Originally Posted By: canvasback
Originally Posted By: reb87
I have a few, they are well made, somewhere between savage and Parker quality. I remember one in dgj that had Damascus barrels with the pattern including the name"peiper" over and over , pretty neat.


There is a gun enthusiast who recently (last year) bought an old Pieper hammer gun for not very much money. Barrels had been blued but he thought they were Damascus. A little bit of effort after the purchase revealed that they too had the name Pieper woven into the Damascus pattern.
Originally Posted By: canvasback
Originally Posted By: reb87
I have a few, they are well made, somewhere between savage and Parker quality. I remember one in dgj that had Damascus barrels with the pattern including the name"peiper" over and over , pretty neat.


There is a gun enthusiast who recently (last year) bought an old Pieper hammer gun for not very much money. Barrels had been blued but he thought they were Damascus. A little bit of effort after the purchase revealed that they too had the name Pieper woven into the Damascus pattern.
sounds interesting...wonder how many are out there....






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Andrew