I have an interesting story. Here’s how it was told to me;

As many of you know, the German people were often disarmed at the end of WW 2. There was a US Master Sergeant in Germany in some town where weapons of all kinds were piled up for destruction. He took 2 very nice drillings to ship back to the USA out of that pile with the permission of his commanding officer.

He took the 2 drillings apart and put them in a duffle bag and shipped them back to New York to his brother. His brother took the 2 forward parts and the 2 rear parts out of the duffle bag when he got them, and shipped them to Iowa to another brother. When they got to Iowa, the 3rd brother took them and paired them up in feed bags. He kept them for many years that way. The brother came to see him a few years later, and one feed sack was given to him, which returned to N, Y. with him. That brother moved to Florida in 1966, where he died.

The brother that lived in Iowa kept his sack and when he got sick he gave it to a friend. The Iowa brother later dies too.

That friend gave me the drillings parts asking me if I could “put them together”. It was only then that we found that the 2 guns were mismatched. In other words, drilling #1 has drilling #2s barrels, and the brother that moved to Florida had drilling#2s stock and receiver, but drilling #1s barrels.

So the 2 halves DON’T fit together.

Now the 2 halves have been abandoned by the friend. I have them now.

So……..
If anyone out there likes drillings and wants to rebuild a set of barrels, I will sell you the receiver and stock for a good price.

Or if there is any interest in the barrels of the other gun, to be used as parts, let me know also.