Blaser hunting rifles
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1957 |
| Seat | Isny in the Allgäu |
| management | Christian Socher, Thomas Seeger |
| Number of employees | approx. 500 (2018) |
| sales | approx. 80 million (2018) |
| Branch | Weapons manufacturing |
| Website | Blaser GmbH |
The Blaser GmbH , headquartered in Isny is a manufacturer and distributor of hunting weapons such as rifles (bolt action), combined arms , guns but also of precision weapons and hunting and outdoor clothing .
Hunting weapons
Blaser uses industrial processes to exclusively manufacture rifles, primarily hunting weapons, not traditional weapons in the sense of handcrafted hunting weapons. A characteristic feature of Blaser is the hand cocking, which allows loaded weapons to be wielded with the lock released. The weapons are often characterized by a high degree of modularity. Barrels of various calibers can be changed very quickly by the operator himself.
history
The company was founded in 1957 by master gunsmith Horst Blaser (* 1932). At first, various over and under rifle shotguns were developed and built. The Blaser 60 , based on the Diplomat over and under rifle, was the first German hunting rifle that could be manufactured almost entirely with machines. In 1971 the company had around 40 employees. In 1985 Horst Blaser sold the company, which at that time had around 60 employees, to the entrepreneur Gerhard Blenk. In the following 12 years the company experienced its greatest growth, the workforce almost tripled. During this time Blaser took over the traditional hunting rifle brand Mauser from the armaments company Rheinmetall.
In 1997, Blaser and the Swiss SIG group merged. SIG was the manufacturer of the Swiss assault rifle and the parent company of the weapons manufacturers Sauer and Hämmerli. In 2000, SIG parted with its arms business and the division was sold to entrepreneurs Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier. The same owners are behind the individual companies Blaser Jagdwaffen, JP Sauer & Sohn and Mauser . Furthermore, the weapons manufacturer SAN Swiss Arms from Neuhausen am Rheinfall Lüke and Ortmeier belongs , as well as the trading company for “hunting and nature”, Kettner International GmbH , until 2006 . Lüke and Ortmeier were economically involved in TWE Vliesstoffwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Emsdetten, even before they joined Blaser and will continue to do so. Blaser Jagdwaffen employed around 470 people in 2016.
Blaser exports its products all over the world in high quantities, which were achieved primarily with the sales success of the Blaser R 93 straight pull repeater . More than 100,000 units of this rifle were sold within the first ten years of production. Since 2003 and the launch of the Blaser F3 over and under shotgun, the brand has also been widespread among shotgun sport shooters. The Blaser R8 is the successor to the R93, which was successfully introduced in 2008 and was produced in parallel until 2016.
In 2011 Land Rover produced the Defender "Blaser Edition" in cooperation with Blaser-Jagdwaffen , a special model limited to 60 vehicles with a permanently installed gun safe.
Models
Hunting weapons
- Blaser F16 , over and under shotgun
- Blaser BD 14 , Bock Drilling with patented vertical block closure in different run combinations. Launched in 2014
- Blaser R8 , straight pull repeater (rifle), successor to the R93, market launch 2010
- Blaser F3 , over and under shotgun
- Blaser S2 , double rifle (single shot rifle with two ball barrels next to each other)
- Blaser D99 , triplets in different barrel combinations
- Blaser B97 , like B95, only with two locks (cock once, fire twice)
- Blaser K95 , single-barreled single barrel rifle
- Blaser B95 , combined single shot rifle in versions as an over and under rifle (bullet and shotgun barrel), Bergstutzen (two barrel barrels of different caliber) or double rifle ( two barrel barrel of the same caliber)
- Blaser R93 , previously best-selling repeater ( box ) of the company, designed as Geradezugrepetierer , Launched in 1993
- Blaser 700/88 , over and under rifle shotgun (ball and shot barrel), successor to the Blaser ES 700
- Blaser 750/88 , Bergstutzen (two ball barrels of different calibers)
- Blaser SR 850/88 , bolt action rifle (rifle), successor to the SR850
- Blaser BD 880 , over and under treble
- Blaser SR 850 , bolt action rifle (rifle)
- Blaser ES 700 , over and under rifle shotgun (bullet and shot barrel)
- Blaser B 75 , Bergstutzen (two ball barrels of different calibers)
Official / sporting weapons
- Blaser R93 Tactical , Blaser Tactical 2 , precision repeater for sports and government agencies
- Blaser F3 , over and under shotgun
- Blaser F16 over and under shotgun
Web links
- Blaser Jagdwaffen GmbH ( Memento from August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure Bockdrilling BD 14 from Blaser ( Memento from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 15.8 " N , 10 ° 3 ′ 31.6" E