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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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