Recent content by Paul Tummers

What you got there is called a "Nicker" , a small German traditional hunting knife for the roe-deer hunter. It is called a Nicker because one of its purposes is to kill a wounded roe-deer by bending int head into the direction of the chest and then slide the knife from the back between two parts...

I own several traditional Laguiole knives, apart from the old carbon steel they all have Sandvik 12C27 steel blades mounted. The type of steel is not so very important to me, correct heat treatment however is; One can have a bad blade made from excellent steel just not heat treated the way it...

I do not own one myself anymore, but the rifle that comes to my mind is an old BSA Martini action bull barrel target rifle I once have seen in the hands of and older guy at a range. He shot it from a rest at 25 meters and it produced nice one-hole groups, hole was not even larger than 1 1/2...

Yes, on mine there is an amount of play when I have the cylinder taken off the yoke seems, the hole in the yoke aligns it because when re-mounted on the yoke it works smooth and with very little play

You can change those CZ's into sub-MOA shooters if you pay some attention to the bedding and free-floating of the barrel, had 3 of them, 2 in .222Rem and one in .223Rem. All of them were bad fitted into their stocks and turned into nail drivers after a good glass-fiber/resin bedding of the...

Nice knife! And you know how to handle a file!

There is one for sale right now, with a scope with the original 3-claw mount in cal. 6,5x54for 1399 Euro. Good looking rifle! I would buy it myself but our hunting permit allows for a maximum of 6 rifles/shotguns, have 4 shotguns and 2 rifles already.

When you have a look on Egun, a German gunselling site,something like Ebay for guns, you perhaps will find one!

Well, I have seen examples of your gunsmiths that are just as good! For production rifles, they just had to go that way, it was milling, turning and boring and above all, heat treatment,hardly any short-cuts possible.Remember their Kropatschek actions, never ever a smoother action has been...

How do you mean?

The Dutch Army used that round in the rimmed version in their Hembrug Rifles and carbines in WWII, the Germans really soon found out, that those rounds were more accurate as their 8x57IS caliber and used those supplies and rifles when Holland did surrender.

Yes, me too but then, who can pay for them? Something for a selected public, thus commercially the company would be doomed to be banc-rupt within a year. We can be happy, there are still craftsmen around to make a rifle to ones likings!

That looks a challenge to me- stocking a full-stock rifle with a slender barrel in such a way the wood movement due to humidity changing does not affect the POI!

I have a question; Are those stocks made from one piece of wood or are they composed from 2 pieces to cut the grain to avoid warping ?

Beautiful!! When I would have been the owner of this little gem, I would need all the courage I could get for NOT shooting it!!