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Posting for Bill. A German Hahn DR. Not sure if it has 2 French single set triggers or one? If just one, then it began life as something else. Too the platform just looks older than the WWI era stamps.













Unique Belgian/French type Crown of Script Character.
The tubeset knitter looks to have been „EE“ as in Emil Eckoldt but they seems to have been overstamped in a masking effort?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Raimey, Thanks for your posting and explanation. Both triggers are set triggers. An earlier poster read the 60 stamp on the barrel flat as a serial number. Is chamber length likely? Present chambers are long for the 444. Because the groove stamp, 10.5, was originally 10.3, does that indicate the rifling has been recut? The stamp you read as EE is actually RS. Again, thanks for help.

Raimey,
Did the owner of this rifle have a chamber cast made or did he take the word of the person that sold it to him, who may have just tried cartridges until he found one that "went into the chamber". The 444 Marlin can easily be confused for the 11.15x60R LK Express.
The 444 case has about the same head diameter as the 11.15x60R, the rim diameter is a little less than the 11.15, since it is a simi-rimmed case. The 444 case is about 57mm long, which is only around 3mm shorter than the 11.15. A 444 cartridge would likely easily but closely fit into an 11.15x60R LK Express chamber. ( see Dixon p.66)
Mike

All very true Ford & my sentiments exactly. He should be along shortly but he gives the groove diameter to be 0.429". Too with him being the custodian & having it in hand, he gives the >>10,5<< stamp is actually is an overstamping of >>10,3<<.

To my knowledge there wasn't or isn't a chamber cast.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Raimey, when you speak to him, some considerations- The number on the barrel flat is measured by pin gauges that are in 0.1 mm, so a "slug" measured with a mic might be a couple thousandths of an inch off that dimension. If the barrel has an od number of grooves, measuring the groove diameter with common tools can create an error, using various methods to approximate the grove diameter of an odd number of grooves can also result in an error, albeit a smaller one. Old barrels often have "tapered grooves which results in the groove diameter at the breech end being a couple to a few thousandths of an inch larger than at the muzzle end. All these things should be considered.
Mike

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the previous owner did have a chamber cast made and that the dimensions, save for chamber length, were generous at the base for the 444 Marlin. I've fired the rifle using 265 gr gas check bullets and mild charges of 4198. Results are fairly good. The cases don't expand at the base with these loads. I think neck sizing will suffice.

Yes, >>60<<(mm implied) is most certainly the chamber length @ time proof during WWI. How long is the water-table / action flats?

>>RS<< would denoted effort my master tubeset knitter Robert Schlegelmilch. I guess the >>R.S.<< is just poorly stamped.

I still do not recognize the Crowned German Script X??

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Raimey, Measuring from the breech face to the center of the hinge pin, I get 2.1".

Bill,
You can make full length cases from 9.3x74R, but you would likely nave to anneal them pretty far back and fireform them several times to get them fully formed. 7x65R would also work but you would have different problems. I don't like to expand necks before fire forming due to the necks coming out uneven, but if you don't in this case, you would lose too many cases due to split necks. The 65 mm case is likely long enough to take the necessary trimming and still come out 60mm long. You can also use brass 410 cases, but everyone has 7x65R and 9.3x74R cases on hand and I don't know anyone that actually has brass 410 cases in their "pile".
Mike

Just some notes in passing, the bullet weight used for the proof effort was a Copper Jacketed bullet of about 278 grains. And it wears some antiquated strikers.

The measurement of the length of the water-table confirms my suspicions that it is indeed a longer version. Most German SxSs had a length of 48 cm whilst H.A. Lindner-Charles Daly had a length of 56 mm and his sidelocks @ 62mm. So in comparison that's 2.2" for Lindner's wares to 2.1" for the subject longarm. Too it has what looks to be the Treble >>Bump<< on the forend-iron. H.A. Lindner married into the Triebel Klan by marrying Hedwig Triebel on April 27th of 1877. Now I am not saying it was sourced from Lindner by any means but the Triebel forends have that bump & longer water-table frames lie w/ H.A. Lindner, whose son Ernst Lindner(06.07.1883-16.06.1915) fell in fierce fighting w/ the Brits in mid 1915 leaving widow Gertrud Schorr Lindner to occupy the premises till 1948. Maybe post 1915 H.A. Lindner had a Garage Sale of Gestecks & some enterprising mechanic picked up an Old Lindner Hammergun Gesteck for a song & cobbled together a DR. Remember too that R.S./Robert Schlegelmilch was the prime tubeset knitter for H.A. Lindner. Just rampant & wild speculation but then again there's a lot of hammenstance with the Hahn Doppelbüchse??? Considering the above, that too would narrow the date to 1916-1923 and with the bullet weight & type on the side of the tube, I would narrow the date to 1916-1919.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse