Greetings From The Wild West

[luv2safari]

I found this site when searching for 8X57JR loading data and am glad I found you. I'm old, 75, and I have used drillings here in the mountains of Nevada since I was 12 to take mule deer, chukar partridge, sage grouse, forest grouse, and valley quail. When I was a kid the seasons all opened close to the same time. We seldom hunted deer only, since we could depend on kicking them out while hunting chukar or forest grouse (dusky, a variety of blue grouse that stay 7,000 feet or higher).

We do what you call "rough hunting" I believe. We walk up our birds in tough volcanic mountains and still hunt deer...slow constant movement while glassing. A drilling was just the ticket. I worked like a dog, gardening for a family friend one summer, and he gave me a Charles Daly/Sauer sidelock-side cock drilling in 12ga and 30-30. I've owned and traded well over 100 drillings in my lifetime. I get something that catches my eye at a good price and keep it until $ome want$ it more than I.

I shoot mostly drillings, buchsflinten, and SXS shotguns, almost all 16ga. At my age now I am looking for an affordable and light kiplauff.

I'll be dropping in and enjoying how you hunt...shoot...stalk.

 

[Morkai]

Evening,

Welcome in.

 

[Skinny78]

Howdy

 

[scotch_egg]

I don’t normally do a welcome post, although read most, as several people do reply and find I’m late to the party.

So welcome to the SD. I was taken by your hunting methods and varied quarry on the same outing. Quite different to how we stalk deer in the U.K.

 

[T.eddie]

Welcome from Essex UK, looking forward to hearing any stories and seeing any photos of your hunting

 

[User00052]

I am very much an armchair admirer of drillings. Unsure how the licencing of them works over here but they always catch my eye in auctions and videos etc.

 

[User00043]

Welcome from Rutland UK

Paul

 

[bullet chucker]

Welcome to the site lots of us are around your age laddie'

BC.

 

[davy crocket]

Welcome from Scotland

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I am very much an armchair admirer of drillings. Unsure how the licencing of them works over here but they always catch my eye in auctions and videos etc.

I am a Cov kid with 2x drillings but am based in Germany now.

 

[luv2safari]

I'm a drilling and combo gun addict. These are my two latest members of the family:
Please let me know if I should have posted in a different section.

Kreighoff 16/16/7X57R Trumpf Primus Dural with Zimmerman 22 Hornet insert

Circa 7/38 BSW (Simson during Nazi Germany)) Mdl 35BD Cape gun and SXS two barrel set in 16 ga and 8X57JR

 

[luv2safari]

I found a link to the 1937 BSW catalog that lists the two barrel set.

I took my last deer with a pre-war Tribel drilling in 16 & 8X57JR wearing a pre-war Hensoldt 4X scope. Basically I stalk with a single shot. I also like my bolt guns, but enjoy taking game with classic guns. We also have state owned game management areas where they allow shotgun slugs only for deer hunting, and a couple of my drillings were regulated to shoot original Brenneke slugs at 80 meters to the open sights. I keep my four remaining boxes of 5ea 65mm Brennekes in a lock box in a safe in a locked room of a vault under the house.

 

[User00052]

I'm a drilling and combo gun addict. These are my two latest members of the family:
Please let me know if I should have posted in a different section.

Kreighoff 16/16/7X57R Trumpf Primus Dural with Zimmerman 22 Hornet insert

Circa 7/38 BSW (Simson during Nazi Germany)) Mdl 35BD Cape gun and SXS two barrel set in 16 ga and 8X57JR

These are absolutely stunning!

 

[luv2safari]

These are absolutely stunning!

They're why I live under a bridge, surviving on road-kill and rice.

I sincerely thank you all for your warm welcome.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

I found a link to the 1937 BSW catalog that lists the two barrel set.

I took my last deer with a pre-war Tribel drilling in 16 & 8X57JR wearing a pre-war Hensoldt 4X scope. Basically I stalk with a single shot. I also like my bolt guns, but enjoy taking game with classic guns. We also have state owned game management areas where they allow shotgun slugs only for deer hunting, and a couple of my drillings were regulated to shoot original Brenneke slugs at 80 meters to the open sights. I keep my four remaining boxes of 5ea 65mm Brennekes in a lock box in a safe in a locked room of a vault under the house.

