Building a Jaeger rifle

[Elnathan]

There are a few Jaegers in the 40" range - one benchrest rifle is pictured in RCA, and another in Robert Held's Age of Firearms. There are a bunch of wheellocks with meter-plus barrels in the Graz armory, though I don't know if they are rifled or not. I'm pretty sure that there is at least one with a 38 or 39" barrel in Wolf's Steinschlosse Jaegerbuschen - it has a kind of forward facing hook where the front sling-swivel would be, allowing it to be braced against a wall or branch and leaned into.

Pity about the twist rate. What is the breech diameter?

 

[Rifleman1776]

I have an excellent article from a 1970s American Rifleman magazine I used to send to anyone. But, it is on an 'A' drive small floppy and since my 'upgrade' to Win 10 I cannot seem to send anymore. Have to work on that. Enneyhow....there was a great deal of variety among European Jaegers (not just German) with respect to barrel lengths and calibers. Huge calibers were not the norm, that is a myth even though there were some. Smaller (.45-.50) very popular. I hope to be able to share that article again one day.

 

[Elnathan]

Occurs to me that I've seen a couple long-barreled jaegers on Hermann Historica and Cowans as well.

Old Ford,

The person most likely to be able to help you here is Chris Immel, who posts under the handle "stophel", I think. He's largely disappeared from the interwebz these days, but still pops in occasionally. German rifles are his "thing" and it might be worth sending him a PM.

German rifle architecture is very well suited to dealing with heavy recoil, BTW - wide, flat buttplates, modest drop, and comb lines that are near parallel to the bore

 

[wulf]

Wow Dave. You sure make me want to try harder.

Wulf

 

[Erzulis boat]

Yeah I'm old all right and them guns kick a lot harder than they did 45 years ago. I had a 41-110 it had to go also. I have a 58RB gun. It kick pretty hard with 120 grs. But I can stand it for at least one match.

That's my load for my .58 PRB Jaeger, 120 grains.

Offhand, I can keep them all in a pie plate at 100 (most of them, haha!).

Recoil isn't punishing, and my "educated" guess figures it's plenty for California Blacktail.