Any SXS Shooters?

[luv2safari]

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.

I got this old French Robust No. 4 16ga for next to nothing years ago. It looked like everything killed with it was clubbed to death with the gun. It's my favorite quail and grouse gun. It's light and points fast. The thin straight grip does some getting used to for sure.

with sagehen:

with blue grouse:

with quail:

 

[Bazoo]

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

Wow that is awesome! Is that a 22 lr insert? is it a full length insert? Factory I presume. Thanks for sharing, that's cool as heck.

 

[DM~]

Wow that is awesome! Is that a 22 lr insert? is it a full length insert? Factory I presume. Thanks for sharing, that's cool as heck.

I have two of those insert bbls for this drilling, one is in 22 LR the other is chambered 22Win. Mag.., both shoot about the same as a decent bolt action rifle. My inserts were sold by Krieghoff.

They were made in a short about 6 or 7" long and the long is about 13" long, I have some of each.

DM

 

[Bazoo]

I have two of those insert bbls for this drilling, one is in 22 LR the other is chambered 22Win. Mag.., both shoot about the same as a decent bolt action rifle. My inserts were sold by Krieghoff.

They were made in a short about 6 or 7" long and the long is about 13" long, I have some of each.

DM

Wow that is awesome. Thank you for sharing. That's a beautiful firearm.

 

[luv2safari]

I have two of those insert bbls for this drilling, one is in 22 LR the other is chambered 22Win. Mag.., both shoot about the same as a decent bolt action rifle. My inserts were sold by Krieghoff.

They were made in a short about 6 or 7" long and the long is about 13" long, I have some of each.

DM

A drilling set up can't get any better than that! I know. They have been my "thing" all my life.

I wish I owned this, and you had a better set...if that's possible.

 

[Bazoo]

I've never gotten into drillings, but I sure do want to.

I've seen a total of 1 in person. I don't know the maker, but it was a box lock best I recall, and was SxS 16 gauge over 7x57mmR. It had a storage compartment on the underneath side of the stock (opposite the comb) the hold, best I recall, 7 of those spare cartridges. The gun had been used extensively, with no finish left and plenty of dings and dents, but the action was silky smooth and it locked up tight as the day it was made.

Ever since that day, I've always had an eye for them and for the rimmed cartridges they are chambered for. I wish I'd had the sense to talk the guy who owned it out of 1 of the cartridges/cases he had for it for my collection.

 

[luv2safari]

I've never gotten into drillings, but I sure do want to.

I've seen a total of 1 in person. I don't know the maker, but it was a box lock best I recall, and was SxS 16 gauge over 7x57mmR. It had a storage compartment on the underneath side of the stock (opposite the comb) the hold, best I recall, 7 of those spare cartridges. The gun had been used extensively, with no finish left and plenty of dings and dents, but the action was silky smooth and it locked up tight as the day it was made.

Ever since that day, I've always had an eye for them and for the rimmed cartridges they are chambered for. I wish I'd had the sense to talk the guy who owned it out of 1 of the cartridges/cases he had for it for my collection.

Sent you a private message.

 

[cfullgraf]

I would LOVE to see those Daly SXS guns!

Here they are.

The top shotgun is the 16 ga, the lower one the 12 ga. We lived in England for a couple years around 1960 and Dad had Purdey make the customized case for them including a variety of accessories.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Well, I "grew up" on a Janssen & Sons double hammer shell gun, 12 gauge, made in or before 1914. It was my Grandfather's. Was twelve years old first time I shot it, (gave me a bloody nose) and started hunting with it after age 16. At one time I hunted with it a lot, ducks, quail and grouse. I'd not want a side-by-side with a single trigger. I got very used to it, and made quite a few doubles on duck.

I never realized at that time that it was not built for smokeless powder. I loosened it up pretty badly, but rebuilt it and only fire it with black powder now.

These days I don't bird hunt anymore, but sometimes I take that old girl up North to hunt turkey, in a grizzly recovery area. With a .690" ball over 110 grains of black in the left barrel, and #4 shot in the right, I'm set up for turkey or an argument with Grizz. For just hiking and exploring up there, a ball in each barrel makes me feel very warm and fuzzy. It shoots round ball quite well. Anyhow, for me double triggers are a must have.

 

[Pete D.]

Ye olde Parker...

