Drilling any users?

Drillings are made for the European style of hunting, where you're out for a mixed bag, small game to large, and hunting according to a management plan. not our usual style. My thoughts. ;)

Grizz
 
Grizz,

i do agree but in the same time i dont know where you hunt but in the Yukon in the fall i can meet moose, caribou or grouse, ducks and geese ...

we used a lot a drilling in France but not due to management but more due to the facts that you can meet a pheasant hare or wild boar or roe deer during the same hunting day and it was more convenient to carry one drilling that one shotgun and a rifle.

but thanks to bring your thoughts and ideas.
 
I have two drillings, and like them a lot. I can hunt forest grouse, rabbits, ducks, and whatever small game with the shotgun barrels and also deer, moose, or elk or bears with the rifle barrel at the same time. I really like the versatility and efficiency of hunting with one gun that can do it all, and our Saskatchewan seasons and regulations do allow that use. Carrying my Sauer drilling on a BC mountaintop ptarmigan hunt, I can tell you it was a comfort to have the 8x57JR barrel loaded when big piles of grizzly bear poop started showing up in the alpine meadows. And another time back home, hunting bear from a tree stand, I shot two beavers with the .22 hornet insert barrel in my Krieghoff drilling. Always lots of bonus grouse while hunting bigger game. The rifle barrels chambered in 8x57R and 7x57R are capable of cleanly taking anything I care to hunt. I also like and use a couple of German BBF ( shotgun over rifle) two barrel combination guns. They are slightly more handy and slimmer when bird shooting is less likely. Drillings are better if more birds are on the menu, since good ones handle like a decent double barrel bird gun.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Drillings are made for the European style of hunting, where you're out for a mixed bag, small game to large, and hunting according to a management plan. not our usual style. My thoughts. ;)

Grizz
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and i may add that drilling and combo has been created in the days where owning more than one gun was not allowed in many place then became mostly a private game warden tool.
the hype let them down because many thinks they are heavy scope mount are expensive ...but still a great tool on my opinion.
 
It would seem to me that the trend is going towards lighter guns, I don't imagine adding an extra barrel (or two) would be overly conducive to that end... But I personally like the idea. Still looking for a decent 20ga over 30-30 for the next time I've got some cash burning a hole in my pocket...
 
I like the idea of carrying something that I could shoot both deer and grouse here in the east wth. Started half hearted seach for a drilling but the end cost was more than I wanted to spend. The savage combo guns never did anything for me but a 30/30 over 20ga was a good combo for what I wanted. A BRNO 204 (7x57R over 12ga) came up for sale on the EE at a good price, so was purchased. 12ga bbl was reamed to IC and brass was found at Wolverine. Normal 7x57 dies will work for the rimmed version. I was set with the perfect combo gun for eastern hunting.

I could see a 9.3 drilling as useful out west.
 
A buddy has one but I don't think he's shot anything but grouse with it. Loves his 338 too much.
 
Must be dam heavy. I like a light rifle to lug around the hills. Sure I miss some grouse but I don't want to scare the big game.
 
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