Wilhelm Collath Drilling (Pics)

[oberndorf]

Sharing some pics of my Wilhelm Collath, Frankfurt AO Germany. Drilling 20gax20gax7x57R. Made in the early 1900's.

Horn trigger guard and opening lever, wing type safety.
























The rifle rear sight is hidden in the rib, pushing the rifle selector forward pops up the rear sight and the rear trigger fires the rifle.

 

[James1873]

Very classy unit

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

Welcome to the Black Forest. Beautiful piece. I'd like to know the original history of that one. The panel showing the deer with the holes in 'er looks rather like someone's score on a running deer qualifying target for hunting permit. Maybe a friend of the 1st. owner ordered that drilling for him as a friendly razz.
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[inthehizzy]

Too beautiful to risk scratching up while hunting: the ultimate dilemma.

 

[SuperCub]

Too beautiful to risk scratching up while hunting: the ultimate dilemma.

I'd hunt it in good weather. Why buy it otherwise?

 

[9.3mauser]

Too beautiful to risk scratching up while hunting: the ultimate dilemma.

It's been on the go for 100 yrs. A few more scratches won't hurt it.

 

[buzzmagoo]

From the look of the screw heads it hasn't been dicked with . A very classy S/S .

 

[hoytcanon]

Beautiful piece... I would definitely walk the woods with it on crisp, clear autumn day... imagine the satisfaction of downing game with a rifle designed to do so over a hundred years ago.

 

[catnthehatt]

Beautiful piece... I would definitely walk the woods with it on crisp, clear autumn day... imagine the satisfaction of downing game with a rifle designed to do so over a hundred years ago.

Totally agree!
what s beautiful firearm!
Cat

 

[jimmyjazz]

Truly a beautiful gun, love to have something like that.
Enjoy it.

 

[Snowballs]

Outstanding!

 

[Ashcroft]

Very few like that left, even in Germany. Most didn't survive the war and if they did they wound up as war souvenirs.

 

[brybenn]

Gorgeous.

 

[oberndorf]

Welcome to the Black Forest. Beautiful piece. I'd like to know the original history of that one. The panel showing the deer with the holes in 'er looks rather like someone's score on a running deer qualifying target for hunting permit. Maybe a friend of the 1st. owner ordered that drilling for him as a friendly razz.
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I was also wondering about what looks like bullet holes on the deer.

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

I was also wondering about what looks like bullet holes on the deer.

The two big holes in the deer compared to the others suggest to me that they were slug hits on the bugger. I shot a lot of running deer shoots back in the day and it was not hard to get decently tight groupings when I was on me game. Many of the targets at these shoots would show the same horizontal pattern of shot placement.

Beauty drilling.

 

[Northshore]

Beautiful firearm made with excellent craftsmanship. Many many man hours went into making that gun.

 

[Zedbra]

What a gorgeous piece, I am picturing carrying it myself.