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Exchanging e-mails with a new owner of a Winchester Model 94 Big Bore rifle today and he asked: �who designed the Big Bore cartridges?� and then: �who designed the Angel Eject Model 94?� I told him an engineer for Olin named Herman Bockstruck was to thank for the cartridges and the rifle. Bockstruck received a number of interesting patents for Olin including a shotgun shell for the military and law enforcement along with an interesting variation on the boat tail bullet. I have read Bockstruck was an avid shot gunner - but cannot remember where. As a big fan of the Angle Eject Winchester Model 94 (but not of the rebounding hammer and the cross bolt safety) I am wondering if Bockstruck was a rifleman or an engineer with an assignment. Did anyone on the forum know him very well?
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Never met him, nor do I know him.
But if you Google the name, and then look for his work, you will find a lot of it over the years.
And a lot of it very solid.!
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Yes, he seems to have been involved in everything. The patent office also has his name on a lot of documents.
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I grew up in Alton, Ill and my dad worked with Olin in East Alton. I learned to shoot at the Olin/Winchester Rifle/Pistol Range in East Alton. Herman Bockstruck was a good friend of my fathers and I met him quite often at the range. My father has passed away so I don't know if Mr. Bockstruck is still alive today, though I did have an opportunity to visit with him at a gathering about 5 years ago in Alton. At the time he appeared to be doing quite well. I expect he is getting up in years if he has not passed on. You are right, he was one heck of a weapons engineer, handloader and shooter.
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