drilling rifle
ok, pardon my ignorance, but what is a drilling rifle. i alwways see them advertised on gunbroker and the are always expensive as hell.
what are they and what is so special about them?
what are they and what is so special about them?
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Can you help me identify and value a drilling rifle I own.
It is made by JP Sauer & Sohn, Suhl. 16 gauge shotgun with what appears to be 9mm rifle (appears to be 9.3x72).
Serial # on stock/receiver and barrel is 125309. There is a magazine located in the stock that holds 4 rounds.
Numerous stampings underneath the barrells (I'll try to upload some pictures). Barrells are 26" long. The gun has exposed hammers and a selecter lever for the rifle.
Please let me know what additional information you'll need from me. I'll post pictures tomorrow.0 -
A drilling is not exactly a rifle. The term "drilling" is German for "three", and most drillings have two 16 gauge shotgun barrels sitting above one centered rifle barrel that is most often chambered for one of the common 8mm or 9mm European cartridges (though a few are found in 7mm). There were a scant few American made drillings (Hollenbeck), and most of those were made with either 12 or 16 gauge barrels, with a rifled barrel in either 32-40 or 38-55. Many of the European drillings are fabulous works of art (highly engraved), but they have never had much of a collector interest in the U.S.
Bert H.
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A drilling is a three barrel combination gun which could have three rifle barrels, three shotgun barrels or any other combination. The most common drillings have two shotgun barrels over a single rifle barrel and these guns are very popular in Europe but not much favored here since American shooters generally prefer to own several individual firearms for specific types of shooting while Europeans prefer the one gun which can do it all idea.
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THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO GUYS . . . HAS BEEN A QUESTION THA HAS BOTHERED ME FOR A WHILE. NOW I CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT 0 -
Don't forget Vierlings; the 4-barreled cousin!
"Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit" --OVID0 -
really, i thaught 4 barreled guns were the stuff of Sci-fi and video games.
how wold you aim a four barreld gun affectively?0 -
And then there is the pepper box with 5 or 6 barrels. 0 -
Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier; 1, 2, 3, 4; one barrel gun, then "zwilling", "drilling", "vierling" for 2, 3, 4 barrels... And then it gets very complicated when there are various combinations of rifled barrels and smoothbores! 0 -
hey Pa, i am from the great commonwealth as well(warminster to be exact)
could you elaborate on your statement. what are the comon combinations of barrels on a driling, vierling etc.0 -
"Drilling" in German means triplet. In German-language firearms jargon drilling refers specifically to a [cartridge] break-open mechanism having side-by-side shotgun barrels above a centrally located rifled barrel.
When three barrels are configured differently from what I describe, the specific name changes. There are over/under shotguns with rifle barrel on one side, rifle barrel over side-by-side shotgun barrels, paired rifle barrels with a single shotgun barrels, and on and on.
Among the universe of three-barrelled cartridge break-open guns, I suspect drillings account for 95 percent of the total, probably because they're the most practical of the group.
Hope this helps.
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what kind of accuracy can one expect from a drilling rifle? you mentioned that some of them have two rifle barrels with a shotgun barrel centered over them; how would you aim the two barrels and get any kind of acuracy (if the scope/site is set for one barrel then the other will be a bit off correct?) 0 -
Double rifles (with or without a shotgun tube) are regulated to put both bullets, of a specific loading, into the same spot at a given distance (say 75yds). Closer than that and the right barrel will shoot further right than the left, past that the right barrel will shoot to the left of the left barrel. It's the man hours of skilled labor getting them to print to the same place that drives up the cost.
WW2 fighters used the same methiod, with all guns converging at say 500yd (or what ever distance the pilot prefered)
Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.0
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