I have several drillings but Tennessee doesn’t permit small game hunting with a centerfire. So I’d like to find a drilling with a shot out, neglected or oddball rifle caliber. I want to have a rimfire liner put in it. I’d like 16ga for weight, hammerless, without greener safety (I’m a lefty). Anyone have any candidates?

Never understood why you can't hunt with a drilling. I buy a small game license and a fur bearer license for coyote which you can hunt with centerfire. So why shouldn't I be able to hunt small game with a drilling and be equipped for the yote that stands and looks at 80 yds.

I didn’t make the law. Even my 25-20, 32-20 and 22 centerfires like hornet and 218 bee are useless for small game. When I lived in PA I hunted rabbits with the Bee.

Savage 24C, with Williams 5D sights.

Laws are screwy some times.

Most likely why is they wanted to make it harder to shoot big game out of season.

Not that one could shoot and kill big game with a 22RF

I wouldn't know anybody that has done so.

Good luck with your quest

Just to share a couple of considerations.
The rifle barrel on most drillings have relatively small diameters. This limits how much offset you could build in. The Brownells liners are 8mm or at least the drill for the liner is 8mm.
The firing pin has to be relocated or the 22 barrel offset. Relocating firing pin easier said then done and again original barrel diameter comes into play if you offset the barrel.
Suggestion: Get a double barrel shotgun and get an insert barrel for the rimfire. Poor man's cape gun?

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Suggestion: Get a double barrel shotgun and get an insert barrel for the rimfire. Poor man's cape gun?

......................Absolutely!
................................... MacD37

Vintage doubles currently has a couple 16ga cape guns for sale.

I have a Simpson drilling, 12ga, 12ga, 9.3x74R, with a .22 mag insert already in one of the shotgun barrels, if that might be close enough.

Get a Schienendrilling.

Try "Midsouth Guns" in Wagram, NC. They usually maintain quite the collection of drillings.

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Originally posted by Vol717:
I have several drillings but Tennessee doesn’t permit small game hunting with a centerfire. So I’d like to find a drilling with a shot out, neglected or oddball rifle caliber. I want to have a rimfire liner put in it. I’d like 16ga for weight, hammerless, without greener safety (I’m a lefty). Anyone have any candidates?

Have you looked at Simpson's?

https://simpsonltd.com/

My Sauer driller has an 11.65X65 rifle barrel that fits a .410 2 1/2" shell perfectly. With a .22 insert in the shotgun barrel, I can have two shotguns and a rifle, three shotguns, or any combination. The good thing is that I can shoot a deer, bear, or a big hog with the 11.65 barrel, and have two rifled slugs for backup.

Thanks for all the inputs. Many good ideas were shared. I own 4 drillings and all have 22 mag inserts, so I'm set in a conventional way. But I want two shotgun barrels and a rimfire barrel for early and late season small game hunting before and after deer season. I once had a rib drilling with a 22WRF between the barrels, but it was too worn out to function reliably. What I'm hoping to find is a drilling I can convert with a rimfire liner.