Drillings are one of those gun types that I find I can't do without. I always seem to have one around, get tired of it, then when it is gone decide I have to have another. I recently sold my Fortuna 16-gauge over 7x65R and now I have a Merkel 96 coming in 16-gauge over 9.3x74R. If it is like the other three drillings I have owned, I'll love it for a few years, get tired of it and sell it, then be sorry I don't have a drilling and buy another. See, just like women (only it's cheaper to have a drilling than a woman ).

I've met your wife, and I've seen the 16/9,3 drilling on the way.

I'll take both when you cast them off.

The first drilling I bought was for my wife.
It was a Sauer 3000 in 12x12x30/06, with a kahles 4x scope in claw mounts.

Where she hunted on our deer lease, she could shoot deer, pigs, quail, dove turkeys and ducks, so I bought her the Drilling so she would not have to carry 2 long guns at the same time.

Well we quickly learned how good a Drilling was for a Hunters gun...

I would try to talk her in to letting me hunt with it every chance I got. And when I went on a hunt without her I would always sneak it out... I made the mistake one time, when I snuck it out on an Idaho bear/grouse hunt, I had pictures of it with some grouse I had shot...

Of course I would have got away with it, IF I had not had her take the film to the store to be developed.

However, the good side to this story is, she had never said anything when I bought a Drilling for ME, as now HER Drilling is OFF limits to me...

Except to clean and load ammo for of course...

So My point is, IF I could have only ONE gun to hunt in Texas, for the rest of my life, where I hunt the most, it would be a Drilling.

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
So My point is, IF I could have only ONE gun to hunt in Texas, for the rest of my life, where I hunt the most, it would be a Drilling.

I think one could easily expand that statement to cover the entirety of North America with adequate caliber rifle barrel.

Drillings are like women?

My only drilling was a fine Luftwaffe drilling. I do miss her.

If they are like women is it because:
You will share it with a friend?
You can admire her fine lines and form.
If you have it long enough, you want to shoot it?
However, my drilling didn't care if I fondled other drillings and didn't give me a hard time if I ran out of ammunition. Maybe the drilling is better....?
LOL
Cal

I got a drilling for my ex-wife. Man, that was a good trade.
joe