Krieghoff K-32

[Billy Gross]

Congrats - I am a K-80/20 guy. On my last trip to get an annual service with Chris Maest in Princeton, we were discussing the K-32s. He said some of the original ones are starting to wear out. I would recommend having Chris or Earnest go over the inners before you put much more money into the gun. Billy

[Bill Murphy]

Bob, I guess we'll find out the truth when we read the Churchill book. John, what is the title of your upcoming book?

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Billy Gross

Congrats - I am a K-80/20 guy. On my last trip to get an annual service with Chris Maest in Princeton, we were discussing the K-32s. He said some of the original ones are starting to wear out. I would recommend having Chris or Earnest go over the inners before you put much more money into the gun. Billy

I sold it 😉👍🏻

[Bob Kuczynski]

I haven't had the guts to sell mine yet!

[Bill Murphy]

Chris Maest may think many of the older K-32s are wearing out, but my 49 year old example is not among them. Chris has worked on mine and didn't give me that warning.

[Bob Kuczynski]

mines pushing 47 and all I had to do was replace a cocking rod. that's it. I still use the old springs. no issues whatsoever.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by bob kuczynski

I haven't had the guts to sell mine yet!

The one in this thread is my second K-32 . I got the first one new from John Allem back in 83 or 84 I believe . Shot the heck out of it for about 7 years and sold it to a friend .

[Double Lab]

My K32, 7237 with a Vandalia rib, was my go to clays gun for years. Just after Dan Lammers left Ottsville many years ago he completely refinished the stock and forearm for me by removing that ugly red finish, bending the stock for cast-on, turning the forearm into a schnabel and giving the wood an oil finish to die for. While he had it he also installed K80 internal parts. The gun is built like a tank.

[Bill Murphy]

Daryl, I have a set of Vandalia barrels for my (now 50) year old K-32. Odd that now everyone has to have a high rib. Vandalia barrel guns could be bought for $1000 twenty years ago. How times change.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Daryl, I have a set of Vandalia barrels for my (now 50) year old K-32. Odd that now everyone has to have a high rib. Vandalia barrel guns could be bought for $1000 twenty years ago. How times change.

My first K-32 was one of the ones Allem cut down trap barrels rehung them etc etc etc and made 28" skeet barrels . I however had a K-80 Unsingle for trap and a 32" set of Vandalia barrels for trap doubles .

When I got the gun I picked out some K-32 refinished wood I liked and shot it that way a few months . Then swapped a friend for some more K-32 wood with a Allem made adjustable comb . I later swapped that wood back to the same guy for some K-80 Bavarian grade wood with the medium monte carlo . When the K-80 wood got on that gun my skeet class almost overnight went from B to AA/AAA and my trap class went from C/B to A/AA and 21-25 yards .

I shot that gun with the K-80 wood for a number of years and to be honest I've never had a skeet or trap gun shoot as well for me . But then I shot that gun at targets exclusively the entire time .