I was hoping that I could get a little guidance. I really know very little about drillings although I've had a couple.
I just had some one offer to sell me two drillings as a package deal. One is a Kriegoff Semper. It appears to be in good mechanical condition with good bores but it appears to have been hunted with quite a bit . The caliber is marked as 16 X 16 X 8.9 X 72 a wild guess would be to say it is about 75 % finish. It does not have scope mounts and it does have a cartridge trap. To me it appears to be on face but the butt stock is a little loose
The second is really interesting to me. It is in 16/16/ the rifle barrel is stamped 8.8 with a 72 under it. It is a under lever hammer gun with the right trigger being a set trigger. The shot gun barrels look good but the rifle barrel has significant pitting in throat with the rest of the rifling some what grey. I can not find a makers name on it anywhere. It is marked nitro on the shot gun barrels. The fore arm has a crack. It too has a cartridge trap. Both guns would be fun to hunt with because you wouldn't have to worry about scratching the finish. Both guns will have to gone over by an experienced gun smith.
What do you think is a reasonable price range for the pair. Second question is What caliber is 8.8 x72 and 8.9x 72
Would it be impossible to make or get ammo. Or maybe I have just read the marks wrong. I can't find any reference to a 8.8 or 8.9 cartridge.
Thanks for the replies.
