The replica! Can you help?

[PhatMan]

Robin,

Excellent

Looking forward to see the pictures

Have fun & a good weekend !

Best regards

Russ

[zooma]

Well done Robin - you have completed your replica and it works!

More good news for you - I have found a mint ( as new) handbook for the Model 75 Match Air Rile complete with warranty document.

This looks like a new and un-read copy and the warranty information is blank - so maybe you could try to register the warranty on your "new build" to see how good the German sense of humour really is

This handbook does not have either the Original or Diana badge/logo printed on it, so maybe you could produce your own "Robin Replica" logo and keep it with your (almost) unique Model 75.

[RobinC]

Thanks Bob

That's great, a genuine handbook, the last link, I can look to set up the trigger now, she's not bothered about shooting it, but still said the trigger was a bit spongy!

I have a 40 year old Gunguard case for it, although the original was in a handmade wooden case with club and national stickers from all over Europe, wonder it that's still with the gun?

I'll get her to do a shoot with it, just to see how it compares with her modern one, but surreptitiously it will be an MPL round! Shot at 10 mts, to give a fair handicap!

Have Fun
Robin

[4ndy]

Hi Robin

Just found this thread.

You will have to put some picture up when you have it all finished.

Take care

Andy

[RobinC]

Come on Andy, you must have forgotten!!

Not only was it finished, but "some one" (YOU!!!) contacted me and wanted info on a home made Original 75 rifle case with a GB team sticker on, and it turned out it was the actual case from Pam's Rifle, that was you Andy, and you graciously donated the case to us!!

But that was not just the biggest coincidence with you! Some months later you were selling your 75, and brought it to me to see it, as it looked like an early one, and I said I'd like to see it. No, it was not Pam's original stock, but coincidences of all time!!!!! I recognised that it was actually her original action!!!!!!!

I also confirmed that later with dates and numbers, and I could see internal factory modded repair details, from repairs that the factory did at a shoot in Germany!

Andy then graciously agreed to swop that action with us for the restored action I had used on the replica.

Thanks Andy, and once you had sold it it would never have been traceable or recognised as Pam's after that


So meeting Andy has been a big factor in ending a 7 year hunt, and has got a major part of Pam's original Original 75 back, the action, and the case.

I believe the stock, as a very short special was binned long ago by a "must be as made" collector, sad that those people do what they do with no understanding of the history, as it was the very first UK imported Original 75, and the only one used by a GB team member in Internationals, and that won international medals!

If any of you you are restoring, and particularly match guns, PLEASE be very careful to fully research their history. This one was ours personally, but its not the first historic rifle I've rescued, I was also very fortunate to be able to rescue a historic Ex Malcom Cooper 300mt rifle, and restore it, and donated it to the NRA museum at Bisley. That I rescued from some one just before they started to remove match stickers including ones for the world championships, that Malcolm won!

But, the replica stock is finished, Andy has seen it!!! But I'm not able to add pics on here, I am to computers what Putin is to the humanities, but I will send some pics to Andy by email, and perhaps he can add them.

Have Fun
Robin

[4ndy]

Thanks Robin

It was my pleasure returning it to you and Pam.

I must say though If I had known about the online search you had going on for it when I first contacted you all those months before, knowing how much it meant to you both I would have brought it round sooner rather than it sitting in my cabinet. As you may remember, at one point I was considering remodelling the case to take one of my BSA Light Patterns....... OMG..... so pleased I decided against it.

Here are some photos of the rifle with the case when I had it and then with Pam.
Robin has asked me to share these photos on here.
Robin has sent the case away to be restored and is hopefully having some replica stickers created to match the ones that were removed, luckily Robin still has a case with the original sticker on to copy off.

Hopefully we will see the case on here in all its glory

Finally just to say thanks to Robin for his generosity with what he did finding me a special 10mtr rifle and then working his magic on it to make it even better.... and yes its a Walther.



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[RobinC]

Thanks Andy

The case was made for Pam by a club mate, so I knew it was so clearly hers as soon as I saw it, and the same guy made me a case for my 65 pistol which of course I still have, and the clincher was they have the same make clasps!

I'll restore the case when it reaches the front of the queue in my jobs to do, I've just finished building a Barnard P .223 Rem. into a Walther KK500 Alutec stock for 300 mt rifle, my bucket list project, and its a stunner!

The 75 case will be easy, the difficult part will be making period stickers. And researching the ones we would have had!! I have some that will be the same on my old pistol case, as we both did much the same events, her rifle, me pistol, but I will have to get the memory working on what we did, and then research to find sticker designs.

Have Fun
Robin