doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Does this action look familiar (more pics added)?

That was the first guess, but the date on the water table is January 1945, Soviet troops were nowhere near Suhl by then.

Then again, "a German action" - which German action exactly?

Hello I am the owner of this gun. Previously, it belonged to my grandfather. He worked at an arms factory in Izhevsk from 1933 to 1948. He was a specialist in the production of artillery systems. (In 1933 he graduated from the Military Technical Academy Dzerzhinsky. By that time it was very serious education)
According to these links, you can see pictures of this gun before and after restoration.
http://alexey-klyuev.livejournal.com/8932.html
http://alexey-klyuev.livejournal.com/7754.html

I don't see anything really that would point to German sourcing, maybe Brno or Vejprty??? But the action is an advancement of the A&D Action Body by William Anson who first sought protection in 1882 under Nr. 4089 in Britian,

http://www.google.com/patents?id=58lCAAA...882&f=false

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...true#Post337375
Dig's intercepting thread

And it was refined by H.A. Lindner of Suhl, as it was his staple, with the interfaces being more sculpted and not so blocky. Francotte also peddled some variants. This one looks home grown in Izhevsk.


Interesting that they do seem to follow German convention with NITRO/НИТРО low on the flats.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Thank you, Raimey

This gun was examined by Igor Karklynsh, who's probably the greatest Russian sporting arms expert now. His opinion is that it is a completely original design. In 1944 the decision to resume sporitng arms production was made, and two small shops set up, one by A. Ivanov in Tula, and another by V. Scherbakov in Izhevsk.

The gun is most likely to be made by Scherbakov, and quite possibly designed by him too. Apparently, the boxlocks in the rough, or at least action blanks, were sourced from the Tula Armory, which made the Model A boxlock in many variations (including a WR-style droplock) since early XX century. As a matter of fact, the gun can be described as a development of one variation of the Model A, with the addition of the intercepting sears.

The guns were apparently meant to be gifts to the war heroes, thus the unusually high (for the pre-war USSR) level of finish and engraving.

It is known that German POWs who identified themselves as gunmakers were sent to Izhevsk, and one of those could have had a hand in building this gun.

There is still a lot to learn about this gun, and the WW2 gun production in general. Karklynsh assures that the investigation is going on.