I recently joined the forum and wanted to share my drilling and ask a few questions about it's operation.
It's an A.F.W. Timner, 16 x 16 over what is probably 11mm Mauser, but I have not verified that yet. I have done as much digging as I can and know the following:
Clearly it's a Jacob Roehmer's German Patent DRP #72583
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[url=https://www.doublegu...b=showflat&Number=366734&page=4]This is how the gun works.
Rear trigger fires left barrel as you would expect.
Front fires right barrel.
Selector on tang pushes forward to select rifle barrel. It "sets" the middle sear and moves a small pawl to disconnect the right sear via a sprung lever that is then held in place by the button/lever in the trigger guard. Once the right sear is disconnected, you can not reengage the right sear/shotgun barrel until you have fired the rifle. un-set the middle/rifle sear (which you can do by pushing the tang selector forward and pulling the trigger) AND pressed the button in the trigger guard. It does not reset on it's own in any way until you release the pawl by pressing the button.
Does this sound right?
The actual DRP patent does not show the lever and appears to be self resetting from what I can get from the German. So these guns with the trigger guard button/lever seem to be a modification of the original. I wouldn't worry about it except that there is an unused tapped hole in my right trigger and a notch cut in the spring that moves the pawl that sure look like they are designed to interact, but if they do, there is a part missing. But if firing the rifle barrel is supposed to reset the front trigger automatically, then why does the triggerguard button exist?
Below are pics, I'm going to try hosting on fb, hop it works. I also messed up those hyper links, but they work. lol
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Thanks!
