Thread: Drillings/combination guns

If you've got the money anything is possible

If you don't want to sell a kidney and your firstborn, then you're probably best off finding a Cape Gun (O/U or SxS) in a large rifle caliber for one barrel and shotgun on the other, then getting a krieghoff einstecklauf insert in a small game caliber that locks into the shotgun barrel. The einstecklauf inserts are incredible accurate and can be regulated to aim with your rifle sights at a set distance. They also lock into the chamber with a little key and have a built in extractor that is controlled by the shotgun barrel extractor/ejector. They're usually in .22, .22WMR but they are around in other cartridges as well.

Probably for your purposes a CZ over/under in 12 gauge/7x57 or 308 is the best bet. They can be had relatively cheaply, especially if you import one, and you won't die inside when it gets scratched or bumped like you would with a Drilling.
Only thing I don't like is that most Drillings and Cape guns aren't all that easy to take apart, and somehow I attract rain on my hunts, so you now have an expensive gun that spends a week soaking wet.... no good in my books.


I've also been trying to sort out DOC's position on this, and when I can find people who can understand the question it's "If you don't have rimfire/shotgun ammo with you at the time, then you're not shooting a shotgun/rimfire". They may try to come after you, but it would be a difficult argument to make that you were hunting with a rimfire/shotgun without any ammo for it.