My drilling is dead. Long live my NEW DRILLING!

[Klenchblaize]

Glad you found and secured what you wanted.

As I'm the helpful kind of RCO I'll allow you to load singularly at next year's BSRC Goat Shoot if you find one barrel shoots to point of aim more consistently than the other at 200 yards!

K

 

[Klenchblaize]

Ps: Am I forgiven for my mistake/assumption in terms of drilling configuration?

A picture showing typical combination gun (top), drilling (middle, common drilling upper left), and vierling (bottom) barrel layouts

 

[Pine Marten]

Ps: Am I forgiven for my mistake/assumption in terms of drilling configuration?

A picture showing typical combination gun (top), drilling (middle, common drilling upper left), and vierling (bottom) barrel layouts

Nothing to forgive, although maybe you were thinking of a Doppelbuchsdrilling, or express drilling, or double rifle drilling. Mine's like this though.

 

[Swedish]

As far as I understand the terms simply stem from the German for 3 (Drei) and 4( Vier). Bur the same numbering system doesn't seem to have been adopted for 2 barrelled combination guns.

Lovely gun by the way!

 

[Pine Marten]

Did they ship the einstecklauf with it?

No, I didn't want it, same as the massive scope. I secured a marginal discount as a result. Amply compensated by the cost of the mounts... But they make the drilling really heavy, and also modify the point of impact of the rifle barrel. I never have a situation where I need a .22 round in the middle of something else. I mean I can take out a squirrel with the shotgun, and make a mess of a fox with a 7x65R.

 

[Dalua]

As far as I understand the terms simply stem from the German for 3 (Drei) and 4( Vier). Bur the same numbering system doesn't seem to have been adopted for 2 barrelled combination guns.

Lovely gun by the way!

It is a lovely bit of kit!

You're right - Drilling and Vierling are triplet and quadruplet respectively. Zwilling is twin - but as you say, they don't use that: Doppelwhatever (double) is used for guns/rifles that have two barrels of the same kind/chambering - with Bock... or Quer.... denoting o/u or s/s respectively. A double-rifle with a large and a small chambering is a Bergstuetzen.

Klenchblaize's diagrams omit one of the more-elegant variants - the Waldlaeuferdrilling, which at first glance looks like a s/s shotgun, but has a .22LR or WMR barrel in the top-rib. In the one I've seen, like other Drillings, pushing the selector to 'rifle' raises a rear-sight in the rib.

 

[CarlW]

What a beautiful thing! But...is that a bulge I can see in the left barrel...?

Very glad you persisted. It is a work of art.

Kind regards,

Carl

 

[alberta boy]

Very nice , and glad to see you got what you wanted .

AB

 

[alberta boy]

It is a lovely bit of kit!

You're right - Drilling and Vierling are triplet and quadruplet respectively. Zwilling is twin - but as you say, they don't use that: Doppelwhatever (double) is used for guns/rifles that have two barrels of the same kind/chambering - with Bock... or Quer.... denoting o/u or s/s respectively. A double-rifle with a large and a small chambering is a Bergstuetzen.

Klenchblaize's diagrams omit one of the more-elegant variants - the Waldlaeuferdrilling, which at first glance looks like a s/s shotgun, but has a .22LR or WMR barrel in the top-rib. In the one I've seen, like other Drillings, pushing the selector to 'rifle' raises a rear-sight in the rib.

I've also seen exactly one Wauldlaeuferdrilling , it was a work of art .......... and it was worth more than my truck ............and my truck was not cheap .

AB

 

[Pine Marten]

But...is that a bulge I can see in the left barrel...?

How rude am I allowed to be in my response to that?

 

[Pine Marten]

In the one I've seen, like other Drillings, pushing the selector to 'rifle' raises a rear-sight in the rib.

Yes, mine does that when you push the rifle cocking button forward. And you can still see the open sights through gaps under the claw mounts, which is a nice touch. I can't say I can see a situation where that would be of any use, but still, nice detail.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

PM - when closing the gun after removing rounds my procedure is :-
1. put safety up to fire position.
2. push top bbl selector to forward position, then while half closing bbl"s pull both triggers together = clicks will be heard (see 2x indicator pins go down)
3. now put the top bbl selector to it"s rear position to fire the shotgun tubes, and close the bbl"s fully "while keeping both triggers pulled" and you should hear another quiet click as the final 3rd hammer spring is relieved, now all three pin indicators should be down flush to the action.
I do this now without thinking - it comes as a real second nature to me when unloading, but it was a hard method to learn at first.
A fun gun to play with and to be amazed at the quality that they were built up to.
I bought a 6.5x57R drilling later to take back to the USA with me on my Tesla project but the job was cancelled at the last minute after I had bought it, it sits very lonely in my cabinet, never have fired it since buying as I also have a Heym combination o/u in the same calibre that I use in summer it is lighter on the shoulder than my winter 7x57R drilling.
Muir - you can never have enough nice guns eh?
BB

 

[alberta boy]

How rude am I allowed to be in my response to that?

I'd say really rude Ha !

AB

 

[CarlW]

I'd say really rude Ha !

AB

Yep. Fair enough! I withdraw my comment and apologise with bells on: je suis desole, mon ami.

 

[The deer man]

Having followed your last drilling story seems you've landed on your feet with this one, very nice and best of luck with it. You still using your 7mm-08?

 

[Pine Marten]

Having followed your last drilling story seems you've landed on your feet with this one, very nice and best of luck with it. You still using your 7mm-08?

Thanks! Yes, it's been back in action both on the range and in the field: It's not just about accuracy (warning: contains real-life human failings)

 

[Nkawu]

Was it difficult to get the drilling from Germany to the Uk?

 

[Jagare]

Nice drilling you've bought PM. I love drillings and combi's In Sweden drillings aren't popular any more and my local gun shop recently had a sale to thin out their stock of drilling. Frankonia sent me their latest catalog recently and i don't think there was a single drilling in it.
Perhaps drilling will be the weapon for the more discerning hunter.

 

[Pine Marten]

Was it difficult to get the drilling from Germany to the Uk?

No, not really. The German RFD had to apply for an export licence (Exportgenehmigung) and I asked them to send it to a UK gunshop, so they just provided their licence. Then it took a week to arrive. The UK shop signed it onto my licence. Done. Now how that will work after March, I don't think anyone knows....

 

[Pine Marten]

Nice drilling you've bought PM. I love drillings and combi's In Sweden drillings aren't popular any more and my local gun shop recently had a sale to thin out their stock of drilling. Frankonia sent me their latest catalog recently and i don't think there was a single drilling in it.
Perhaps drilling will be the weapon for the more discerning hunter.

I saw another listing for a similar drilling on eGun where the seller stated they had 10 of them as new from a gun shop closure. It looks like a lot of these have been sitting in gunsafes since the GDR vanished, and now that the owners are retiring, they're back on the market. It may be a good time to buy! I mean they're not cheap, but I expected to buy a good, used drilling. What I've ended up with is a new one!