Kipplauf ID

[Steff]

I was just rummaging through the Meopta catalogue when the picture of a Kipplauf caught my eye.



I doesn't seem to have a classical opening lever but rather an 'opening trigger' in front of the regular trigger. And it seems to have manual cocking.

Another picture of what is obviously the same rifle.


The scope mount looks like a Blaser saddle mount but a considerably longer (towards the rear) version.

The bascule shape doesn't fit any of the known Kipplauf rifles (Blaser K95, neither old nor new, Merkel K3 or K5, Haenel Jäger 9, Krieghoff Hubertus).

Does anybody know which rifle this is?

 

[HonestJohn]

No but that massive plastic shoe trigger, likely to release/break it, is goddamn ugly.

 

[Steff]

No but that massive plastic shoe trigger, likely to release/break it, is goddamn ugly.

It is! And to be honest I am more interested in the saddle mount. It has very low true halve rings, which seem impossible to get these days if they should fit onto a Blaser base rail.

 

[8x57]

No but that massive plastic shoe trigger, likely to release/break it, is goddamn ugly.

Do you mean the release lever not a trigger shoe?
I would have thought that it may be perhaps cast alloy or even machined steel rather than plastic, though its does look a bit plasticky doesn't it. At first I too though it looked absolutely pig ugly but it's sort of grown on me. Just curious now as to the maker, probably a small Czech artisan gunmaker is what I am thinking.