Tony rosgaard
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A little story from Denmark.
A few years ago, a good friend of mine vent to the junkyard with some trash. While unloading he saw some old broken guns sticking up from the trash. He’s not into guns himself, but brought them home to me in case I could use some parts from them. One of them was a two band Enfield and the other was a old Jaeger rifle. At the time I didn’t know anything about Jaegers, but decided to do a little history digging. The gun is a Swedish made Jaeger in Cal. 78 riffled. It was made for civilian use in about 1740-50. Original in was a flint lock, but later it was converted (1840-50) to percussion and got a “Tap” added on the brenchplug for expanding the projectile bottom (Don’t know the English term for it.). I was aware that the gun should be restored but knew also that I did not have the skills for this kind of job. (Se pic.)
Luckily I knew an old guy who had done some restoration on guns before and I therefor treed to convince him of the need to save this piece of history. At first he cursed both me and the broken gun when he saw it, but later he came around and ended up, giving it a try. Half a year later he called me and told me to pickup my piece of junk. This story could have been very tragic, but here the gun it is now. Saved and shooting in Denmark.
Hope you like it.
Best from Denmark
Tony
A few years ago, a good friend of mine vent to the junkyard with some trash. While unloading he saw some old broken guns sticking up from the trash. He’s not into guns himself, but brought them home to me in case I could use some parts from them. One of them was a two band Enfield and the other was a old Jaeger rifle. At the time I didn’t know anything about Jaegers, but decided to do a little history digging. The gun is a Swedish made Jaeger in Cal. 78 riffled. It was made for civilian use in about 1740-50. Original in was a flint lock, but later it was converted (1840-50) to percussion and got a “Tap” added on the brenchplug for expanding the projectile bottom (Don’t know the English term for it.). I was aware that the gun should be restored but knew also that I did not have the skills for this kind of job. (Se pic.)
Luckily I knew an old guy who had done some restoration on guns before and I therefor treed to convince him of the need to save this piece of history. At first he cursed both me and the broken gun when he saw it, but later he came around and ended up, giving it a try. Half a year later he called me and told me to pickup my piece of junk. This story could have been very tragic, but here the gun it is now. Saved and shooting in Denmark.
Hope you like it.
Best from Denmark
Tony
