Shootinshyster
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6.5x55 and 12 guage Fabbrica Armi Isidoro Rizzini. (FAIR)
🪮 Combination gun.
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Is the shotgun barrel for despatch?
Shootinshyster
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No. The shotgun barrel is there so you can hunt different types of game on the same day. Sometimes there are no deer but lots of grouse. With a combination gun, you can remove the scope and hunt grouse.
With just the one chance with either barrel what happens in the event you need that second shot? Or with birds (a pair)
UpNorthMI
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That's a nice looking gun in a good combination, I also have a 6.5 x 55 combination gun. I like the removable scope.
I love a combination gun and have a bunch:
Savage .22lr / .410 - Sold it but wish I had not.
Valmet - .308 / 12 g - I've taken deer and grouse on the same morning.
Belgian - 6.5 x 57R / 16 g - Side by Side Cape rifle.
Blaser 97 BBF - 6.5 x 55 / 20 g and .30-06 / 12 g.
I also have a couple of drillings and mid caliber double rifles. I love to get out with a drilling / combination gun you never know what's going to be in the bag.
I love a combination gun and have a bunch:
Savage .22lr / .410 - Sold it but wish I had not.
Valmet - .308 / 12 g - I've taken deer and grouse on the same morning.
Belgian - 6.5 x 57R / 16 g - Side by Side Cape rifle.
Blaser 97 BBF - 6.5 x 55 / 20 g and .30-06 / 12 g.
I also have a couple of drillings and mid caliber double rifles. I love to get out with a drilling / combination gun you never know what's going to be in the bag.
PondoroPenguin
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I have a Chapuis - 30-06 / 12g and a old German 9.3x72R / 16g Drilling as well as a few double rifles.
Polar Lynx
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Type is rather popular here in Sweden as we hunt deer with unleashed tecels all autumn and a combination gun is then very handy when you follow the chase in dense cover. Most often deer will calm down after a while i.e. not overly scared by a small tecel and tend to wait in an opening or up on listening cliff or something. Then the rifle barrel is handy out to 60 m. The shotgun barrel is used for quick shots 10-20 m.
Gun type also used when going after a wounded boar.
The gun I use is for this as above is a one beeing somewhat ashamed of i.e. a really crude BRNO some 50 years old. Marks all over and can't rembember ever had it properly cleaned but a spray of oil before each new season. 7×57 R and 12. With break guns the 'R' is important in order to make a quick reaload. Use a detachable Aimpoint as a scope.
Gun type also used when going after a wounded boar.
The gun I use is for this as above is a one beeing somewhat ashamed of i.e. a really crude BRNO some 50 years old. Marks all over and can't rembember ever had it properly cleaned but a spray of oil before each new season. 7×57 R and 12. With break guns the 'R' is important in order to make a quick reaload. Use a detachable Aimpoint as a scope.
Heym SR20
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Don’t miss. Reloading is usually more than quick enough.
I have been using a ferlach made 7x65r / 16 bore for many years. It’s probably my go to gun. Shot many deer, a few pigs, ducks, phaesant and foxes with it over the years.
As a rifle it’s good for any normal stalking duties. I have never felt hampered by the single cartridge. It is fast to reload - as quick as any shotgun.
Having a shot barrel does give you good flexibility, and on more than one occasion when a buck has failed to show up, a walk by the duck pond has meant you don’t go empty handed.
Also superb travelling guns as they break down nice and small. And again lots of options in one little package.
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Rafter
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Shoot them one at a time.
You start from the premise that you need (a) to shoot straight and (b) not be greedy! In practice, reloads with the rifle are brisk enough (it's a kipplauf at heart).
The main thing with BBFs is only to load the barrel you plan to use.
Mine is a .222/20 ga, so I will typically load a .222 cartridge and stalk the wood for muntjac, then unload and switch to a 20 ga cartridge in case I see any squirrels on the walk back.
A pair of AC Contessa bases mounting a scope for deliberate rifle work and a red dot for snap shooting are a further aid to versatility.
For a proper day of mixed shooting, I take the drilling.
Mine is a .222/20 ga, so I will typically load a .222 cartridge and stalk the wood for muntjac, then unload and switch to a 20 ga cartridge in case I see any squirrels on the walk back.
A pair of AC Contessa bases mounting a scope for deliberate rifle work and a red dot for snap shooting are a further aid to versatility.
For a proper day of mixed shooting, I take the drilling.
Heym SR20
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Totally agree, last thing you want to do is pull the wrong trigger when shooting a fast flying phaesant as an expanding rifle bullet leaves rather a big hole, is expensive and goes a good long way.
With mine I work on basis scope on its a rifle and not for any flying game. I do though load the shot barrel. More than once I have bumped a close range fox and taken with shot barrel. Shot can also be useful on a follow up of a wounded beast, especially at close range.
Heym SR20
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Going back to the single shot rifle, in my experience when you shoot a deer, they either collapse on the spot, or run fast or stand as if nothing much has happened. In all cases there is more than enough time to reload. In the case of the fast running deer, usually this would be very difficult to take a follow up, usually best to wait for it to stop.
You do however need to practice reloading so that you can do it without looking whilst keeping your eye on the beast.
You do however need to practice reloading so that you can do it without looking whilst keeping your eye on the beast.
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