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I picked up a German drilling last month from our favorite SXS guru @NiceOldDouble. I've always been fascinated by these guns but never come across one I was willing to pay the price for, until last month.
I knew this gun had a few issues that I want to take care of but nothing major was wrong with it. I get it home and start working out how the triggers operate. It has 2 triggers just like a standard double barrel but it has 3 barrels. As I am working out the operations, I notice that one of the cooking indicators has stopped popping up to indicate that the hammer is cocked. The hammers are internal. A week or so later I get the time and courage to disassemble the gun. I found that the hammer that fires the rifle barrel has broken in to two pieces.
This is a 100+ year old gun that was made in a pre war cottage industry and parts are hard to come by. So a lot of head scratching a prayer and a welder I managed to weld it back together.
A little file work
I knew this gun had a few issues that I want to take care of but nothing major was wrong with it. I get it home and start working out how the triggers operate. It has 2 triggers just like a standard double barrel but it has 3 barrels. As I am working out the operations, I notice that one of the cooking indicators has stopped popping up to indicate that the hammer is cocked. The hammers are internal. A week or so later I get the time and courage to disassemble the gun. I found that the hammer that fires the rifle barrel has broken in to two pieces.
This is a 100+ year old gun that was made in a pre war cottage industry and parts are hard to come by. So a lot of head scratching a prayer and a welder I managed to weld it back together.
A little file work