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Bull Schmitt
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Schuetzen rifle ID
Jan 14th, 2018 at 2:14pm
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A friend recently  acquired two percussion Schuetzen rifles marked Gebruder Beutter, New Haven, CT. Does anyone have any information on these brothers and/or photos of any of their rifles?
  
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Re: Schuetzen rifle ID
Reply #1 - Jan 14th, 2018 at 5:42pm
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Heck, if you have access to a pair of 'em, you should send pics to us.
  
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Reply #2 - Jan 14th, 2018 at 5:43pm
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Out of curiosity, I ran "Beutter" and New Haven, CT through the Ancestry.com search engine.  There are traces of a Beutter family in the New Haven CT area (graves, tombstones) but the only US census records are for Augustus Beutter, a beer brewer who immigrated from Holland in 1899.  Some of the graves date from the 1870s, but all the names are those of women.  I'll run a trace on a Mary Beutter who died in 1873.  Maybe I'll find something there.
  
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Reply #3 - Jan 27th, 2018 at 2:25pm
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I would add photos if I could figure how the hell to do it. Angry
  
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Reply #4 - Jan 27th, 2018 at 3:03pm
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Bull Schmitt wrote on Jan 27th, 2018 at 2:25pm:
I would add photos if I could figure how the hell to do it. Angry


Easy if you have them on your computer.  Don't you see the Attachment box below the dialog box?
  
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Reply #5 - Jan 28th, 2018 at 7:31pm
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I select the files on my computer and the hit the SAVE button, ut they don't showup!b
  
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Reply #6 - Jan 28th, 2018 at 8:46pm
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Did you select the file and then click "Open" first?
  
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Reply #7 - Jan 31st, 2018 at 6:10pm
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Try these photos
  
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And some more
  
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Reply #9 - Jan 31st, 2018 at 6:15pm
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Very nice!
  
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Reply #10 - Feb 1st, 2018 at 10:18am
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Glad you got the pictures posted BS.  I can see the hole in TG for the palm rest and mounting for the diopter shaft.  Let us know twist, caliber- also presume front sight is pin-head?  jim
  
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Reply #11 - Feb 1st, 2018 at 11:57am
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I'm not an expert on Schuetzen rifle styles, but they resemble the Swiss military "Stutzer" rifles.  The buttstock doesn't have a perch belly or a pistol grip and the triggerguard, lock, and snail also resemble the "Stutzer".  Are the buttplates also like those used on the Swiss rifles?
  Would you mind telling us the weight of the rifles?  They don't look as heavy as other percussion Schuetzen rifles I've seen.  Also, what is the barrel length and drop of the buttstock?

Thank you! Smiley
  
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Re: Schuetzen rifle ID
Reply #12 - Feb 2nd, 2018 at 2:15pm
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Agree with S Miller: Palm rests were not used on German Schuetzen rifles with the exception of .22s.
These are Swiss---the rear sight design is unmistakeable--and intended for hunting and target use.
Fred
  
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Re: Schuetzen rifle ID
Reply #13 - Feb 14th, 2018 at 12:17pm
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I sure like the looks of those two rifles!
  
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