Recent content by davetherogue

Here are pics of the bores. Not sure if this helps or not. Not sure of the best way to get clear bore pictures with a camera phone.

The strange thing for me was having owned this gun for going on 10 years, looking at it this week I discovered the ammo box. Opening the ammo box revealed 4 rounds of seller and ballot SCPA ammo. Which would lead me to believe prior to my inheriting it it was still being shot. Of course that...

I will try and get some bore pics uploaded in the morning. To my eyes the shotgun bores are bright and shiny with no obvious defects. As to the rifle barrel the rifling looks sharp and bore is mostly bright and shiny with maybe a bit of frosting and again no obvious defects. As for facing it...

Is that a crown N or an eagle N? If I read correctly eagle N came into use in the 50s which would explain the Munich mark as the two were in use together. Maybe this is a post war gun?

Here a couple more shots of what might be a federal eagle?

So pre war, possibly sleeved and rechambered? Interesting. Suhl? Is the F W hey not a maker's mark?

More pics!

Hi guys. I inherited this old drilling rifle about 10 years ago. I have no information on it and I'm having difficulty finding much. I see what looks like an FW hey but the only thing I find in researching is FW Heym? So I'm assuming that's the maker. I know it has most of the bells and whistles...