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AussieMike
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Re: Right Gun for Opening Day
05/10/04 12:36 PM

Drillings are quite expensive in Oz but a few people use them for pigs - they use SSG (OO buck) and a slug in the shotgun barrels and the rifle barrel.

Most of our hunting is not limited by seasons (not even for most deer species, apart from waterfowl) so they make sense for hunting where rabbit and fox are the main quarry but you may come across a pig or goat.

If you are looking for a place to hunt on private property and are working in a country town, a drilling makes a good conversation piece and seems so refined and innocuous (when compared to a black plastic stocked, scoped big bore bolt action) that people are more likely to let you onto their property.

Many of the drillings here were brought out by post war migrants. The stories they tell about how they kept them from being confiscated by the Nazi's are fascinating. Unfortunately, most are 16ga and an unusual European calibre which puts people off purchasing them as ammo can be very difficult. Australia is a .223/.308/12ga sort of country, despite the impression you may get from this site.

mike

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Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	11/09/04 12:53 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	NE450No2	22/09/04 06:36 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	23/09/04 01:59 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	NE450No2	30/09/04 06:25 AM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	01/10/04 02:35 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	NE450No2	03/10/04 02:17 AM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	03/10/04 12:37 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	AussieMike	22/09/04 02:40 AM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	23/09/04 02:06 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	AussieMike	05/10/04 12:36 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	Dark_Helmet	20/10/04 11:13 AM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	Taos	23/09/04 11:17 PM
Re: Right Gun for Opening Day	luv2safari	24/09/04 05:25 AM

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