Voere

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Voere Präzisionstechnik GmbH

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founding 1948
Seat Kufstein , Austria
Number of employees 60
Branch Weapons manufacturer
Website www.voere.at

The Voere Precision Technology GmbH , based in Kufstein in Tyrol is a manufacturer of hunting and precision weapons, weapons parts, such as hoods , hand clamps , magazines , fuses, visors and scope mounts , and in another division precision components for industries HighTech, electrical, plant and machinery .

history

The company's roots are in Germany. Ing.Erich Voetter founded together with his partner Paul Restle in 1948 a metal processing company based in Furtwangen (later Vöhrenbach) in the Black Forest. The company was named "KOMA" after the locations in Konstanz and Markdort. After the name KOMA had already been used in other industries abroad, the decision was made in 1955 to create the art name VOERE from the name of the two company founders VOEtter and REstle. Before production started with football and bicycle pumps, lighters, flint stones and pasta machines were traded among other things. In 1950 air pistols began to move towards weapons production . In 1960, the product range was air rifle , KK - single shot , KK-KK guns and semi-automatic expanded. In 1965 the company Sportwaffen Tyrol in Kufstein, which had got into trouble, was bought up; Alfons Ruhland, who joined the company in 1964, was in charge of the production of repeater rifles and over and under rifle shotguns. All small-bore weapons will continue to be produced in Vöhrenbach until the plant was closed in 1987. The main sales market was Scandinavia. After the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in 1986, hunting was banned in Scandinavia due to the atomic contamination. The production was sold to Mauser. In 2002 Voere entered the electrical industry; complex devices are still being built today. Sven Ruhland has been a managing partner at Voere since 2007.

Products

Since 1950 the company's core business has been the production of hunting and precision weapons. The development and production of series-ready hunting and sporting rifles takes place entirely from individual parts manufactured in-house. Many of these individual parts - magazines, triggers, safety turnbuckles, wing locks and telescopic sight mountings - are supplied parts for other branded weapons. In 1972, Voere developed the world's first anti-terror weapon AM180 with a laser aiming device in the precision weapons segment . The introduction of this weapon for the Austrian executive was discussed in parliament. In the hunting rifle segment, Voere builds modular bolt action rifles with manual cocking, semi-automatic machines and combined weapons ( shotguns , BBF).
In 1965, the first BBF with a free-swinging ball barrel was developed and produced. For this purpose, the barrel pair is only guided by a grain saddle, apart from in the system, which allows the barrel to expand forward through an 8/10 mm gap. The so-called "climbing the warm rifle barrel" is prevented. In 1992 Voere brought an internationally recognized development of the caseless cartridge onto the market. Voere was the first manufacturer to make commercial ammunition and weapons of this type available on the market. A hunting rifle of this type became internationally known under the name Voere VEC 91 . The special technical feature of the caseless ammunition 5.7 x 26 mm UCC is the electronic ignition. Also known is the Voere LBW model that was presented in 2003.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of former weapon models from Voere, official manufacturer website ( Memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Peter Pilz , Die Panzermacher , page 33, ISBN 978-3-900351-10-6
  3. ↑ Ken Warner, Gun Digest 1995 , DBI Books Inc., 1994, page 225, ISBN 978-0-87349-157-0
  4. ↑ Tom A. Warlow, Firearms, the law and forensic ballistics , 103, ISBN 978-0-415-31601-9

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