Another German favorite

[herb]

A few photos of my Danzig sporter rifle made around 1914. Germany made military rifles at many factories both inside and outside Germany. The state arsenals of imperial Germany were Amberg, Danzig, Spandau and Erfurt. Danzig also made a few rifles in sporting configuration like this one.

The caliber is 8mm Mauser....















Herb

[The Doc]

That is a beauty Herb !!

best,

RP.

[Olly]

Great... and thanks for sharing....



Just wondering, why are there 2 triggers ?

[herb]

It is a double set trigger, the front one is the actual trigger with pull of around 4 lbs, pulling the rear lever/trigger sets the trigger (front) to around 2lbs. A very light trigger is helpful for accurate shooting but is unsafe as it can go off if jarred or the rifle is dropped. This way you have best of both. It is more expensive to manufacture and no one makes it like this any more. The current CZ rifles come with a single set trigger.

Herb

[penpusher]

Nice rifle.Seems to have a stepped barrel like the military Mauser.Does it have a take down stock?

[herb]

pp - The barrel is military contour. I think like oberndorf's, Danzig did not manufacture barrels specifically for sporting configuration other than the stock, trigger and some changes to the bolt which is having some checkering and turned down.

[lazybones]

Wow ! A classic. The double trigger is a revelation. Thanks for sharing.

Ashok

[bullshitwalks]

beautiful

[TenX]

It is a double set trigger, the front one is the actual trigger with pull of around 4 lbs, pulling the rear lever/trigger sets the trigger (front) to around 2lbs. A very light trigger is helpful for accurate shooting but is unsafe as it can go off if jarred or the rifle is dropped. This way you have best of both. It is more expensive to manufacture and no one makes it like this any more. The current CZ rifles come with a single set trigger.

Herb

Thats a very fine looking gentleman...
About the trigger, I remember having seen one in our shooting range, a .22 rifle, which has two triggers, with the front one (a straight trigger) being a lock for the rear trigger. The shooter would have to push the front trigger to release the lock, and then pull on the rear trigger... of course, the rifle is probably older than me

[mundaire]

Sweet, nothing like a nice bolt action rifle and that too Mauser... my congratulations - the 8mm Mauser cartridge is good medicine for most applications as well!

Cheers!
Abhijeet

-- 28 Feb 2009 11:44 pm --

P.S. - TenX, the reason why you probably don't see more double set triggers on the range is that they are not allowed as per ISSF regulations....

[sitar]

Well my uncle’s CZ rifle also has a pair of trigger. We call it hair pull mechanism (I don’t know weather it is correct or not but we call it hair pull.). Hair pull mechanism is activated by pressing the second trigger which activates first trigger as a sensitive one. The first trigger is around 4-5 lb and the second time trigger is adjustable to the extent of (just to say) 0.2 – 2 lb.. so if it is adjusted for lowest pull, you can bang by just touching the trigger.

Note- (I haven’t measured the trigger pull precisely by any instrument but to tell you people, I can say in the lowest pull setting if you drop a piece of paper on the trigger it will bang….you can't even touch it properly and it fires..... )

Anyways the lowest setting doesn’t seems practically useful but I am deeply moved by the precise and wonderful mechanism of that gun.

[TenX]

Sweet, nothing like a nice bolt action rifle and that too Mauser... my congratulations - the 8mm Mauser cartridge is good medicine for most applications as well!

Cheers!
Abhijeet

-- 28 Feb 2009 11:44 pm --

P.S. - TenX, the reason why you probably don't see more double set triggers on the range is that they are not allowed as per ISSF regulations....

Thanks chief.. I did not even know it was called a 'double set trigger' ... thats one thing learnt today

[TwoRivers]

While the state arsenals probably produced a few presentation rifles, they were usually not sporters. There is really no evidence that any of the arsenals produced sporting rifles; and extremely unlikely they would have done so with war looming in 1914. It's a sporter produced from a military rifle after WWI. Cheers.

[herb]

TwoRivers - If memory serves me right I remember reading in Ludwig Olsons book "Mauser Bolt Rifles" that Danzig produced sporters including .22's. He also had some pictures. I don't have the book at hand to refer but let me see if I can get some information.

Westley Richards has one for sale and when they say it is a "Gewehrfabrik Danzig Sporter" I am assuming it is made by Danzig.

Danzig for sale @ WR

Cheer's
Herb

[kragiesardar]

Wow! Thats a classic. heard you want to sell it?