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<blockquote data-quote="Christian F." data-source="post: 272170" data-attributes="member: 16766"><p><strong>Luck is with the patient ones!</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hi Brent, Hi all of you giving me your positive feed back. Thanks!!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Indeed, the weapon is quit useful and not only for predators.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">One particular thing with the "Drillings" is that when shooting couple of rounds, one after another, out of the larger caliber barrel is that the point of impact climbs a little (due to "bimetallic effect" of the 3 barrels soldered together).</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This fact is from the hunting perspective not relevant as you should in any case go for an ethical "1 shot 1 kill" and should need to fire another rounds directly afterwards will make the bullet clime only a little (max. 5 cm) which will be o.k. for a second kill shot.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Though one should take this fact into account when "zeroing" the scope and allow about a couple of minutes between the shots.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">At 100 m I shoot with the .22 Hornet and 7x65R groups of less than 0,5 cm which means "hole in hole", making this weapon a very effective one. I have shot many deers at ranges up to 300 m and it worked well. The same goes for the .22 Hornet on varmints.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The 12 gage (12x70) I use when a fox or rabbit appears at distances up to 35 m. </span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">NB:In the former days in Germany and still in some countries (in Germany is forbidden) raw deer was also shot with shot gun or with the shot gun barrel of the "Drilling". Needless to say that the distance must be max. 40 m and the pellet diameter min. 3,5 mm. It works! and the raw deer dies instantly, due to shock effect of the pellets, but the hunter must be very disciplined otherwise the poor animal will be only wounded and suffers needlessly!!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">By the way there are all sorts of "Drilling" variations; with 3 riffled barrels, 2 rifled and 1 shot gun, 2 shot gun and one rifled barrel etc.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The most popular versions comes in the combination 7x65R + .22 Hornet + 12 gage but there are also 9,3x74R or 30-06.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Take care guys and enjoy the good things in life.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Christian</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christian F., post: 272170, member: 16766"] [b]Luck is with the patient ones![/b] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Hi Brent, Hi all of you giving me your positive feed back. Thanks!![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Indeed, the weapon is quit useful and not only for predators.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]One particular thing with the "Drillings" is that when shooting couple of rounds, one after another, out of the larger caliber barrel is that the point of impact climbs a little (due to "bimetallic effect" of the 3 barrels soldered together).[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]This fact is from the hunting perspective not relevant as you should in any case go for an ethical "1 shot 1 kill" and should need to fire another rounds directly afterwards will make the bullet clime only a little (max. 5 cm) which will be o.k. for a second kill shot.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Though one should take this fact into account when "zeroing" the scope and allow about a couple of minutes between the shots.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]At 100 m I shoot with the .22 Hornet and 7x65R groups of less than 0,5 cm which means "hole in hole", making this weapon a very effective one. I have shot many deers at ranges up to 300 m and it worked well. The same goes for the .22 Hornet on varmints.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The 12 gage (12x70) I use when a fox or rabbit appears at distances up to 35 m. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=blue][FONT=Verdana]NB:In the former days in Germany and still in some countries (in Germany is forbidden) raw deer was also shot with shot gun or with the shot gun barrel of the “Drilling”. Needless to say that the distance must be max. 40 m and the pellet diameter min. 3,5 mm. It works! and the raw deer dies instantly, due to shock effect of the pellets, but the hunter must be very disciplined otherwise the poor animal will be only wounded and suffers needlessly!![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]By the way there are all sorts of "Drilling" variations; with 3 riffled barrels, 2 rifled and 1 shot gun, 2 shot gun and one rifled barrel etc.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]The most popular versions comes in the combination 7x65R + .22 Hornet + 12 gage but there are also 9,3x74R or 30-06.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Take care guys and enjoy the good things in life.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Christian[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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