Both of mine with soft springs effortlessly produce 11ftlbs!
I used to shoot one of these .25 cal Gem 'giants' nearly 40 years ago and I remember how you could follow the pellet's loopy trajectory as it made its majestic way to the target. But it struck tin cans with a hell of a wallop.
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Both of mine with soft springs effortlessly produce 11ftlbs!
Hi chaps,
Difficult to tell from the pic but it looks like it has a flat section trigger guard/cocking link?...possibly an LZ type Gem made by Friedrich Langenhan?
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Hi Danny,
Thanks, yes it does help. It's not a Marck Gem as I'm pretty sure that all JM Gems had a Tbar latch and that one clearly has a dollshead latch. Don't think it's an Eisenwerke gun either as the bigger EGs usually have a scroll on the spur off the back of the triggr guard/cocking link, but I may be wrong?...I just have an inkling that it is an LZ type Gem.
Guns looks like it had a two tone finish with traces of nickel plating at the cylinder/stock junction?...so probably earlier rather than later - pre WW1?
OP, are there any marks or stampings on the gun? these would usually be on the flat along the top of the octagonal section of the barrel.
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