Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
I picked up this Flobert Fallinblo .22 (I think it is a .22) made in Belgium. It is just a wall hanger, but I liked the looks of it. It was in terrible shape with a cracked stock and rust so deep I wondered if I could get it off. However, does anyone know anything about these rifles? Any info would be appreciated.
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Re: Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
Here is a better side view of the rifle.
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Re: Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
Nice rifle, but I am not familiar with it, Belgium had, and has a thriving firearms manufacturing industry made up of many small shops. SO many have come and go over the century's that I can't keep track of them.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
It's what's known as a 'parlor rifle'. Shooting Flobert rounds indoors was a popular pastime around the turn of the century. A minimal backstop was needed compared to even .22 shorts. Flobert rounds were propelled by only the primer, like the Aguila Colibri rounds of today. Gentlemen often bet on their shooting in after dinner matches during the'social season' at upper crust society parties.
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Murphy was an optimist.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a
sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the
dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an
equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects - Robert A. Heinlien
Murphy was an optimist.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a
sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the
dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an
equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects - Robert A. Heinlien
Re: Flobert Fallinblo .22 rifle
My lgs sells RWS 6mm Flobert rounds. Looks like J&G has them as well. http://www.jgsales.com/6mm-floberts-.22 ... 49466.html
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis