Mr. Rudy Marent, who is now in his eighties, was the USA Olympic gunsmith from the 1950s to the 1960s. In 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he was even the sole official gunsmith for Hämmerli servicing pistols for many other national teams, as most athletes used the Hämmerli back then. Still battling cancer, Mr. Marent finally finished restoring my 1952 Hämmerli 100 after more than a year. I have no idea the pistol needed so much restoration work. He told me on the phone that it is ready to go to the Olympics! We have the trigger weight set to three grams. What is even more amazing is that he will send me copies and some originals, of his entire archive to me, so there will be a huge amount of paper documents coming my way. Among which including a rare free pistol instruction manual written for Hämmerli by Лев Вайнштейн (1916-2004), a multiple World and European Champion, and also an Olympic medalist. He was part of the original first USSR Olympic team that participated in the Olympics in 1952. Mr. Вайнштейн was a twenty times Soviet Union champion in various disciplines between 1947 to 1958, and ended up as coach of the Soviet Union Olympic Team in 1964. I will rather let you figure out how to translate and pronounce his name into English. Apparently no translation is the same, and even Mr. Marent pronounced his name totally different from most translations. He pronounced his friends name as Luv while most will pronounce as Lev. The most common translation is Lev Weinstein. Mr. Вайнштейн formed a good friendship with Mr. Marent. Public Post, since this concerns Olympics, not pro2A.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 22:27:59 +0000
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