GEM Air Rifle

[Arminius]

Hi gents,

Just managed to get to the little rifle and take a few photos.

https://imgur.com/a/YRUu1PX

Points I noted:

1. "GEM stamped on the top of the octagonal portion of the barrel
2. Crossed muskets with L and Z either side stamped next to GEM
3. 'Manufactured in Germany' stamped on the underside of the barrel
4. Barrel face stamped with 19629. Also 'FLZ' logo
5. 19629 also stamped on other face of the pellet gate
6. 42 rings in the spring... I think
7. I tried to photograph inside the piston

The rifle is in .177 cal. I think it is smooth bore, but am not sure as there looks like rifling, but very shiny and faint.

I would love opinions on this rifle, its age etc.

I shoots fine, and thanks to a member here, I realised that I had adjusted the trigger adjustment screw and the sear was slipping, I turned it anti clockwise a few turns, and now it doesn't slip.

Looks like two tiny holes on the stock, and I want to make sure there is no wood worm.

Thanks for looking

[WebleyWombler]

A furniture restorer friend of mine bakes small bits of wood in a microwave oven for a couple of minutes if he thinks there might be woodworm present. Then treats the wood as normal

[DCL_dave]

Hi gents,

Just managed to get to the little rifle and take a few photos.

https://imgur.com/a/YRUu1PX

Points I noted:

1. "GEM stamped on the top of the octagonal portion of the barrel
2. Crossed muskets with L and Z either side stamped next to GEM
3. 'Manufactured in Germany' stamped on the underside of the barrel
4. Barrel face stamped with 19629. Also 'FLZ' logo
5. 19629 also stamped on other face of the pellet gate
6. 42 rings in the spring... I think
7. I tried to photograph inside the piston

The rifle is in .177 cal. I think it is smooth bore, but am not sure as there looks like rifling, but very shiny and faint.

I would love opinions on this rifle, its age etc.

I shoots fine, and thanks to a member here, I realised that I had adjusted the trigger adjustment screw and the sear was slipping, I turned it anti clockwise a few turns, and now it doesn't slip.

Looks like two tiny holes on the stock, and I want to make sure there is no wood worm.

Thanks for looking

Your gun is most likely post WW1 maybe 1920's to 1930's, made by Fritz Langenhan (The son of Freidrich...i believe?)

It is what is known as a composite type Gem (because the later production techniques meant the compression tube/cylinder was no longer a single casting/forging as in earlier Gem types but is made of composite parts, compression tube, endplug with breech jaws, cocking slide, all separate parts screwed together.There are twos screw front and rear in the cocking slot, undo them and the cocking slot and trigger mech pulls away from the compression cylinder with the cocking slide, the piston should have a leather seal?...These can be nice shooters if not too loose.