Greetings. I am a new member and am seeking more information about a Schutzen rifle I found on gunbroker. I have done some research online and remain confused about if Luna was a component or brand of Buchel or another business entity that utilized a Buchel manufactured action? Is such a rifle safe to shoot? If the answer to this question is yes - how difficult is it to find or make 7.6 ammo?

Thank to members for any help you can provide!

    The names "Luna" and "Buchel Meister" are good ones, suggestive of a good quality item.   The names are sometimes those of a vendor, sometimes of a maker.  Hard to tell.  Anyhow, the ctg is undoubtedly the 8.15x46R, easily made from 30-30 brass.   
    Whether is is "shootable" depends on whether it comes with sights or not.   Being detachable, they are many times lost from the rifle.    It is a serious desecration of fine rifles to tap them for scope blocks, but there is generally a top rib to which ad hoc blocks can be clamped.  
     Bullets can be a problem -- given the right diameter and something to hook a breech seater to, breech-seated ammo can give good results.    The Germans used a bullet with a belt on it that seated on the case mouth  --  One would reprime a case, charge with powder, and stick a bullet in it.   The case acted more-or-less as a bullet seater.   This is something I am tinkering right now with a couple of German rifles.   I am having best results with what would seem to be an over-size bullet, fitting the mouth of the fired case rather than the bore.
     
CHRIS
RGChristensen

Very nice rifle except it is missing the tang sight. The way the tang sight mounts on that Luna is different than most German schuetzen rifles so it may be hard to come up with a sight, even a reproduction. I have several German rifles including a Buchel Meister, I always figure a rifle is worth 25% more if it has the original sights. I believe the 7.25 in the proof marks refer to the month & year it was proofed (July 1925) and the 366 refers to  it being the 366th rifle proofed that month. I use to breach seat, but now use stop ring bullets. You can do searches on this web site as there were several good threads on German rifles & 8.15 x 46R reloading.
Mike

Thank you everyone for your informative responses. I will continue my research but have found that this subject is a bunch tougher than researching others Springfields, Lugers, 1911s, Japanese, etc. I guess because foreign and not military.

I don't really know about rarity, as I purchased my rifles 20ys ago and don't follow the gun auctions, but the photos on gun broker show what appears to be a rifle in nice shape. The rifle is plain, no fancy carving or engraving, if I were buying it, I would bid $700 to $900 without sights, I sure other members on this web site have different ideas on value.
Mike

Are there charts available that cover makers and production numbers to determine rarity?

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Production numbers = No