Do German's just do it best?

[Altitude sickness]

For those interested. I’m on their email list from owning one and asking questions. Not a favored client.

this is to inform you that I will be travelling in the US from October 19th – 28th. Please let me know if you are interested in meeting me in Texas or later that week in Phoenix/Az.
Please excuse the short notice, but sometimes things work fine unexpectedly.

Let me know please, it would be my pleasure
Best
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Mag. Daniela Fanzoj
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[MS 9x56]

None of that fancy stuff will like very good after being dragged through the brush for a few years. Never cared for forendtips and monte Carlo stocks.

Give me a lithe stock with a Schnabel fore end any day or even better a mannlicher stock. All my rifles get dragged through the brush. Such is the lot of a hunters gun.

 

[yamoon]

Were not the famous Orberndorf sporters made with actions with cut outs pulled from the production line and slicked up. I have examined many over the years, all had cut outs and provision for stripper clips. Cut outs don’t necessarily mean repurposed military actions.
Mike

 

[yamoon]

I’ll add my 2 cents on G Wagons. I bought a new one in 2007, it now has 42,000 miles on it. Nothing but problems from the day we bought it, too many to detail here. I will never own another German auto.
Mike

 

[yamoon]

My love affair with single shots started in 1983 with a Ruger #1V in 25-06, my love affair with German single shots started with this rifle in 1986. The largest caliber I have seen in this rifle is 9.3x74. The strength and simplicity of the action has always impressed me. Why a larger version was never made and chambered in one of the DG cartridges escapes me.
Mike

 

[Red Leg]

Were not the famous Orberndorf sporters made with actions with cut outs pulled from the production line and slicked up. I have examined many over the years, all had cut outs and provision for stripper clips. Cut outs don’t necessarily mean repurposed military actions.
Mike

Exactly

 

[mark-hunter]

I do not doubt the story, but it would be interesting to understand how that trigger arrangement helped.

I am few days late in my answer, as I was in the north of the country on the rifle match.
This is from the book "German Hunting rifles of the Golden Era 1840 - 1940", by Hanns Pfingsten: If I am not mistaken, a trigger was arranged on a thumb, (like a safety on a modern over under shotgun). I am not sure was it for all Kaisers guns or only on some.
This below is screenshot from said book. Button trigger developped for Kaiser.

 

[Schroeder]

Mr Mannlicher worked at Jeffery & Co. as well. And the current Steyr-Mannlicher is a peach of a rifle.

The current batch of Rigby has a Mauser action made in Germany and the rest is made in England. I cannot think of a better collaboration.

Me neither.
I hunt over a German Shorthaired Pointer, and an English Cocker Spaniel.
There is no better team combination…