Gentlemen,
To my knowledge once slugs such as Wilhelm Brenneke's 1898 patent variety became the thing to carry along in one's pocket, when out and about in areas frequented by wild boar, the better German gun makers made a point of regulating the left shotgun barrel (rear trigger) to shoot a slug to the same POA (close anyway) as the rifle barrel at 50 meters ... that is with a conventionally configured drilling, rifle barrel mounted below the SXS shot barrels. Remember with the vast majority of conventionally configured drillings, when the selector is switched to activate the rifle barrel the rear sight will flip up and pulling the front trigger will set off the rifle cartridge. Though the right shot barrel is taken out of action in this mode pulling the rear trigger will set off the left barrel turning your drilling, with a slug cartridge in the chamber, into for all practical purposes a double rifle. I have not witnessed nor heard of O/U combinations "bockbuchsflintes", SXS rifle/shotgun combinations "buchsflintes" (some call them "Cape Guns") or any other combinations being set up in this manner. In other words, with these "other" combinations the shot barrel is simply that so don't be expecting a slug to be showing up on your target in close proximity to where the rifle shows up. If it does, IMHO, such would be by coincidence and nothing more. Our friend Axel and perhaps a few of our other more knowledgeable members may have seen or heard differently, let's see.
Regards,
Mark
Last edited by Buchsemann; 03/30/16 05:28 PM.
