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I've always considered those most interesting. And it appears that it fires an 8x57 but with a bullet of 10 Grammes? For some reason they passed it thru the Z-M proof facility in Oktober, 1930?
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I agree that this is an interesting drilling. It is unusual for a Suhl made gun to be proofed in Zella-Mehlis. It is obvious that the stock doesn't match the forearm so I wonder if it was sold, unfinished ( no stock) to a stockmaker in or near Z-M. Once he fit up the try-stock, maybe he submitted the finished gun to the proof house. Of course, this is rank speculation, but it is plausible. Since it is proofed for a 10 gram bullet, it would be worthwhile to slug the barrel to see if it has .323" groove diameter. Another point worthy of checking is the safety/barrel selector. On my Kreighoff, the greener side safety doesn't work on the rifle barrel, only the shot barrels. The selector serves as the safety for the rifle as well as selecting it to fire. If this one is the same, the shooter would only have to worry about one button if a deer shows up ( plus the set trigger). Mike
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It looks like the safety still works with the rifle trigger. The set trigger still works also. I emailed Kreighoff and got this response back.
Thank you for the inquiry. This is truly a very interesting gun. Unfortunately all the factory records before 1945 where lost at the end of WW2, so I cannot research the serial number in an archive. Where are you located? We would be interested to examine the gun here in our shop in Ottsville. This is the first time we seen a try stock on a drilling, so we have no comparison to a verified factory example.
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I also think that the stock of this Drilling is particularly interesting. It was Ludwig Krieghoff who coined the phrase: "The barrels shoot, but the stock hits! And this also applies to the Drilling, because it is a shotgun with an additional rifle barrel. A Drilling with a try stock should be really rare!
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Gunwolf:
Where are these additional clues? Was it a 3 scattergun tubeset and also with a typical drilling arrangement?
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Raimey, I said that in general. Originally, the gun type "Drilling" is nothing more than a double-barrelled shotgun So it's just as important as with a shotgun that the stock fits properly. So it seems only logical to use (Krieghoff?) a "try Drilling"!? Cheers, Gunwolf
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Thanks for the clarification Wolfgang. I thought I had seen a >>Drilling Try-Gun<< prior but I could have easily been mistaken.
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Too, is it possible to adjust the >>Drilling Try-Gun<< to your desired dimensions and is it stable or is it a rattle trap & have loose components when you shoot it?
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Raimey rse
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