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I'm pretty certain I've posted this before, but I'm certain that you'll forgive me if I have. My dad bought this little .22 Walther in 1930, along with the 'scope on it, in a Cork gunsmiths. It is an oddball, to say the least - if you leave the bolt handle in the horizontal position, it's a 5-shot magazine-fed auto-loader. But you can turn the bolt down, and make it into a single-shot or repeater bolt action. It's called the Walther Sport Model 2, and has a slightly heavier barrel than its predecessor, the Model 1.
It also has a Mauser-style flag safety, and a pair of drilled and tapped holes in the tang in preparation for a nifty and very rare tang sight. The previous model had a shotgun-style safety there. The barrel has a heavier profile on my old rifle, too.
About twenty years ago I got the impression that the recoil spring was finally wearing out, after a gazillion shots. To my amazement a fine gentleman on gunboards.com, whose name is lost now, sent me a spare that he had acquired from Numrich - he had bought one for his own rifle. I fitted it, and found no difference at all - it was still sluggish and not wanting to operate every time. I changed the cartridge to another type from the same brand, and all was well. I later found out that the German company had mis-labelled a factory lot of around 100,000 rounds as 'standard' when they were, in fact, subsonics. This little gun eats high-speed stuff like a brand-new rifle. I learned to shoot with it back in 1952, when I was just six, with my dad teaching me, of course, and it's been around me ever since.
It also has a Mauser-style flag safety, and a pair of drilled and tapped holes in the tang in preparation for a nifty and very rare tang sight. The previous model had a shotgun-style safety there. The barrel has a heavier profile on my old rifle, too.
About twenty years ago I got the impression that the recoil spring was finally wearing out, after a gazillion shots. To my amazement a fine gentleman on gunboards.com, whose name is lost now, sent me a spare that he had acquired from Numrich - he had bought one for his own rifle. I fitted it, and found no difference at all - it was still sluggish and not wanting to operate every time. I changed the cartridge to another type from the same brand, and all was well. I later found out that the German company had mis-labelled a factory lot of around 100,000 rounds as 'standard' when they were, in fact, subsonics. This little gun eats high-speed stuff like a brand-new rifle. I learned to shoot with it back in 1952, when I was just six, with my dad teaching me, of course, and it's been around me ever since.