Hello, I read the thread on the Dreyse guns in the recent post and was hoping you guys could help me out.
Several months ago, I was walking around an antique store in Anchorage, my usual residence, and came across a bayonet. It was tagged as a M71 Mauser bayonet, but it didn't look quite right. I decided to buy it and after taking it home, found it didn't really fit the M71, so I dug around in my books and discovered it really went to a Dreyse Fusiliergewehr and too bad it didn't have a scabbard. I pointed out to my wife and some friends that I now had a bayonet that I'd never have a gun for.. I've never seen any needle gun at any of the Gun Shows I've been to, which is a fair amount.
Well, this winter I,ve just started my first year of snow birding to Arizona and make it to a show in Tucson, where I run across my first Dreyse needlegun. The seller told me a bit about it, being a M60 Fusiliergerwehr. The price was a bit stiff for me, but I loved looking at it and wished I'd hit the lottery or something. It wasn't until that night that I realized that that was the rifle I have a bayonet for in Anchorage, brain still cold from being up there I guess.
Well, this last weekend I attend a show in Phoenix and there it is, still waiting for me. And to make the long story a bit shorter, bought it. Now for the help part.
Basically, I always buy guns to shoot, odder the better and this one is in really good shape, except I'm pretty sure the needle is too short.
Could anyone please let me know what the correct length for this model would be, how I can repair the present needle and if possible, how to make new ones to save the origional. Also, I'd love the specifics of how you make the cartridges, does anyone make that football shaped bullet mold or is there a subsitute and how you make the sabot. Cartridge length and such.
I've been trying to find information on the web, but haven't been very successful. I did find a site in German that is a little helpful and has a really cool YouTube attachment on the Needlegun. Looks like something from a German History channel or documentary.
http://www.schmids-zuendnadelseite.de/index.html
Anyway, any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated, I loved that thread on the needleguns. Regards, Guns
Several months ago, I was walking around an antique store in Anchorage, my usual residence, and came across a bayonet. It was tagged as a M71 Mauser bayonet, but it didn't look quite right. I decided to buy it and after taking it home, found it didn't really fit the M71, so I dug around in my books and discovered it really went to a Dreyse Fusiliergewehr and too bad it didn't have a scabbard. I pointed out to my wife and some friends that I now had a bayonet that I'd never have a gun for.. I've never seen any needle gun at any of the Gun Shows I've been to, which is a fair amount.
Well, this winter I,ve just started my first year of snow birding to Arizona and make it to a show in Tucson, where I run across my first Dreyse needlegun. The seller told me a bit about it, being a M60 Fusiliergerwehr. The price was a bit stiff for me, but I loved looking at it and wished I'd hit the lottery or something. It wasn't until that night that I realized that that was the rifle I have a bayonet for in Anchorage, brain still cold from being up there I guess.
Well, this last weekend I attend a show in Phoenix and there it is, still waiting for me. And to make the long story a bit shorter, bought it. Now for the help part.
Basically, I always buy guns to shoot, odder the better and this one is in really good shape, except I'm pretty sure the needle is too short.
Could anyone please let me know what the correct length for this model would be, how I can repair the present needle and if possible, how to make new ones to save the origional. Also, I'd love the specifics of how you make the cartridges, does anyone make that football shaped bullet mold or is there a subsitute and how you make the sabot. Cartridge length and such.
I've been trying to find information on the web, but haven't been very successful. I did find a site in German that is a little helpful and has a really cool YouTube attachment on the Needlegun. Looks like something from a German History channel or documentary.
http://www.schmids-zuendnadelseite.de/index.html
Anyway, any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated, I loved that thread on the needleguns. Regards, Guns