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fuhrmann
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Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?
15/01/09 02:38 AM

I am a bit at odds with the Drilling as it is made today.
The old-time Drilling was a side-by-side shotgun with an additional rifle barrel. But these guns were balanced and handled like shotguns.

Nowadays the Drilling is seen as a rifle, adorned with a biiig germanic scope ("you simply need 50 mm lenses for night hunting", stocked in the worst germanic way (humpback with a lot of drop, a steep "Kaiser grip" etc., fitted with a heavy full-lenght insert barrel etc.
High pressure rifle calibers will add weight.
So the drilling got heavy, in my eyes out of balance, OK for "Hochsitz" shooting, but pretty useless for decent shotgunning - remember that one barrel is always blocked by the rifled insert....

Having a new Drilling built to specifications is expensive.
So my only choice would be a pre-war Drilling, 16 gauge over 7x57R or 8x57IR.
One simply has to "bite the bullet" that 16 gauge shells may be hard to find, and that most pre-war hunting barrels were made for .318 bullets.

Fuhrmann

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Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	14/01/09 11:07 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	kevinh1157	27/01/09 10:33 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	88MauSporter	27/01/09 01:10 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Ripp	28/01/09 12:41 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	450_366	27/01/09 07:11 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	DM	22/01/09 11:22 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	22/01/09 11:36 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	DM	23/01/09 01:54 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	23/01/09 02:00 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Ripp	22/01/09 11:52 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	22/01/09 10:43 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	mickey	22/01/09 06:30 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	grandveneur	17/01/09 11:03 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Caprivi	17/01/09 02:03 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	luv2safari	16/01/09 02:43 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Birdhunter50	14/01/09 11:45 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	xausa	15/01/09 12:49 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	15/01/09 01:08 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	fuhrmann	15/01/09 02:38 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	xausa	16/01/09 11:24 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Daniel_Paydar	17/01/09 12:42 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	88MauSporter	17/01/09 04:58 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	450_366	15/01/09 02:56 AM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	dale	15/01/09 03:57 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	Der_Jaeger	15/01/09 10:55 PM
Re: Favorite All-Around Drilling?	WVTOM	16/01/09 12:34 AM

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