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I will have to pull the forend off and take a look. It's defiantly a converted military rifle, as opposed to a factory sorter.

I don't know if the grip is ivory or bone. Anyway to tell?

Tom,

Nice rifle! I would have been severely tempted myself, as have a thing for German rifles, among others.

A 14 twist will normally stabilize short 100-grain lead-cored spitzers, and the 100-grain Speer Hot-Cor is about the shortest, if you can find any. The 100-grain Hornady Spire point will also usually work, but apparently Hornady just discontinued them.

While there are slight differences between the 6.5x52R and .25-35, a friend of mine has a nice little German break-action in 6.5x52R and has no problem loading for it with standard .25-35 brass and dies.

Nice, indeed! I'm a closet fan of Germanic-styled rifles too. I don't think I ever saw a Sharps Borchardt treated like that. It would have followed me home too.

Interesting under lever treatment. I've only ever seen pics of them converted like that, never in person. As for the ivory vs. bone, the only thing I know is to touch it (in an out of sight location) with a red hot wire to determine plastic vs. ivory (plastic will melt, ivory will burn). (It looks like ivory from where I'm sitting. Either way, it looks nice.)

Thanks for the kind words. I do need some load data for 87\90/100 gr bullets if anyone has data available.


I discovered last night that the rear peep has a fold down inner peep with a smaller diameter. When it's folded forward, the remaining peep is a nice ghost ring. I will shoot some pics in a couple days.

Typical setup on a Lyman tang sight, and a lot of early Lyman 48's too. If the stem is threaded for a screw-in aperture, I would stick one in, but that's me. All too often I find that that ghost ring entertained by those old Lyman tang sights becomes a "no ring" under certain field conditions.

Wow.

Great looker. I like the overall look of that one. You did well on the price I think.

Nice find Tom, I would probably have bought it and been happy with the price. Nice Rifle!

The bottom pic has the preferable triggers but the one you have can be alright.