Jaeger

[Stophel]

Well, I finally found it, in a round about sort of way.

But yes, it probably was meant to imitate Italian/Spanish style. As is the gilded barrel band. :wink:

 

[Stophel]

A nice Italian gun for comparison: http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images61_max/11705.jpg

 

[dyemaker]

Thanks for replying. I think that brass mount may not even serve as one it's just a faux mount. Hard to tell from the photo. This is what I thought after looking at some Spanish fowlers. I was not that far off base afterall. Some time ago I was searching for photos of octagonal to round barreled Jaegers. They are not common at all. The Junk rifle (the Gunmaker's name) on the littlegun.be info site under Czech firearms caught my eye also. I like longer barrels and had the bright idea to use a slightly longer 35- 37" octagonal to round barrel thinking it would balance better. Someone had stated before that Jaeger rifles were meant for the shorter barrels and shouldn't be tampered with. The thing is that the photos I did find had barrels no longer than average. I had raised the question of longer octagonal barrels some years before on another forum. I was told that it was totally out of place. Sorry, I did not post the AmericanLongrifles. link thinking I would be breaking a rule. I try not to do that. I find all of your posts educational. Little by little I'm learning. The shortcut is much better than digging for info which may or may not have merit.

:hatsoff:

 

[Marc Adamchek]

Swampy, I looked at this again...and again, and again......It truly is a beautiful rifle. The hand-made side plate is downright gorgeous, Roy should feel proud of that. Well, he should feel proud of ALL of it, but you know what I mean.

The star seems to suit the rifle nicely, although I can't imagine it's HC for a German gun? What do I know. Now the floodgates are open and Stophel is probably going to drown me in my own ignorance!

 

[Roy]

:grin: Thanks!! The compass is correct.. a total pain in the butt, but correct :haha:

 

[40calFlintlock]

This past December, I purchased a Jaeger built by Nathan Stephenson. Although not historically accurate at 40 caliber, it has a 31 inch swamped barrel, and a lot of carving and detail. It shoots well off-hand using a .395 rb, 60grs FFg powder and .018 pillow-ticking with Crisco grease for lube. I will spend more time benching it for a 'true load' to get sub 1 inch groups at 25yds.

I purchased it as an alternative to my 40inch barrel 40cal flinter for hunting in dense woods. I am seriously contemplating a .58 Jaeger because this one is so nice.

 

[Bob J]

This past December, I purchased a Jaeger built by Nathan Stephenson. Although not historically accurate at 40 caliber, it has a 31 inch swamped barrel, and a lot of carving and detail. It shoots well off-hand using a .395 rb, 60grs FFg powder and .018 pillow-ticking with Crisco grease for lube. I will spend more time benching it for a 'true load' to get sub 1 inch groups at 25yds.

I purchased it as an alternative to my 40inch barrel 40cal flinter for hunting in dense woods. I am seriously contemplating a .58 Jaeger because this one is so nice.

Would love to see photos...

 

[Stophel]

Don't for a moment think that .40 caliber is not "historically accurate". Granted, they're not all that common, but they do exist. Sometimes they are considered lady's rifles or boy's rifles. Also there are Vogelpirschbuechsen. Bird stalking rifles. Smaller caliber rifles for shooting birds and presumably other small game. :wink:

 

[Stophel]

My favorite one. This one is a whopping 7mm caliber. :wink:

 

[40calFlintlock]

I'd love to share them. BUT I cannot figure out how to post them. I have yet to find the instructions. :surrender:

 

[rabjr]

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/255033/

 

[medbill]

Thats a dandy Steve!

 

[szihn]

Thanks Bill

 

[40calFlintlock]

Hi Swampy,

I tried the link posted for screencast, but it did not work. :surrender:

Any other ideas? I'd like to share the photo's of my Jaeger with "The Forum."

 

[rabjr]

You need to upload and save images to one of the free sites such as photobucket on the web unless you have your website where you can store images. Once you have an account and images stored somewhere you can then come here and post the images address info here which will enable everyone to see your pic's.

 

[Rifleman1776]

I visited two museums over the weekend and have several pics of Jaegers I'll post later. I believe, at least one, commom myth about old rifles were shown to be nothing more than bull butter according to what I observed.

 

[Rifleman1776]

I visited two museums over the weekend and have several pics of Jaegers I'll post later. I believe, at least one, commom myth about old rifles were shown to be nothing more than bull butter according to what I observed.