Anschutz Info
Just picked up an Anschutz .22 Routledge bore. Gun is just about like new. 5 shot clip, barrel is 23". Stock is NOT walnut, maybe birch with walnut stain and does not have a buttplate. Butt is cut horizontally and apears to be stained black. Has a bead front site and no rear site
. Left side of receiver has serial #204xxx,J G Anschutz GmbH Waffenfabrik Ulm/D.Germany. Top of receiver has the Anschutz logo.
Top of barrel at rear has the word Zepher in a double circle with the words 22 long shot beneath on left side. Top of receiver marked Stoeger Arms Corp. New York. No other marks. Cannot find any info on this in new Krause or the Blue Book. Is anyone familiar with this an maybe has one? I would like to know about when this was made and the approxomate value, and any other useful info. Thanx IB
trukr
. Left side of receiver has serial #204xxx,J G Anschutz GmbH Waffenfabrik Ulm/D.Germany. Top of receiver has the Anschutz logo.
Top of barrel at rear has the word Zepher in a double circle with the words 22 long shot beneath on left side. Top of receiver marked Stoeger Arms Corp. New York. No other marks. Cannot find any info on this in new Krause or the Blue Book. Is anyone familiar with this an maybe has one? I would like to know about when this was made and the approxomate value, and any other useful info. Thanx IB
trukr
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this can't be 1 of a kind. not my luck. somebody musta heard or know?
trukr0 -
Couldn't find anything in my references regarding your smoothbore firearm, looked under both Anschutz and Stoeger.
Since it's a magazine fed repeater, my WAG is that it's based on the Anschutz 1400 hundred series rifles.
The only suggestion that I can make is for you to borrow some of the Stoegers's "Shooters Bible's" from the 60's ( my guess? ), and see if you can find it listed in the catalog section.
Your Library might be able to arrange a interlibrary loan on the back issues, or since it was a periodical, it might be on a digital database? A bunch of folks are selling this stuff on CD's nowadays.
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I'm pretty sure this is not an actual .22 RIFLE.!
I believe it's designed for the .22Long shotshells, those little shotshells that very much resemble a .22LR cartridge - but where the projectile is "replaced" by a projectile-like crimping that will open and release the shots - much in the way a 12 gauge shotshell does.
Hunters in Germany, and shooters in Europe have used these smoothbore shotguns for fun, small birds, killing small rodents like mice and such in barns and the like.
This kind of firearm is the kind that the .22 shotshell is designed for - if you fire a .22 shotshell in a .22LR-rifle - the rifling will give extra spread of the lead-shot, effectively minimizing the effect of the shot.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.0 -
I had one of those, at least 30 years ago, maybe up to 50. Branded Zephyr, it was an Anchutz action. They were marketed by Stoeger. At the same time, Stoeger marketed the MO-SKEET-O Target System - a miniature clay target trap and miniature clay targets for same. As I recall, the MO-SKEET-O targets were just that. All I saw were - all black, about 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter, shaped just like a scaled down regular clay target. Maybe proportionately a little taller in proportion to diameter - than a regular clay target.
The gun itself - was just as you described. No butt-plate. Just the bare wood end. As I recall there were a few cross-wise grooves across the center portion of the butt surface, to prevent slippage on the shoulder. The barrel was chambered .22 L.R.. It had essentially a .22 calibre bore for about six to eight inches from the breech (It seems that first segment of the bore was rifled, but I can't recall for sure) then the bore opened up to about like a .410 bore shotgun. I can't recall whether or not the barrel was choked. The only 'sight' was the conventional shotgun bead at the muzzle. The gun was intended for (but not limited to) use with .22 L.R. shotshells. At the time - they were all of the pointy folded crimped style.
That's as much as I can offer. Hope it helps some.
Best!
MAD DAWG0 -
An addendum. The Magazine will work with conventional .22 L.R. ammo. The trigger was actually constructed of folded metal - good heavy/thick folded metal - but still folded metal.
In the 40s and 50s (and probably much earlier) you would find shooting galleries open to the public. You would be walking down the steet in the downtown area of any Major City. There would be a door into an 'office' or 'store' type building. But when you went in, you were on the shootER end a long narrow 'room' shooting range. These guns (Remington had a model that was often seen there too) were used. For a fee (I don't remember just how much - my Dad was paying for it then) you bought X number of cartridges and targets. Looking downrange from the firing line - there was a table or counter across the width of the room. These rooms were wide enough to accomodate several shooters at a time - perhaps up to a dozen. From just in front of the counter a wide (wall to wall) tarp extended all the way down range - anchoring high on the back wall. This was not necessarily intended to catch spent shot - but to catch 'missed' targets in a manner that enable them to be re-used. The fine (number 12 as I recall) spent shot, the debris from the shattered targets, and the unbroken targets all fell on this canvas tarp, which had sufficient 'sag' in the way it was hung to be a soft landing and to cause the materials landing on it to 'slide' down to the low area which was about half way down the room. I was well under 10 (I believe about 6 or 7 - I had my first hunting license at 7) years old when my Dad introduced me to shotgun/moving target shooting in these establishments in downtown Seattle. I don't knew of, or even heard of anyone being injured in one of these establishments. I know I was VERY young - but there was no hassle about me shooting. Of course Dad stood over me and was responsible for seeing to it that I handled the gun carefully and safely, and he could reach right down and intervene or grasp the gun if started to move in any unsafe manner. And, needless to say, Dad held me responsible for being careful and safe. I don't recall him ever having to do anything, other than give me instruction and tips. By then I had already been shooting rifles and pistols, since I honestly can't remember when. I do not remember firing my first shots with either of those - I was so young - it just seems that I always have.
So much for the so called good old days. Exposure, training, responsibility, who needs that. After all, we have more than enough bureaucrats and lawyers to go around. Now you probably know more than you wanted to know.
Again, BEST!
MAD DAWG0 -
Maddog, Happy, Rufe, thanx for the input. I figgered this was a "barn" or "garden" gun. I have a bunch of the shotshells, not too hard to find. Next thing is to find some old Stoeger cat's, and try to look it up. I'm thinking this is from the 60's, give or take a bit. These things are jus like wimmin, the chase is better than the "catch".............sometimes. Nice story about thise younger days, Seattle no less. Prally get locked up for that nowadays.[8D]
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