The other side.

Mike that's not your Borchardt. Even though it is real pretty. FITZ.

A very nice looking stock, the grain in the pistol grip is running nice and 'square on' for fitting to the back of the action. No pics from Joe?

Harry

Hello Mike,
Glad to see you haven't forgotten us. lol. You can differentiate between a Borchardt constructed for Long Range  usage from all other Borchardts. The rifle as built by Sharps was too heavy to make the weight requirement for Creedmoor Shooting and so several weight reducing measures had to be taken. 

Excess weight was removed by additional machining to the action body, the stock bolt and the breechblock.

The breechblock had a 'scallop' of metal as you call it removed from the underside of the firing pin housing behind the breechblock. The stock bolt was drilled through internally for its full length, effectively making it a tube with a thread on one end and a slotted head on the other. The action body had the side panels housings cut out, the top of the receiver ring was sculpted, as was the underside at the front of the action. Viewing the action from the front the usual Borchardt would have a hole centrally placed below the barrel with a rectangular notch cut on the left hand side. Most of this metal was removed leaving just a thin outer shell of metal. Finally most of the metal web between the upper and lower tangs was removed leaving just a spigot for the stock bolt to screw into. The same alterations were made on the Mid Range Borchards.

Unless your action has all these refinements, it was not a totally original LR Rifle. (these were usually built to order only) It could well have been made up from parts obtained from Schuster, Hartley and Graham the NY based International Arms Company who bought what was left from the Sharps Co., when it closed including cases of Borchardts and spare parts for the both the Borchardt and the 1874 Model Sharps, they were still selling these rifles by the case and the spares some 25 yeaqrs after the Sharps Factory closed it's doors. Given that Zischang's gunsmiths shop in NY it is likely that S,H&G were the source of his supply of rifles and components.

Continued below. 

Harry

Hey Mike,
Many of us are anxiously waiting to see the outcome of this Zischang Borchardt.  Almost a year has gone by since we last heard news of this.  Any progress to report?  Bob

any more progress? anxious to see it....Don

Thanks go to all of you for showing me to wait, and wait some more if needed. Joseph is a bit slow but his workmanship is excellent. His triggers are almost exact copies of the Zischang ones.

Not yet. As soon as I hear anything I will let you know.
Mike