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Reb87,

Thank you for posting the pics for me. Isn't she beautiful?
The underlever cocks the triggers and then opens the barrels. I do it by holding the butt under my R arm and with my R hand under the gun I grab the vertical part with my thumb and index and puch the underlever down and forward. When the barrels close, the underlever comes back, but I have to depress the little checkered lever that is situated on the vertical piece of the underlever to push the underlever back into the action, thus rendering the triggers ready for firing.

What a cool gun. How much does she weigh? How does it handle? Good luck and thanks for sharing.

Silver, everything is clear. Just imagine you got ordinary sxs gun, but with extra 3-d barrel (UB) and you'll figure out maker's logic.
Nice gun!

front/back/front ??

Does the rear trigger reset the front to fire the UB, much like a set trigger might work on a rifle? Snap caps would tell.

I does not stand to reason or logic that one would have to operate a separate push lever in order to be able to fire the third shot. I would consider that a fault if that were the case. It appears too well executed to have that kind of fault in the design. I'm amazed at its listed weight and pleased you are shooting it.

Let me remind you, folks, how most modern drillings work (sxs smooth and 1 rifled) - 2 shots from smooth barrels and to shoot rifled you need to push lever forward. That's the logic of German maker.
Your logic, tw, is semi-auto logic.

TW,

The rear trigger does not set the front trigger.
I have tried it in any combination possible, back and forth.
It seems that it is a modern tribarreled german gun although made in the 30's, like Geno said. The only puzzle remaining is the choke arrangement.
DGJ of Summer '07 has an article about a Funk flintendrilling with similar trigger/choke combination, but is a toplever and a tang safety. From the article I understood that the RT fires both RB and UB without any other selector operation. The original chokes according to Col. Fred Ball, the owner, were all full. He opened them to RB/IC, UB/Mod, LB/Full in a logical sequence.

Silver, if the choke arrangement keeps bothering you, take it out and pattern it. Sometimes a .030 choke can patten better than another .035 choke. If you keep worrying about the minute difference in constriction, you will never hit anything. Toooo much thinking.

I am always open to learning. I have personally never owned a drilling nor actually used one in the field to bag game. I guess that is obvious. I handled a couple of the four bbl'd .410's that A&S made when they were sold under the Famars name, but I don't recall the exact firing sequence or drill either. I want to say that they did not involve using a lever to shoot bbls. #3 & #4, but I'll Clunk that remark, JIC;-)It was a while back, early 70's, I think.

Still, in a three bbl'd shotgun application my thinking would be for it to operate as Geno said I was thinking, with semi-auto logic;-) Are you saying, Silver, that the Austrians in Ferlach had in essence a semi-auto solution?

With a rifled 3rd or under bbl. on a drilling I can see the use of a lever to specifically select & fire the rifle bbl., no problem. That has been my understanding of their normal function. I simply thought with a three barreled shotgun, the trigger would be designed to get the third shot off sequentially w/o extraneous selector motion being necessary.

So, is it technically a 'drilling' still or is it a 'flintendrilling' or does that distinction even exist based on the trigger function? I do think it a wonderfully constructed and interesting piece. I just don't know much about odd multi bbl'd. configurations making the education both fun and enlightening. Thank you, gentlemen!

Hello TW,

The Quattro Canne's by A&S are single trigger (one of the features that make them so special) so not comparable. They shoot the barrels in sequence from more open to less open chokes. I should think UR, UL, LR, LL. Surely someone will come and clarify the details.


The Famars Rombo is also single trigger.

JC

TW,

I agree with you, for a three smooth barrel gun(flintendrilling) there is no need to operate another lever/button to select a barrel of the same nature as the other two. After all, one shoots the three shots at the same or same type of quarry. That is the reason for my initial question. For a drilling it makes sense to have to operate another lever/button in order to change the "mode" of the weapon according to the quarry.
This makes me think that my flintendrilling is either built on a drilling action, or there might be something wrong with the trigger mechanism. Does anybody have any opinions?

In a different order of ideas, is it possible to change a drilling to a flintendrilling by switching the rifled barrel with a smooth barrel using the same original action?