Then there are variations of the 4 barrel vierling, but why? If you can physically carry it, and financially endure it, there are shops in the old country that will build you your wonder combo.
Vierling Same as drilling, but with an ADDITIONAL small rifle barrel positioned either above or immediately below the smoothbores. To rattle down a few, and bewilder you with their respective gigantic German designations, take your pick for the coming Christmas season: (sticker shock is definitely guaranteed!!)ĭrilling Side by side shotgun, with rifle barrel centered below the smoothboresīockdrilling Shotgun barrel above large rifle barrel, with small rifle barrel to one side slightly above large rifle barrelĭoppelbüchsdrilling Side by side rifle, with shotgun barrel centered below them Well, in particular the Germans and Austrians have gone totally nuts with respect to combination guns. If you saw the story about my '95 vacation, you read about the drilling, a combination shotgun/rifle hunting tool. But I'm also a big fan of them, so we decided to do this story together. After reading about the T/C Contender and insert barrels in these pages about a year ago, he mentioned to me that he had been thinking about doing a few paragraphs on combo's, primarily since he is a proud combo owner himself. T he seed for this story was actually planted by Dan.