View Full Version : Need help finding info on this gun
weasel_master
07-14-2010, 09:13 PM
A guy at work asked for my help finding some info on a gun his brother in law has. I've been working with them trying to buy their german ww2 anti-tank gun. Hoping this helps persuad them some more.
Here's the info I got from him, I'm hoping to go check it out this weekend while I look at the tank rifle.
Info on Sotck:
Adolf Loesche
Hannover
Waffen-U
Sporthaus
It has an octagonal barrel. 9M/M is marked on the barrel. When he opens the barrel up, the number "35" is seen. I assume from this it is a break action.
Anyone got any ideas?
Planning
07-14-2010, 09:47 PM
A guy at work asked for my help finding some info on a gun his brother in law has. I've been working with them trying to buy their german ww2 anti-tank gun. Hoping this helps persuad them some more.
Here's the info I got from him, I'm hoping to go check it out this weekend while I look at the tank rifle.
Info on Sotck:
Adolf Loesche
Hannover
Waffen-U
Sporthaus
It has an octagonal barrel. 9M/M is marked on the barrel. When he opens the barrel up, the number "35" is seen. I assume from this it is a break action.
Anyone got any ideas?
single barrel? duel barrel?
it may be a drilling. there are a copuple shops in england that deal in this type gun. google english gun shop.
drine
07-14-2010, 09:50 PM
A guy at work asked for my help finding some info on a gun his brother in law has. I've been working with them trying to buy their german ww2 anti-tank gun. Hoping this helps persuad them some more.
Here's the info I got from him, I'm hoping to go check it out this weekend while I look at the tank rifle.
Info on Sotck:
Adolf Loesche
Hannover
Waffen-U
Sporthaus
It has an octagonal barrel. 9M/M is marked on the barrel. When he opens the barrel up, the number "35" is seen. I assume from this it is a break action.
Anyone got any ideas?
I saw a couple of Adolph Loesche drillings in Germany back in the 80's. Double-rifle. A pic would be good. I remember the drillings the Luftwaffe carried at one point. VERY EXPENSIVE NOW. Seems it was 2 shotgun barrels with a 7X57 underneath, IIRC. Either way a Loesche drilling might be worth a few coins.
weasel_master
07-21-2010, 10:14 PM
Went and checked out the gun tonight. Remembered to bring the camera, forgot to bring the memory card though.
Here's a little more info. On the barrel, and the reciever are some stamps. They are a crown, with the letter "B" below it, followed by another crown and a "U". It is a single barrel, break action, smoothbore. The hammer is broken, it looks like it was pinned and brazed at one time. The brass tag on the buttstock reads:
Adolf Loesche
Hannover
Waffen-u Sporthaus
To open the gun, you push the lever below the trigger guard 90 degrees and then pop open the gun.
Any ideas?
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weasel_master
07-21-2010, 10:15 PM
The pictures aren't that great as I had to use my phone.
wonderwolf
07-22-2010, 11:29 AM
Gallery rifle or maybe a economy version of a schutzen rifle?
JBinILL
07-30-2010, 12:18 AM
These are generically called garden guns,similiar to the many parlor guns from the end of the 19th century.They were for shooting pests and small birds and game.This one being marked 9mm is for the 9mm Flobert round or one of the 9mm shotshells.There is one very similiar to yours pictured in the 1911 ALFA catalog.These are found with various markings on them like the "hardware store"shotguns and rifles found here in the U.S.that were stamped with a sellers name rather than the makers.The markings on this seem to indicate that is what the markings are rather than a manufacturer.
There is some availability of 9mm shotshells but there were two different lengths of these.
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