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Hi,

I thought i'd share some pics. and a bit of the "story" of my drilling..

The gun is a Krieghoff Sempert Drilling 16-16-8x57jrs that was made in Oct. 1935...

It came to me in 1983 from someone i knew, that took it out of a castle durning WW2. He took it durning a "sweep" looking for German soldiers.

By the time i got it, it was pretty beat up with dented shot bbls, blueing loss and a stock that was broken in several pieces, also the scope was missing, but the rifle bore was near perfect!! It had not been fired much, and it spent most of it's life getting knocked around in a barn in California. So, i set out to "restore" it and along the way turning it into to the gun "i always dreamed of owning".

When i was about 9 yrs old i was looking at new Shooters Bible my father had bought. I, for the first time noticed some guns called "Drillings" and fell in love! I tried and tried to get dad, who has also always liked the idea of combo guns, to buy one, but we were much too poor to beable to afford something like that. I had the idea in my mind for many many years after that, to "one day" have one for my very own!

After looking over what i had, i made the missing stock pieces, repaired the stock and formed 20 cases out of 7x65R cases i already had on hand. I then headed to the range to see how well it shoot, and i couldn't believe how well it grouped! I decided right there to have what work i couldn't do myself, done by those that i thought was "best" for that part of the job even if it would be costly... I'm very pleased with the way it came out. I picked everything from the checkering to choke tubes..

The stock blank i used came to me as a personal gift from Andy Garner, who sawed all of "Pachmayrs" wood for many, many years. It's a "naturally grafted" Bastone/Circassian walnut that is very rare. Andy told me he had only seen two of them in over 45 years of sawing, so he "saved it for something special". He went on to tell me that he found the first one after only sawing for 2 or 3 years, and figured they weren't all that rare, so he sold it for $7.00! He never saw another untill this one....

Over the years it's been a VERY effective gun for me, putting tons of meat in my freezer!!

I've hunted with my drilling from the costal temporate rain forest,

to Texas desert country,

to moose and bear ect.. in Alaska,

to whitetails in the midwest and beyond...

It's been a great hunting companion since the first time i pulled the trigger on it and i can't even tell you how much pleasure it's brought me over the years! I've owned several drillings since this one, but this one is the "keeper".....

Anyway, i hope you enjoyed the picture show...

DM