Dreyse Füsiliergewehr M60

[harry potter]

Although not a Mauser i have noticed the interest here for the Zündnadelgewehr so I though i would share some photos of mine and contribute something to this forum. Sömmerda manufacture. I have added photos to this tread, I posted them further down in several posts below.

 

[chrisftk]

That's a nice old soldier. These are a cool model, I like the slightly shorter barrel. It makes it a little handier. Is the needle intact?

 

[harry potter]

That's a nice old soldier. These are a cool model, I like the slightly shorter barrel. It makes it a little handier. Is the needle intact?

Detailed photos of the bolt and bolt components. There is a potion of the needle still intact, protruding from the brass protection tube. In a post further below Chris says that an unbroken needle is perhaps 3 inches longer than shown here.

 

[chrisftk]

Yeah, this one is broken. It's pretty common.

 

[harry potter]

Yeah, this one is broken. It's pretty common.

Do oyu know what the length is supposed to be when intact?

 

[chrisftk]

I'll check one of mine for exact length but probably about 3 or so inches longer than yours.

 

[Spartaner545]

It's great to see that more pre 1871 rifles. Thank you very much for showing your Füsiliergewehr. It appears to be one of the very first ones. Produced in 1861 and issued to the troops in the same year.

The unit marking reads as the "Füsilier-Regiment "Fürst Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern" (Hohenzollernsches) Nr. 40".

 

[harry potter]

Thank you so much for the insight into the regimental marking. So "40" is the Regiment number and "103" the weapon number?

 

[Spartaner545]

Yes, and the 1 is the company number.
So "F.R. 40. 1. 103" stands for the "Fusilier Regiment "Fürst Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern" (Hohenzollernsches) no. 40, 1st company, weapon no. 103."

The slightly confusing part is that this doenst mean that the prussian army had at least 40 fusilier regiment. The regimental number was a consecutive number that included all types of infantry. Most of them were regular infatry regiments but there were also some grenadiers and some fusiliers. The regiments 33-40, 73, 80, 86, 90 and 122 were all fusilier regiments.

 

[PrayingMantis]

Thanks for sharing, very interesting one. I would love to add it to the reference if you can get more photos.

 

[PrayingMantis]

Great! Yes, post them here (or all in a new thread) and I’ll put a link in the reference thread pinned at the top of this forum.

Yes of course. How does that work? I post more photos here and you will move them over?

 

[harry potter]

Photos of the cleaning rod.

 

[harry potter]

Additional photos.

 

[harry potter]

And more...

 

[Telperion]

That's a nice one! Very interesting! Thank you!