I have been bird hunting with a drilling for the past few years. I have a dural frame Hubertus drilling 20 gauge over 22 savage Hi Power (5.6 x 52R). This gun only weighs 6 lb 9 oz with 25" barrels and carries very well. The small gauge rifle barrel is just the right medicine for small predators that the dogs kick out of the sloughs.
Also have a Sauer dural frame that is 16 gauge over 7 x 65R.

Anyone else hunt small game with their drilling?

Jon,

I hunt cottontails with mine, a Sauer 16/16/6,5X57R, and use the left 16ga barrel for running rabbits and the Kreifhoff 22 mag insert for sitting ones. I also pot forest grouse with the drilling...16ga flying and 22 sitting. I use the solid jacket bullet ammo to prevent too much meat damage.






I also use my 12ga/30-06 later Sauer drilling for chuckar partridge hunting and rabbits; it also has a similar einstecklauf.

I'm happy to have another drilling shooter join us.

My Krieghoff drilling weighs just under 7 pounds, and is my go to gun for just about everything i hunt. I've shot a lot of small game with it, including this turkey with the shotgun bbl.,



Eariler this winter while on my trap line, i shot this fox using the Krieghoff 22lr insert bbl., (i also have a 22 Win. Mag. insert for this drilling)



Over the years i've harvested a LOT of pheasants, ptmarigan, ducks, rabbits and other "meat" for my freezer. It's the perfect gun for all around hunting!

DM

Hare shot with a 5,95 lbs Krieghoff Waldschütz Dural in 16/16/7x57R.

//K9_75

Here's my little 20ga drilling. The 5.6 x 52R is a tack driver and with a GEE of ~190yds, its just sight it and squeeze. I thought it was unusual to find a nice piece of wood on an otherwise less expensive gun.

what is GEE?

GEE--guenstigste einschiess Entfernung-refers to the yardage that a bullet will travel till it returns to "0" with a maximum trajectory rise of 4cm during flight. When a gun is sighted on its GEE according to caliber and load, the bullet will strike within that 4cm for the particular GEE for that caliber/load combination. This small caliber shoots 71 grains and will strike within that 1.6" trajectory variation over the first 190yds.

I shot chukar, turkey and pheasant with my old Fortenbach 16-gauge/9.3x72R hammer gun before I sold it. Thus far, I've shot pheasant and squirrel for small game and deer for large game with my 16-gauge/7x65R. With luck, it will get a turkey in the next few weeks.

Dave

K9_75...

Great Photo! That big dog looks like a real hunter.

Jon,

That's a very nice looking drilling. I wish I owned it, and you had a better one.

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That's a very nice looking drilling. I wish I owned it, and you had a better one.

Remember what Charlton said at the NRA National Convention?? Goes for my drilling too