Any SXS Shooters?
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Fortunately most "dress code" hunts don't involve walking. With some luck you'll have a loader provided to your pass so the only time you even pick up one of your guns is when the drive starts and something might flush...
CoalTrain49
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I was rough shooting. Why? Because that's all there is here. I can break that down into two categories though. Rough shooting planted birds and rough shooting wild birds. A person can walk a long way to get a limit of wild birds out west. A 6.5 lb. gun is a delight.Fortunately most "dress code" hunts don't involve walking. With some luck you'll have a loader provided to your pass so the only time you even pick up one of your guns is when the drive starts and something might flush...
Not sure of the type of hunting/shooting you do.
DM~
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This one was built in 1913,
It's cheating just a little, with that extra bbl. lol,
It's quite fun to shoot...
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It's cheating just a little, with that extra bbl. lol,
It's quite fun to shoot...
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Space Ghost
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Gotta love a double barrel.
They have the same cowboy coolness as do lever guns.
Took me forever to find one with ejectors, but I finally did.
Had it shortened into a coach gun for defensive use.
They have the same cowboy coolness as do lever guns.
Took me forever to find one with ejectors, but I finally did.
Had it shortened into a coach gun for defensive use.
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luv2safari
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I had one for years, shot well with it, fit me well, never had a problem at all...so I sold it.
I'm a drilling guy 110%.This one was built in 1913,
It's cheating just a little, with that extra bbl. lol,
It's quite fun to shoot...
DM
My Nagel & Menz is from 1887. The crest indicates it was made for a duke.
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luv2safari
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This Simson is just a Merkel by another name. It's a 16ga 28" M & F extractor gun.
The top gun:
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luv2safari
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Great house gun, IMO.
Bazoo
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Well, my blood is pumping this morning. I do not own any SxS shotguns, but I surely want one. I appreciate the discussion here and all the pictures being shared. I've shot a couple of SxSs over the years, and I really enjoyed them. They have a different balance, and swing differently, almost effortlessly.
I have a friend that has a Sears marked but Zoli made O/U that has double triggers, that we shot clays some with, which I learned the use of double triggers. I took to them straight away as they are intuitive.
I have a friend that has a Sears marked but Zoli made O/U that has double triggers, that we shot clays some with, which I learned the use of double triggers. I took to them straight away as they are intuitive.
Everything. The hunts that call for double shotguns are invitational and you're expected to wear tweed and sometimes you'll even have hors d'ouvres and champagne served to your pass/post on a silver platter by a waiter wearing tuxedo (for real, no kidding here). On regular upland grouse hunts I wear whatever camo has been on sale at Cabelas, muck boots, a boonie hat and a backpack, walk in swamps 10-12 hours a day, sweat like a pig and carry a lightweight inertia semi auto, usually my Benelli Centro Supersport (6.5-ish lbs, give or take a bit).
DM~
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Do you hunt with them? What big game have you taken with your drillings??
I've taken deer, bear, moose, caribou ect. with this Krieghoff, it was proofed in 1935, plus a pile of smaller game like fox and turkey.
It's my "go to" gun!
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Roverguy
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Double trigger, straight stock and splinter forend. I have several in 12 and 20. That’s all I hunt birds with. Lighter to carry and they just feel right. Love the simplicity and ease of the double trigger.
troy fairweather
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It's Unfortunate with are regs here in New York you can't really hunt with a drilling the way your supposed to, is still would really like to get one to hunt with tho always have my eye on the ones Simpson's has.
WestKentucky
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Well I’m just flat out jealous. I have tried to get a classic combo gun for a few years and they just don’t want to follow me home. Pockets deeper than mine typically get them. Maybe when I sell the Harley I can set aside some funds to aquire a better noise maker, although a noise maker with 2 wheels might should be replaced by a different noise maker with 2 wheels… designed to be pulled by a horse rather than to replace one. Not sure which I have been after the longest, a mountain howitzer or a drilling, but I will own both when I die. Hopefully my wife would be so kind as to shoot my ashes out of the MH over my grandpas field where the confederates camped near the creek.This one was built in 1913,
It's cheating just a little, with that extra bbl. lol,
It's quite fun to shoot...
