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Which one is the wild boar?

Jeff

The handsome one on your lower left, looking at the photo!

De pot be callin' de kettle black!!

Hey, I represent that there remark!!!

BTW, where did YOU learn to speak "Ebonics"? Laffin'!

Another good use for a drilling is as a traveling gun if you do both big game and bird shooting. You can just take one gun and be ready for anything. For example last fall I was working in Europe for 3 months during the hunting season and I brought my drilling. So with only one compact break down rifle I went partridge and pheasant shooting over pointing dogs a couple of times, stalking red stag, and a driven hunt for boar and deer. Was it the "ideal gun" for each task? No, but it worked and made traveling much easier.

The sticky wicket with this is ammo availability if you loose your luggage or use up all your ammo. Especially with an odd or old metric caliber when you are traveling in the US. I've been lucky and never had that happen to me. For example a couple of years ago I took my drilling on an early fall hunt in Southeast Alaska for black tail deer and grouse/waterfowl. Had I lost my ammo finding 7x65r or even 16 bore shotgun ammo in Southeast Alaska would have been difficult. But the hunt went fine:

IMO a drilling or combo gun is about the perfect coyote calling rig, shotgun for the inclose hard chargers and the rifle for the ones that hang up out there aways.

I'm shooting a 12ga over 5.6x50R Mag and it has worked well just about everywhere, we've hunted coyotes in MT, WA, UT, AZand NM this year and have only been disapointed once and that was the day I left it in the truck and missed a good dog in the brush because I only had a rifle along.

Just picked up another combo gun in 12ga 3" with choke tubes over 222Rem, its anice little Marrochi and shoots well, I think it will get a few coyotes too.

I have a Heym 16/.222 that is my coyote calling rig. It also was called into service to shoot pheasants when my buddy cracked the stock on his regular shotgun.
I have a Merkel 16/7x57R that I used to shoot this wolf, and took a ruffed grouse the same morning on the walk back to camp.

my Sauer drilling 16x16/8x57IR was a comfort while hunting ptarmigan on top of a BC mountain that was littered with grizzly bear poop.

These are some photos of the game I mentioned having used my Zoli 12g/7x57R.


Buck and ducks

Bear.

Deer and pheasants.

The sound of "bucks and ducks" made me smile. Looks like fun!

Bernedelli 2000 12ga/5.6x50R Mag Leupold 1x4x20mm

Not far from the Canadian border.


10 miles north of the Mexican border.


Why a combo gun, you never know what your going to run into.

Is that the elusive Fox Tanager?

I've been lusting for a drilling for a couple years, but am not financially ready or learned enough to take the plunge. On a compromise, I recently bought a BRNO ZH204 7x57R over 12ga. Hope to shoot a few grouse with it while deer hunting. Rather eat grouse anyways and a lot easier to drag out of the woods.