What a nice old ORIGINAL pistol. Already talk of changing it to something else?  If it's .22 short, the ammo is still available. I use it for practice in some of my rifles. My local sporting goods store has standard velocity, pistol target, high velocity. If we leave things original and purchase the correct ammunition they will keep making the ammunition available, hopefully.

Sorry had to get that off my chest. 


            Joe. 

I totally agree with Joe and he brings up a great point. If there is no demand for 22 Shorts they will no longer be obtainable. I had the privilege to shoot an original pristine Maynard Schuetzen target rifle with all of the up grades and a true one of a kind. It was chambered for the short ammunition, the standard of the day for serious target work and it was amazingly accurate.

J.Louis

Kermit, I bought a case of the CCI short target at a garage sale,won't say how much, but it shoots 1 hole groups @ 25 yards. Winchester Schuetzen High Wall, B5 scope.  ...MIKE...

What was so unique about shooting the Maynard was the ammunition, old original Peter's target. It was three shots each for myself and a close friend then in the safe it went along with the ammunition due to the collector value of both.

J.Louis

There is nothing special on this pistol, the engraving is quite normal. It is not custom made, its out of the shelf.


You should have a look on my homepage, there you'll find a real special made target pistol. The legendary pistol of Friedrich Krempel.

          Biggi. 

Charlemagne,    Speaking as a Historian and former museum director,  most museum curators, unless they are serious and informed students of firearms history know blessed little about firearms.  Most because they are "authorities", they are (as a collective group) practically terminally allergic to saying "I don't know".  A few will tell a visitor 'that is out of my area of expertise" and refer to a more knowledgable source--if they know of one.
There are exceptions and there are a few museums with large and well documented arms collections of courses.  And even within those collections and staffs they tend to be generalists. There are specialists who are well informed within well defined areas of course but they pretty much tend to be make oriented or military arms specialists etc.  

Single shots are a pretty rarefied niche and our experienced members here are probably more knowledgeable than most of the museum curators and most of the auction house "experts".  European single shots are a niche with in a niche, and the single shot free pistols (at least in the USA) are a niche within a niche within a niche within a niche.

Due to their artistic and craftsmanship traditions, many Germanic arms show a much larger amount of art work on their wood and metal, (even on the more common non-military arms) than is normally found on Anglo-American arms where such artistic embellishments are less common and generally a reflection of higher cost/status arms

One also has to take family lore with a grain of salt as well.   Over the years I have worked with a LOT of family  and oral history and family historians.
Once you get more that one generation from the original/eyewitness sources suffer from a lot of 2+2=22 kind of unintentional errors and misunderstandings.

You have a really nice pistol,  one to be proud of, I know i would be.  I have wanted a good well-fitting free pistol for years

Ain't that the truth!!!
And YOU had to bring it back up Walter

some sleeping dogs just shouldn't be kicked   

Funny.  I don't have any problem.  All the photos and the (eccentric!) translations of the text just pop right up.  Bring chills, they do.