Wheelock hunting rifle/Mueller Buechse

Matchlock · 14th June 2009, 03:13 PM

Because that's very common to all ramrods with bone tips - the barrel needed cleaning out the barrel now and then, even with better quality arms. The ramrod of your puffer should be equally equipped.

The Maucher ivory carvings and guns are in the Städtisches Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd:

http://www.schwaebisch-gmuend.de/60.php

Please look also here:

http://www.beyars.com/de_verbeinunge...n-michael.html

and for the 1992 catalog of the Mauchers' works:

Angelika Ehmer: Die Maucher. Eine Kunsthandwerkerfamilie des 17. Jahrhunderts aus Schwäbisch Gmünd. Hg. vom Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Gmünd. Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger GmbH: Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1992. 237 S. mit 255 Abb.

and:

http://naxos.bsz-bw.de/rekla/showData.php?meta_id=54

Best from Lower Bavaria,
Michael

14th June 2009, 03:13 PM	#6
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Because that's very common to all ramrods with bone tips - the barrel needed cleaning out the barrel now and then, even with better quality arms. The ramrod of your puffer should be equally equipped. The Maucher ivory carvings and guns are in the Städtisches Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd: http://www.schwaebisch-gmuend.de/60.php Please look also here: http://www.beyars.com/de_verbeinunge...n-michael.html and for the 1992 catalog of the Mauchers' works: Angelika Ehmer: Die Maucher. Eine Kunsthandwerkerfamilie des 17. Jahrhunderts aus Schwäbisch Gmünd. Hg. vom Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Gmünd. Einhorn-Verlag Eduard Dietenberger GmbH: Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1992. 237 S. mit 255 Abb. and: http://naxos.bsz-bw.de/rekla/showData.php?meta_id=54 Best from Lower Bavaria, Michael