doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion Classic & Custom Single Barreled Sporting Rifles @ doublegunshop.com A Fred Adolph Flier:

Have I said "I like Adolphs", This stock was found (not by me) on a gunshow table for $25.

Now there is a beautiful color. I like that one a lot.

I also find it interesting that these very ornately carved and checkered rifles of the highest quality seem to generally have rather plainly figured wood. Not a lot of crotch figure or feather, almost no marble cake grain, etc.

This one could almost be stained sugar maple for all the figure in it. But I suppose that there is purpose to that. A lot of grain would disguise the carving much like case coloring hides good engraving.

I am just now embarking on building a new rifle myself and so I wonder about these things some and I think about what I'm going to use for wood and where I might go to look for it.

Brent

Another Adolph, this time a Mauser "K". This one went to a better home with hopes that I might find an Adolph engraved 1903.

I am pleased to be the new caretaker of Michael's Adolph Kurz Mauser shown above. It's a key piece in my Mauser collection.

DONS, which caliber is that "K" in?

Michael, Michael, Michael,

You sold a very rare short action Mauser in the hopes of finding a similar SPRINGFIELD? The diagnosis is bad: patriotus delirium.

As Paul Harvey would say...now "The Rest of the Story". It is marked on the receiver 6.5KP, which would be the 6.5x54K Mauser. However, the barrel is marked "Adolph Mauser 25 Cal". So what does it all mean??? I think I will let Michael take the story from here.

Yep, I get that a lot. At one time I had my way with pre-war custom sporters as there was no interest in them and they could be had for a song. I don't sing well. Now some guy in, of all places, Alaska has been writing about them so now when I want to add to the collection something must go. Not complaining, I bought good stuff years ago that now affords me the opportunity to upgrade or downgrade, as the case may be.

Regarding the caliber of the K-Mauser. As Don says it's marked as the 6.5x54K and the barrel is marked "25-Adolph".

The person I got it from said it shot fine with 6.5K ammo. The rifle was not something I would be shooting so I just took his word for the caliber.

I really dropped the ball on this one, I did not do a chamber cast. I figured that Adolph just sold 6.5 ammo with his label on it.

Both Don and I have been trying to run down the .25-Adolph with little luck.

Don,

I have set aside about twenty pages from the Adolph file I need to read. They are letters between two men in the 1970's and single spaced typed with cartridge drawings to do with both Adolph and Newton.

One correspondent bad mouths everyone alive at the time, kind of like Harvey Donaldson. I'll see what if anything they have to offer.