hunting with drillings

[the keepa]

To me the Boch Drilling is more a work of art than a tool for slapping meat on the table .
My ordinary 280 Remington does an excellent job doing just that without me worrying about it getting more dings and scrapes .
Unlike an ordinary or even an extra ordinary rifle a Ferlach Drilling does not depreciate much if at all .

 

[the keepa]

Here is what mine looks like

Well that didn't work out.
Anyway if interested use the net to search for "boch Drilling Ferlach" to see what closely resembles by rifle.
I can't download the pictures that I previously posted on GN ....a few months ago .

 

[Camper]

I want one!

 

[lickilovac]

i have sauer 16 gauge,rifle barell is 303 british,very accurate rifle

 

[trevj]

There are about as many combinations of barrels on drillings, as one can imagine.

Then there are the vierlings, the four barrelled combination guns.

I have seen pictures of combo guns that had up to 7 barrels on them. Delicate like a crowbar to carry in the woods.

Quite suitable guns for the style of hunting one might do in some of the more populated parts of Europe, where it would as like as not, be a game drive or other similar operation involving opportunities at a wide variety of game or vermin in a very short period of time.

To me, a drilling that offered a .22, a decent mild centerfire rifle round, and a shotgun shell to choose from, would make a lot of sense for a one gun solution for much North American hunting. We are spoiled for choices and opportunities here, so they have not really become more than a novelty item.
I know a few fellows that have drillings that they or their fathers bought in Germany while there on tour. One used his moose hunting last year.

Cheers
Trev

 

[jiminthecorner]

I hunted with mine for years,16x16x8x57R ,Swaovski scope, The indian guides in James bay were in love with it!! Goose,moose andcaribou Jim

 

[SuperCub]

Every province in Canada makes its own game laws. Why do people persist in asking such broad questions? If you are in Ontario please look up Ontario rules.

rite!

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[lickilovac]

is it ok to carry drilling in ontario while u go gfor rabitt hunt as longest rifle barell is empty?

 

[MDE]

Wow, you learn something new everyday. Sure are some crazy/cool firearms out there.

I have to say it sounds kind of heavy, the three barrels, but I guess you save weight by just having a break action...

 

[ben hunchak]

Hard to believe but German Pilots(some) were equiped with Drillings during WW2 in case they were forced down somewhere and needed it for survival. I think I read they were Sauers or Krieghoffs, imagine that!!

 

[SuperCub]

i have sauer 16 gauge,rifle barell is 303 british,very accurate rifle

Like to see pics on that one.


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[MDE]

Hard to believe but German Pilots(some) were equiped with Drillings during WW2 in case they were forced down somewhere and needed it for survival. I think I read they were Sauers or Krieghoffs, imagine that!!

I see your German pilots and raise you Russian Cosmonauts. Until 2006 they carried a pistol drilling, apparently in 40x40x5.45x39. Bonus points for a detachable buttstock that doubled as a machete.

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