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Open season for drillings
« on: November 06, 2012, 04:56:56 PM »
Greetings,
In 12 days gun deer season opens in our county in central NY. For the first time we will be able to use rifles. So today I sighted in my Sauer drilling,16/16x7x57r. Scope is a Karl Kaps 4x36 with a post reticule in claw mounts. 160 grain spitzers from Speer and 44.0 grains Hodgon 100V hibred gives a velocity of about 2300 fps. All groups only 2 shots each: First group at 100yds .5 inch. Second group at 167yds 1.6inches. Moved the target to 200yds and adjusted the scope shot a .5inch group. moved the target back to 100yds and shot a .85 group. Another scope adjustment and the last group again .5inch. Think I will load some more just like those.
Waidmannsheil and happy St. Hubert Day to you!(he is the patron saint of hunters)
bauer

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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 05:42:18 PM »
Bauer,
what year was your Sauer drilling made it is an excellent shooter.  My first drilling was the Sauer Model 32 16x16x7x57r. 


Waidmannsheil (good hunting)

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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 05:45:31 PM »
Those drillings are such interesting and effective guns.

One can hunt birds in season and bear at the same time.   

I got a buck in VT years ago with my Sauer 16x16x 8-57JR.



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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 06:25:20 PM »
In Texas the drilling is the one gun that does it all.  You can go bird hunting and if you happen upon a hog your ready with the rifle.  If your hog hunting you have the rifle and can use the shotgun barrels for slug or buck shot.  If you have a 22 WMR insert then you can add coyote, raccoon, opposum.   

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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 03:42:07 AM »
  It's amazing how well a drilling can shoot!  Here's a 16-16 x 30-06,
 

 
  And my 16-16 x 8x57jrs,
 

 
  The last 28 (in a row) big game animals i shot with my Krieghoff Semper were all one shot kills.  Here's some of the last few deer i've taken with it,
 

 

 

 
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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2012, 04:03:42 PM »
Hey Drillingman


Nice shooting!


where those cold bore or warm barrel shots?


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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2012, 05:23:40 PM »
Greetings All
Doug, the J.P. Sauer und Sohn was marked 62, there is not any model number on the gun. I bought it used from Waffen-Bock in Frankfurt during the 1970,s. Because the sales clerks were all  busy, a customer assisted me with the purchase. I explained my limited finances and he suggested this gun as the best for the money. While conversing he mentioned the new gun he was having built. It was to be of top grade and was being delayed because the best quality Holland&Holland sidelocks he had specified were on back order for a year. Life is tough!
Good hunting and excellent shooting Drilling Man!
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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2012, 02:47:05 AM »
  Those targets were first shot from a cold bore and then less than a minute between the following shots.  I didn't time them or let the bbl cool between the shots.
 
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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2012, 02:59:31 PM »
I have never compared the cold bore shot to the warm bore shot out of the drilling.  Your shots are reinforcing my view that high quality barrels tend to walk less than lower quality barrels when heated


very impressive shooting




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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2012, 08:51:34 AM »
Dougk, I've owned and shot a lot of Drillings and combo guns since WW2 and my observation has been that when a barrel is soldered full length to other barrels that effectively dampens any flexing that barrel might otherwise have which leads to very good accuracy.  Some better than others but I've never seen a really bad one. H08

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Re: Open season for drillings
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2012, 09:07:51 AM »
Dougk, I've owned and shot a lot of Drillings and combo guns since WW2 and my observation has been that when a barrel is soldered full length to other barrels that effectively dampens any flexing that barrel might otherwise have which leads to very good accuracy.  Some better than others but I've never seen a really bad one. H08

  That may be so,  but it doesn't explain why Valmet 412 combo guns shoot so well,
 

 
  The bbls are separated considerable on those...  I've seen dozens of them that shot really good, and none of them are soldered.  I'm thinking good bbls/chambers have more to do with it?
 
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