Pilkguns

Steyr Factory Tour
(April 2003)

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	Outside of the Steyr factory. Come inside...
	A rack of LG10Ps ready for stocking.
	This is a Steyr Halflinger (means "workhorse"), used by half of the European armies in the 60s and 70s.
	LP5s getting ready to go.
	LG10 frames sitting around waiting for the next shift to take over.
	The lady assembling the cylinders.

	When we first come in we find the lovely Sigrid working at her desk
	Or is the reality that she gets the lovely Petra to do all her work ?
	Katharina does the advertising and marketing...when she's not playing with the dog, Mickey Mouse or her lovely baby
	Karli does the engineering and design work
	Like most of us he spends way too much time on his computer getting stupid error messages
	Today he was working on the shroud cutout for our LP50s' scope mounts, available exclusively from Pilkguns
	Here we see the progression from rough casting to final product of the LP10 frame
	Here is a blueprint of the LP5
	Walking back into the machine area...a view North...
	And a view South
	Hermann Schuster assembling LG100 absorber parts
	A look at some of the part bins
	Here are some trigger parts for the LP5
	Here are some freshly marked LP10 frames ready to their insides installed
	Which Brigitte Schibani is ready to do
	And they all have an excellent view of the River Enns out the window
	Opening this box we find a bunch of LG100 trigger guards
	Herbert Wagner and Roland Brandstetter assembling pistols
	Close up of Herbert putting on a rear sight
	And putting them in the box for the next person
	Johann Zottl doing final trigger adjustments
	Here is a rack of LG100's ready to have their stocks put on them. (Ready to be "bumblebeed"?)
	Here the cylinder endcaps are installed and then are pressure tested
	Here are some LG100's ready to be chronographed
	Next they go into the test room.
	Where the pellets are fired at the test targets and man's best friend tries to catch the slow ones
	Katharina here is adjusting the velocity...
	and locking it into place once it is correct
	Gerd-Carlo doing the same. It's nice to see the C.E.O. having such hands on involvement with his product
	Multi-tasking...doing two lanes at once
	Now Katharina is doing the paperwork...
	and doing the paperwork is not gender specific
	And just so they don't forget the purpose of it all...there are a few signed posters in the place from product users
	Jochen Anschutz and his finance manager Anton Wahler were there checking out their partial ownership in the company