FYI, Under the third reich the factory was taken from the jewish Simson family, and was renamed several times under Nazi and later Communist control. I have one of theirs.

 

[alberta boy]

I'm a drilling and combo gun addict. These are my two latest members of the family:
Please let me know if I should have posted in a different section.

Kreighoff 16/16/7X57R Trumpf Primus Dural with Zimmerman 22 Hornet insert

Circa 7/38 BSW (Simson during Nazi Germany)) Mdl 35BD Cape gun and SXS two barrel set in 16 ga and 8X57JR

Beautiful rifles , and welcome from Alberta .

AB

 

[luv2safari]

Beautiful rifles , and welcome from Alberta .

AB

AB

This elk was taken in Alberta before Covid and politics made hunting Canada a bit of jumping through hoops. It's definitely not our fault that governments get crazy.

 

[rhine hunter]

I found this site when searching for 8X57JR loading data and am glad I found you. I'm old, 75, and I have used drillings here in the mountains of Nevada since I was 12 to take mule deer, chukar partridge, sage grouse, forest grouse, and valley quail. When I was a kid the seasons all opened close to the same time. We seldom hunted deer only, since we could depend on kicking them out while hunting chukar or forest grouse (dusky, a variety of blue grouse that stay 7,000 feet or higher).

We do what you call "rough hunting" I believe. We walk up our birds in tough volcanic mountains and still hunt deer...slow constant movement while glassing. A drilling was just the ticket. I worked like a dog, gardening for a family friend one summer, and he gave me a Charles Daly/Sauer sidelock-side cock drilling in 12ga and 30-30. I've owned and traded well over 100 drillings in my lifetime. I get something that catches my eye at a good price and keep it until $ome want$ it more than I.

I shoot mostly drillings, buchsflinten, and SXS shotguns, almost all 16ga. At my age now I am looking for an affordable and light kiplauff.

I'll be dropping in and enjoying how you hunt...shoot...stalk.

Welcome from Germany! Great to hear someone in the wild west is actually using and old German Drilling in its original use - hunting small game and deer at the same time.

Many hunters over here still use Drillings. One buddy just switched from bolt action rifle to a Drilling after 40 years of hunting.

I used to have a Sauer Drilling in 16ga and 7x65R. Just could not feel comfortable with the safety and barrel switch operation . Ended up using a very light Kipplaufbüchse as every day tool.

Whish you all the best and many more great moments and hunts with your good old stuff.

 

[luv2safari]

Welcome from Germany! Great to hear someone in the wild west is actually using and old German Drilling in its original use - hunting small game and deer at the same time.

Many hunters over here still use Drillings. One buddy just switched from bolt action rifle to a Drilling after 40 years of hunting.

I used to have a Sauer Drilling in 16ga and 7x65R. Just could not feel comfortable with the safety and barrel switch operation . Ended up using a very light Kipplaufbüchse as every day tool.

Whish you all the best and many more great moments and hunts with your good old stuff.

Hello RH

My favorite drilling is my later model Kreighoff 16gauge/7X65R Trumpf Dural with a 1.5-6 Zeiss. It is so light and handles so nimbly that I use it as an upland game gun. It also has the safety on top, next to the rifle cocker. We walk up the birds...chukar, quail, forest grouse, and sage grouse...with pointing dogs. The bottom photo shows my Sauer 16 & 6.5X57R drilling.

 

[rhine hunter]

Hello RH

My favorite drilling is my later model Kreighoff 16gauge/7X65R Trumpf Dural with a 1.5-6 Zeiss. It is so light and handles so nimbly that I use it as an upland game gun. It also has the safety on top, next to the rifle cocker. We walk up the birds...chukar, quail, forest grouse, and sage grouse...with pointing dogs. The bottom photo shows my Sauer 16 & 6.5X57R drilling.

Great pictures, thanks! Yes, Krieghoff is a class of its own. I once had a Bockbüchsflinte (combined O/U) from them in Dural. Sold it to a 80 year old Bavarian hunter who finally got the approval from his wife to buy one...

I am sure even over here not many are using a Drilling how you do it - without optics and as a shotgun. Some did it on driven hunts to be ready for both small and bigger game. I had my Bockbüchsflinte for that purpose with a small red dot on it. Now with ever increasing numbers of boars, everyone switched to bolt rifles (me too).

Keep on posting about your kind of hunting and gear - really enjoy it!