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Anyone good at translating German?
Jul 8th, 2025 at 6:23pm
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I would appreciate knowing what this letter says.
  
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Re: Anyone good at translating German?
Reply #1 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 6:37pm
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Have you tried Google translate yet Chauncey? Type it in as written and it's usually going to get you close.
  

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Re: Anyone good at translating German?
Reply #2 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 8:17pm
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14
Original Greifelt Boar Rifles
Special features! See adjacent illustration. We particularly note the artistically executed engraving.
Below is an original customer report:
The Shooting Officer
on the staff of the District Master of the Hunt for the Braunschweig Hunting District
To
Greifelt & Co.
Suhl
Bad Harzburg, January 12, 1939
With the Greifelt Boar Rifle, which you manufactured according to my specifications, I achieved excellent shooting results, both at the German Hunting Association's Championship Shooting in Berlin and at the rifle shooting event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Testing Institute for Small Arms in Berlin-Wannsee. Recently, it is thanks to the accuracy of this rifle that I won the Reich Master of the Hunt Hermann Göring Challenge Prize as the best shooter of the Braunschweig Hunting District at the 1938 District Shooting Competition for the second time.

While zeroing the rifle in Berlin-Wannsee at the target with the small 10 (not the hunting target, which has a larger 10), I shot 12 consecutive 10s on the target. Witnesses to this include gunsmith Otto Wittig of Braunschweig. For me, this fact is proof of the outstanding performance of the Greifelt rifle, which has completely fulfilled my expectations in terms of shooting performance and the precision of the lock mechanism, etc.

I thank you for this outstanding German craftsmanship and wish you every success in your future endeavors.

``` You may, if you wish, make full use of my recognition, providing my full name and address.
Dr. Otto Rohkamm
Bad Harzburg, Herzog-Julius-Str. 14, Shooting Officer on the staff of the District Master of the Hunt for the Braunschweig Hunting District
dostockamm.
  

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Re: Anyone good at translating German?
Reply #3 - Jul 8th, 2025 at 8:18pm
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I don't speak German, just computer web sites.

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Re: Anyone good at translating German?
Reply #4 - Jul 9th, 2025 at 4:46pm
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Thank you very much, Jack. That is a great web site to tackle all those peculiar German composite words and come out making perfect sense! I was hoping that maybe my Greifelt was shot AT Hermann Goring;-) The Original Greifelt single shot was a late 1930's rifle. The model that deHaas called the Kettner (which was the marketer and not the maker). If interested, here's where the letter can be found on pages 12-15:
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