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luv2safari
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A lot of deer over 64 years hunting with them...an antelope, and black bear plus lots of chukar, blue grouse, quail, some sagehen, and doves.Do you hunt with them? What big game have you taken with your drillings??
I've taken deer, bear, moose, caribou ect. with this Krieghoff, it was proofed in 1935, plus a pile of smaller game like fox and turkey.
It's my "go to" gun!
DM
I'm down to five drillings now but have owned and traded about 200 over many years. That includes BF, BBF and drillings.
My master gunsmith friend cried me out of this Kreighoff Trumpf Primus Dural 16/16/7X57R drilling. He's done so much free work for me over thirty years that he got it right after I got it. I made the mistake of having him check it out. Has a Keppler full length 22 Hornet einstecklauf. I've shot a Lot of coyotes with drillings, also.
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luv2safari
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This is my favorite, a later production Kreighoff Trumpf Dural in 16/16/7X65R with a Zeiss 1.5-6 plex reticle in Kreighoff claw mounts, the single foot rear claw type. I like that it has the safety on top next to the lever and has the rifle cocking/de-cocking slide on top. It's light and nimble, and I use it a bit for upland birds.
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I have my grandfather’s 12 ga and 16 ga Charles Daley side be side shotguns that were passed down to through my Dad. I also have Dad’s 28 gauge side be side that he grew up with. All have two triggers.
I learned to shoot trap and skeet with the 28 gauge and took my first pheasant with the 28 gauge.
I shot competitive skeet in the 1990’s with a Browning Citori and I’ve lost the ability of shooting dual trigger shotguns efficiently.
I learned to shoot trap and skeet with the 28 gauge and took my first pheasant with the 28 gauge.
I shot competitive skeet in the 1990’s with a Browning Citori and I’ve lost the ability of shooting dual trigger shotguns efficiently.
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luv2safari
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One I like to hunt with is a circa 1955 Sauer LUX 16/16/6.5X57R with 6X Hensoldt in claws. A few years ago I took a fat icebox doe and a bunch of bobwhites in the Oklahoma pre-Christmas special doe season.
It works on chukar, too.
It works on chukar, too.
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luv2safari
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This my 1909 Charles Daly drilling in 12ga and 30-30.
Give me day or two.I would LOVE to see those Daly SXS guns!
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luv2safari
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I'll be watching. I love SXS eye candy...coach guns to driven shoot pairs.
CajunBass
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I don't think I've ever owned a double gun that didn't have double triggers. My first was a Sears-Roebuck (Stevens 311) 12 ga. with 30" barrels mod/full. I never had any trouble with the double triggers at all. I've owned a couple of Parkers and at least one L.C. Smith over the years. Same thing. No trouble. Liked the guns just fine. I don't hunt anymore, so they've all moved on.
Shoot, I never knew anybody who shot doubles that didn't have a double trigger I don't believe. Maybe an O/U but not a SXS.
Shoot, I never knew anybody who shot doubles that didn't have a double trigger I don't believe. Maybe an O/U but not a SXS.
Bull Nutria
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double triggers give instant choice of chokes!
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CoalTrain49
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I had a Merkel 47E for awhile with a straight stock. The nicest sxs I ever owned but Inever could warm up to that stock. I guess the Brits love em. Never could figure out why. I'll take one like yours any day.This Simson is just a Merkel by another name. It's a 16ga 28" M & F extractor gun.
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CoalTrain49
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I had a Beretta 426E that had a single trigger. It was fine with mod and full chokes hunting with a dog in E. WA. That was pheasant, chukars and huns. I had DT's on my grouse gun but never used them. Flushes were so fast and close that if I didn't get the bird with the first shot they disappeared into the woods. That was the thick stuff in the Cascades in W. WA.
Once while surveying I was bent over looking in some ferns for a property corner and had a ruffed grouse flush right in my face.
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