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Post by potatojudge on Nov 28, 2021 20:47:28 GMT -5
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Post by jeffh on Nov 28, 2021 21:03:03 GMT -5
Those are fascinating guns - beautiful.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Nov 28, 2021 21:13:59 GMT -5
Very nice,......JRH has my Merkel Combination gun and Double rifle now setting them up for optics. The Drilling I’ve always liked is the double rifle Drilling, preferably with a 20ga. underneath.
Heyms are very nice guns, congrats
Trapr
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Post by Encore64 on Nov 28, 2021 21:16:55 GMT -5
Beautiful, Congratulations!!!
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Post by potatojudge on Nov 28, 2021 21:25:52 GMT -5
Very nice,......JRH has my Merkel Combination gun and Double rifle now setting them up for optics. The Drilling I’ve always liked is the double rifle Drilling, preferably with a 20ga. underneath. Heyms are very nice guns, congrats Trapr Huntington does claw mounts, or he's doing a conversion? If claw mounts, mind if I ask what he charges? I got hooked up with an importer out of German with excellent prices, so expect pics of a vierling and a couple O/U combination guns. I never really put much thought into combination guns, drillings, vierlings, cape guns, etc, or into European optic mounting schemes. I think I'm getting the hang of that world now. |
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Post by ericp on Nov 28, 2021 21:38:49 GMT -5
Way cool! What a great combination of cartridges and beautifully executed.
Eric
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Post by bigbrowndog on Nov 28, 2021 21:53:26 GMT -5
Yes he’s doing claw mounts for my Combination and a red dot mount for the double rifle, I have no idea what he’s gonna charge. The bases were already on the gun so it’s just the scope rings that need to be fit.
Trapr
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Post by potatojudge on Nov 28, 2021 22:52:23 GMT -5
Yes he’s doing claw mounts for my Combination and a red dot mount for the double rifle, I have no idea what he’s gonna charge. The bases were already on the gun so it’s just the scope rings that need to be fit. Trapr NECG charges something like $700-1000 to fit claw mounts to existing bases and mount the scope. It would be great if JRH was less, because a lot of combination guns go relatively cheap for lack of mounts. |
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Post by flyingzebra on Nov 28, 2021 23:20:41 GMT -5
Congratulations on the new gun
My favorite SxS is a Waldlaufer Drilling, an Austrian 16x16 with a 22lr barrel in the top rib
Unless you knew it was there you'd never notice it
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Post by 45MAN on Nov 29, 2021 7:36:24 GMT -5
ABOUT 40, MAYBE MORE, YEARS AGO I WAS HELPING A FRIEND WITH A DECEASED UNCLE's ESTATE, THERE WERE SEVERAL DRILLINGS IN THE ESTATE AND A SKEET, RIBBED MODEL 42 IN 410. I WAS HUNTING WHITEWING DOVE IN MEXICO A LOT BACK IN THOSE DAYS. AS PART OF MY FEE I COULD HAVE TAKEN MAYBE 1 OR MORE OF THE GUNS, I CHOSE THE MODEL 42, AND AT THE TIME I HAD NO INTEREST IN THOSE "GOOFY" 3 BARREL GUNS SO DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO GIVE THEM A CLOSE LOOK. OF COURSE, BACK THEN THERE WAS JUST NOT A LOT OF INTEREST IN COMBINATION GUNS. NOW I WISH I WOULD HAVE TAKEN A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DRILLINGS.
P.S. OVER THE MANY SEASONS I USED THE MODEL 42 IN MEXICO I SHOT PROBABLY AROUND 1,500 BIRDS AND SEVERAL THOUSAND ROUNDS. JUST LOVED THAT GUN FOR DOVE HUNTING. NOWADAYS, FOR TEXAS DOVE HUNTING, I USE A RUGER RED LABEL 28 GAUGE.
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Post by x101airborne on Dec 1, 2021 8:26:48 GMT -5
I passed on a Heym about 25 years ago. Been kicking myself ever since. If my memory serves, it was a 16x16x 8x57Rimmed. Had the scope and mounts. Talk about the one gun to rule the woods!! Certainly no flies on the 7x57 either. Would have made a kick tail predator gun as well. Two loads of #4 buck and a rifle bullet to back it up. Awesome.
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Post by 45MAN on Dec 2, 2021 7:26:36 GMT -5
I passed on a Heym about 25 years ago. Been kicking myself ever since. If my memory serves, it was a 16x16x 8x57Rimmed. Had the scope and mounts. Talk about the one gun to rule the woods!! Certainly no flies on the 7x57 either. Would have made a kick tail predator gun as well. Two loads of #4 buck and a rifle bullet to back it up. Awesome. TREY: WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. |
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Post by potatojudge on Dec 4, 2021 12:45:09 GMT -5
I found a nice case that fits the gun perfectly, and confirmed the gun will still kill. Double lung heart shot. My afternoon foray into the woods with a revolver was hampered by oak leaves that were supposed to be damp and soft but were dry, crunchy, and very loud. I finished the evening in a blind. Load is a factory 173 grain "soft point cut through edge" bullet with a step part way down the ogive. I haven't shot the gun enough to generate much empty brass to reload, and the bullet seems to work as well as anything. I had a specialty pistol set up for longer range shots, but at 120 yards I thought it was a good opportunity to use the drilling. The bullet entered the deer's right, exited the left. Missed the shoulders. Rib fragments likely helped shred the heart and lungs, with all damage staying above the diaphragm.    |
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Post by flyingzebra on Dec 4, 2021 16:11:35 GMT -5
Nothing wrong there at all
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Post by x101airborne on Dec 5, 2021 8:22:04 GMT -5
Oh dang thats great!! Using it for what it was made for!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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