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Help with "Albert Staehle" Rifle

Zaphodb17
I need info on a rifle, Austrian/German manufacture, falling block, single shot, exposed hammer. Unknown caliber, but close to .44. No. 1468 is engraved on the steel butt-plate.
On the barrel top are the words: "ALBERT STAEHLE K.K. HOF BUCHSENMACHER IN WIEN". In looking up German to English translation, it looks like "BUCHSENMACHER IN WIEN" means "gunmaker in Vienna".
I can't find any info on this rifle in books or online, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  • perry shooter
    Hello Look at the top of your post on the ones marked STICKY this will tell you how to post pictures. This is most likely the only way we will be able to help other then that it will all amount to a WAG.

    OK hear goes my WAG it is a 10.3X65R mm Baenzinger Popular European Target Cartridge case is a DWM No. 164 the 405 winchester case can be used [:p]
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  • Zaphodb17
    Thanks, I'll try to get some photos up. Just for the record, there's nothing wrong with WAGs and SWAGs.
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  • MP
    The only thing I have is that Albert Staehle is he worked in WIEN (Vienna) 1865-67. The K.K. is a royal appointment so he must have been a well respected gunmaker.
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