🪮 Combination gun.

[Emsland]

The FAIR combination gun is heavy but well-balanced. The best thing about a combination gun is that it is excellent when it comes to travelling on a light aircraft. It is so easy to store.

One time I went to a wilderness area and I flew there on a float plane. I took a Brno combination gun with me View attachment 479794

Eben-Ebenau, a well-known German PH in Canada, ordered after years in the Canadian bush a combined rifle in 9,3x74R + 12/76, together with an additional short barrel in .22 lr for the 12/76.

 

[Emsland]

I did actually ask the OP Putting the romance to one side, I also start out with the intention to make a first time "kill" but in the real world it is far different as your timing only need to be a fraction off and the "bird" is chipped and need a second barrel which is not being "greedy" it is called percentage's also the humane part is large factor.
The real world is we load are stalking rifles with more than one round and our shotguns be it a sxs O-U or auto again with more than one round.
Very few darts matches are won with 9 darts and in snooker 147's also we will loose to Germany in a penalty shootout.

I agree with you, but from my own experience I can tell that normally you have enough time to put another cartridge if needed.

 

[Smellydog]

I did actually ask the OP Putting the romance to one side, I also start out with the intention to make a first time "kill" but in the real world it is far different as your timing only need to be a fraction off and the "bird" is chipped and need a second barrel which is not being "greedy" it is called percentage's also the humane part is large factor.
The real world is we load are stalking rifles with more than one round and our shotguns be it a sxs O-U or auto again with more than one round.
Very few darts matches are won with 9 darts and in snooker 147's also we will loose to Germany in a penalty shootout.

I've seen plenty birds missed with the first barrel and then clipped with the second!
Then what o masterful all knowledgeable?

 

[Tim.243]

I agree with you, but from my own experience I can tell that normally you have enough time to put another cartridge if needed.

I accept your experience's, however with it being a combination gun when the OP spoke about "grouse" being a second quarry I will beg to differ the speed of loading a second cartridge in time to pull through a bird on the wing with a second shot is very little.
I am sure people like them which is fine but from what I have pointed out there will/is a longer time lag as deer/birds mover much faster than we can reload.

 

[Rafter]

Send in the dog.

 

[Emsland]

I accept your experience's, however with it being a combination gun when the OP spoke about "grouse" being a second quarry I will beg to differ the speed of loading a second cartridge in time to pull through a bird on the wing with a second shot is very little.
I am sure people like them which is fine but from what I have pointed out there will/is a longer time lag as deer/birds mover much faster than we can reload.

I am 100% with you. For shooting it would be a poor choice. I was more thinking about stalking.

 

[Smellydog]

I accept your experience's, however with it being a combination gun when the OP spoke about "grouse" being a second quarry I will beg to differ the speed of loading a second cartridge in time to pull through a bird on the wing with a second shot is very little.
I am sure people like them which is fine but from what I have pointed out there will/is a longer time lag as deer/birds mover much faster than we can reload.

Once again, typical narrow minded England.

The OP is from Canada.
How they hunt grouse and their few species of is different than a grouse moor.
Some species are simply picked from a tree like a cherry.

The more you spout the more foolish you look.

 

[Rafter]

Once again, typical narrow minded England.

The OP is from Canada.
How they hunt grouse and their few species of is different than a grouse moor.
Some species are simply picked from a tree like a cherry.

The more you spout the more foolish you look.

I don't think he could look more foolish.

I've been wrong in the past though, and Tim is special

 

[RCS Deer Management]

I did actually ask the OP Putting the romance to one side, I also start out with the intention to make a first time "kill" but in the real world it is far different as your timing only need to be a fraction off and the "bird" is chipped and need a second barrel which is not being "greedy" it is called percentage's also the humane part is large factor.
The real world is we load are stalking rifles with more than one round and our shotguns be it a sxs O-U or auto again with more than one round.
Very few darts matches are won with 9 darts and in snooker 147's also we will loose to Germany in a penalty shootout.

If you miss a bird with your first shot in your o/u do you take another shot at it with your second barrel? What happens if you wound it with that second barrel and you don’t have another shot to finish the bird off?