentleman has just what one needs. 

J.Louis

There are /were a wide range of single shot target pistols built for formal and informal competition with similar lines using a number of single shot actions.  Some were very highly developed and used in international competition during the 1st 2/3s more or less of the 20th century.

Some were imported for competition use and some were brought back as WW2 "trophies".   I have wanted one for years but the grips are VERY personalized and none I have tried fitted me well enough to spend the money for it.
a couple I considered could have been bought in the 500-750 $$ range a few years ago.   It is my understanding that a number of former Eastern-bloc single shot "free-pistols" were imported a few years back and that that has depress ed the over all "free-pistol" market. 
  However individual example will stand on their own merit.  Since most like yours are rather unique highly customized items finding actual comparables to establish legally viable appraisals will be few and far between.  Auction house values (and especially on-line-auction sales) have obvious distortions built in.  Actual real world value will be very much the 'willing-seller/willing -buyer" deal.

Oh, I forgot to mention: 

Normally these are .22 lr, if they have German proofmarks. Some were sold for .22 "long" or "short" rimfire ammo.

If it is not "lr", the value is less, because its very difficult to find ammo. And in such cases, making a modification to lr is nearly not possible. I asked already two gunsmiths to modificate such a target pistol to lr. They advised me against the modification, because its much to expensive and the quality of the performance and accuracy will be lost.

              Biggi. 

Wayne, I think you are right. The barrel twist is different too. 

Some years ago, somebody offered me a nice target pistol with a real good fitting hand grip. I was very interested, but I checked the proof-marks. I think the pistol was from Switzerland. And I got the hint, maybe its .22 long, like they shot it in Switzerland in the old days. It was difficult to measure the chamber, but it was made for "long" ammo.

So I asked two talented gunsmiths who liked the work on old guns. But they told me both, that it would cost more than 800 Euros to do the job - without any guarantee for accuracy. So I declined to buy that pistol. Half an year later, I found a nice Büchel Tell and bought it!


But we don't know yet, what caliber and ammo the pistol of the thread-questioner needs. Maybe we'll never know.

          Biggi.   

We had in Germany three sizes of .22 rimfire ammo in the old days: short / long / longrifle.

Picture taken from a book of 1922 (Otto Billmann / Kleinkaliber-Schiessen).

And I remember something about "extra long". But cannot find a pic at the moment.

         Biggi.