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No, no chance of a date post September 1923 as that was when dating they began their wares. For the next 6 months or so a ledger number was paired with the date and there are 2 possibilities regarding stamping after that. Either there was a renovation at the Suhl proofhouse & they Suhl sent their wares to Z-M or Suhl used a ledger number. I hold strongly with the latter. The Star over H is either for tubes fabed at Haenel or for one of the mechanics at Haenel. It is possible that there were several Hengelhaupt mechanics employed at Haenel & the script H stamps are their liability stamp. For now I do not think they own the Star over H. Yeah, 7600 PSi sounds nice & I'd hold with 67mm or shorter. You can approach a 27 gram load as long as the pressure is checked.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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I know that there were many gun makers in Suhl. Was Haenel generally low end or mid range as far as overall price offerings. I can't seem to find much info on them other than they are still making guns now. With the lack of engraving, I'm assuming that this is something like a Fox Sterlingworth grade- just a hardware store type gun (with excellent fit).

I just got my 16ga Haenel Hammer gun back with stock refinished and checkering re-cut. I'm quite happy with it.

Need to possibly lengthen one firing pin as I get soft hits and an occasional F2F.

Looks very nice.

Mark

It does, doesn't it Mark. I saw it first on another site and am as impressed now by how good it looks as I was at first sight.