HEGE Mississippi Rifle

[Sut Lovingood]

Anybody know about the quality of a Hege reproduction 1841? I know of the German company but were these made in Germany? I've delayed in buying a repro 1841 but am looking again.

[Michael Comer]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

According to their website, their muzzleloaders are Pedersoli's but all I see listed related to ACW is the '61 Springfield.

[MarionRifles]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

They have a 41 on their site if you look under "muzzleloaders, rifles,free & military". It's listed as a Whitney and goes for around $1,300 US Dollars.Sounds a bit expensive to me.

[mslaird]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

It is called a "E. Whitney 1841 Match" rifle. It is listed as a .54 caliber and it has the 1855 Rifle type I long range rear sight on it. This would be very similar to an extremely rare rifle manufactured by Whitney under contract in 1855. The only original of this type of rifle that I know exists of this model is in The National Park Service's collection in the Springfield Armory museum. The original also has a short front band rather than the long front band that Hege used on their reproduction. I am not absolutely positive of the actual numbers produced but it was not very many at all.

Here is a link to the NPS Springfield Armory Online Catalogue page:
http://www.museum.nps.gov/spar/page.htm

[Craig L Barry]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Okay, what is HEGE an acronym for? Don't think I have heard of this outfit...

[Sut Lovingood]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Thank you all for the responses. I was coming to the conclusion, though not because of solid proof concerning their 1841, that these were infact Italian. Many of you seem to have read between the same lines as I.

Craig,
I'll admit that before I saw this one for sale I was unfamiliar with Hege as well. I don't know that it is anything other that the company name. Hege company seems to be in Germany, all else is up in the air with me.

[Marine Mike]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

HEGE is German and their URL is http://www.waffen-hege.de/shop/index.php?
There used to be a gun shop in Texas that catered to the High Street trade that was a licensed importer for them. Information on that is about a year old.
Mike Stein

[J.H.Berger]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Hege is an repro arms importer in Ueberlingen at the Bodensee. The guns like revolvers and rifles are made in Italy in contract for them by Uberti, Pedersoli etc.

[Craig L Barry]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Gott im Himmel! Yes, that would be the Euroarms US 1841.

[Sut Lovingood]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Thanks all for the information. I saw one listed in Lodgewood's website but had never heard of Hege. In the end it doesn't seem I'd been missing much.

[Johan Steele]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

I handled the one at Lodgewood... don't waste your coin as it was considerably heavier than my EuroArms and IMO WAY over priced for what looked like nothing more than an EA w/ a long range rear site.

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Hallo!

Gleich... that was my guess too.

I guess it is the same for the Germans, etc., the sundry importers cotract with the standard Italian makers for what they bring in to sell.

Curt

[J.H.Berger]

Re: HEGE Mississippi Rifle

Hallo!

Gleich... that was my guess too.

I guess it is the same for the Germans, etc., the sundry importers cotract with the standard Italian makers for what they bring in to sell.

Curt

Aye that is correct!