Your honestly opinion about this Jaeger

[hawkeye1755]

First i must apology the blurred pics.
Now tell me your honestly opinion about this Jaeger.

:hatsoff:

 

[brubincam]

where is the wood? :bow: :bow: :bow: real fancy

 

[PreglerD]

For my opinion to much Schnickschnack! :grin:

Regards

Kirrmeister :hatsoff:

 

[rabjr]

To fancy for me lol, I'd be afraid to touch it.

 

[temple]

wonderful piece of art. the only problem with art is that was never meant to be fired.

 

[RC]

what's it for? way to fancy almost gawdy! :redface: (you asked!) appears it should set in a glass case so people could pick which one design they want.. :shocked2: somebody took ALOT of time to do that,,just escapes me as to why? but it are an attention grabber! RC

 

[50cal.cliff]

Honestly, WOW but its too many frills for a user. As a looker theys alot to look at there! :wink:

 

[PreglerD]

It is a so called "Prunkwaffe", only made for looking at it and not for shooting.

:thumbsup:

Regards

Kirrmeister

 

[engravertom]

The carving behind the cheekpiece looks very provincial in design, not what one normally sees on a fine Germanic gun. Not sure what to make of it. The amount of carving and inlay coverage looks more like what one would find on an earlier wheel lock gun.

Looks like a lot of things don't quite fit.

Maybe the decoration was added later, sometime long after the gun was built?

:hmm:

Thanks for the pics

take care,

Tom

 

[romeoh]

Less sometimes is more IMHO.

Those days it was often, the more fancy you can afford the more´s your status.

Carlsbad or Vienna school or something else?

 

[Mike Brooks]

That's a new made gun. Although heavily decorated, it is really poorly done. :shake:

 

[LRB]

Mike, I totally agree, to both statements. I recognize some of the hardware, and the lock looks like a Davis to me.

 

[Okwaho]

hey there chicken man,I do believe you've got it.It sure is gawdy though isn't it.Wick,I believe you're right on that lock also.I guess the best way to describe this gun is decoration gone amok.
Tom Patton

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Nice to look at, but a bit too fancy for this child.

 

[roundball]

"...Now tell me your honestly opinion about this Jaeger..."

Gaudy, pretentious, over-the-top, etc

 

[Many Klatch]

It can't be shot, it's too expensive. Looks like a waste of good parts and a lot of work.

Many Klatch

 

[tg]

I think it would have looked much better plain without all the carving/inletting way to much and out of sinc, muddled, at any rate not like anything I have seen before, the highly decorated French guns shown by Lenk often leave virtualy no wood exposed but it comes together this does not to my eye.

 

[bob1961]

zonie made that fer ya, huh :rotf: ....nice er gun....ivory or pearl in lays :v .............bob

 

[Ridge]

If you don't want it, I'll take it.

The biggest negative thing that I see with it is the wire inlay. It just looks more like scribble than a laid out pattern. It's going everywhere.

 

[colmoultrie]

I think it could use a bit of carving or inlay work to bring out its special qualities...