doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com Revisiting the rifle from Wundhammer's shop.

The rifle in the article was done by Paul Wolff. Unfortunately the article contains no information on Wolff.

I have very little information on Paul Wolff. He was reported as working with Dyes & Cline Los Angeles California before and after 1920.

There was a sporting goods store in LA called Cline & Cline. I don't know if Dyes & Cline was later or a different one altogether.

I have not verified this but it seems that Dyas- Cline became Cline-Cline about 1913.

It's Dyas not Dyes. One little letter sure makes a difference ;-).

Getting interesting now, both William H.(Billy)Wilshire and Joesph Singer worked at Dyas & Cline.

It's late I'm seeing double but it looks like the Wundhammer shop was less than three blocks from Dyas & Cline.

Thanks to Lou we have a better picture.

Back when they were converting Krags to sporting rifles there were a lot that had wood added for a high comb and a pistol grip.

Back to work on Pachmayr, the reference I found to Joesph Singer working at Dyas & Cline is a newspaper article from 1910.

When Pachmayr first came to LA I have read that he worked for Singer so now I need to dig a little deeper.

Back when they were converting Krags to sporting rifles there were a lot that had wood added for a high comb and a pistol grip.

Funny you should mention that. I saw a Krag sporter conversion at a local show today that had been pieced to add both the higher comb and the pistol grip. If I recall correctly, there were at least 4 pieces of wood spliced into the original stock. Very well done, but no way to tell if they were simply glued or had been pinned as well. The seller was asking less than $400 for the rifle and I was tempted, but I'd gone looking for something specific and didn't want to spend the money on anything but my target (Browning Hi-Power, Belgian, 60s era - which I did locate and am considering).

Buy it!

I agree, buy it!

A few months ago there was a nice one like that on GunBroker, I'm not sure if it sold or not.

There were a lot of them done that way but only a few show professional workmanship.

(I meant the HP ;>)

Hard to believe but another one just crossed my desk. A gentleman sent me some photos of a rifle he would like to identify and this one was next to it.