 

[bangswitch]

double triggers give instant choice of chokes!
Bull

Exactly. I've seen several different doubles with a single trigger, but it seems very limiting and even too busy when you're trying to track a moving target. Savage offered the Fox B for several years with a single trigger model, the BSE; it wasn't selectable, it fired the right and then the left. I've seen single trigger doubles with a select button on the tang where the safety is, you flick it with your thumb to select the barrel, but barrel selection can change in a heartbeat.

Plus, double triggers also give the option of both barrels at once, if needed.

 

[luv2safari]

Ye olde Parker...

Parkers have a certain "feel" about them. They point themselves.

 

[luv2safari]

Well, I "grew up" on a Janssen & Sons double hammer shell gun, 12 gauge, made in or before 1914. It was my Grandfather's. Was twelve years old first time I shot it, (gave me a bloody nose) and started hunting with it after age 16. At one time I hunted with it a lot, ducks, quail and grouse. I'd not want a side-by-side with a single trigger. I got very used to it, and made quite a few doubles on duck.

I never realized at that time that it was not built for smokeless powder. I loosened it up pretty badly, but rebuilt it and only fire it with black powder now.

These days I don't bird hunt anymore, but sometimes I take that old girl up North to hunt turkey, in a grizzly recovery area. With a .690" ball over 110 grains of black in the left barrel, and #4 shot in the right, I'm set up for turkey or an argument with Grizz. For just hiking and exploring up there, a ball in each barrel makes me feel very warm and fuzzy. It shoots round ball quite well. Anyhow, for me double triggers are a must have.
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We used to call those "punkin balls". My late dad's old hunting partner was from PA originally. The punkin balls were all he used there as a kid.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Parkers have a certain "feel" about them. They point themselves.

I believe that. My old hammer gun does that, and it seems to cock the hammers by it's self. I'm really not aware of doing that when something jumps up. As much as I like my old double, I'd love to have a Parker, or something like it of high quality.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

We used to call those "punkin balls". My late dad's old hunting partner was from PA originally. The punkin balls were all he used there as a kid.

First time I ever shot one, I was quite surprised at the accuracy. Never shot anything with one, the one time I had a shot at a coyote, I aimed over him thinking: "that big old ball is going to drop a lot". Yep...I shot over him. And he was gone.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

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.

I was gonna start shouting: "NO! Don't sell the Harley"!! But...yeah...it might be a fair sacrifice for a howitzer, or six-pounder...!!! A drilling...maybe not. Don't think I'll ever sell my bike, but I sure could buy a lot of dream guns if I did. Or a howitzer.

 

[WestKentucky]

I was gonna start shouting: "NO! Don't sell the Harley"!! But...yeah...it might be a fair sacrifice for a howitzer, or six-pounder...!!! A drilling...maybe not. Don't think I'll ever sell my bike, but I sure could buy a lot of dream guns if I did. Or a howitzer.
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I haven’t had a bike in about 10 years and I bought a true basket case of a 73 sportster. Only things missing are a seat and a carb. Needs paint when it runs. Realistically I could make a sizable chunk off of the bike as is but I just want to hear it run and take it down the road. 73 is a special year since it’s the last of the right side shift, and a nice bike brings a premium. With 3 kids though, it’s not practical. Also with being a small business owner there’s not much spare time, and my wife has a nonprofit so I’m busy helping her when I’m not working or actively parenting. The money would be better tied up in almost anything other than a bike, but the simple fact that I own it somehow calms me. I think that being able to say I own a legitimate field artillery piece would satisfy me in a similar way.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I think that being able to say I own a legitimate field artillery piece would satisfy me in a similar way.

Yep, doesn't sound like you could find time to shoot it!!! If I had one, I'd shoot on the 4th of July, and bring in the New Year with it. That would be cool.

 

[bangswitch]

I was gonna start shouting: "NO! Don't sell the Harley"!! But...yeah...it might be a fair sacrifice for a howitzer, or six-pounder...!!! A drilling...maybe not. Don't think I'll ever sell my bike, but I sure could buy a lot of dream guns if I did. Or a howitzer.
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You can find nice doubles about anywhere, but a great looking flathead doesn't come along too often. Fantastic bike!

 

[35 Whelen]

As a boy I read an article by Francis E. Sell in which he expressed his love for the SxS 20 ga. and #5 shot for ducks. I've been hooked ever since and a SxS 20 ga. is the shotgun I've used most over the last 50 years. I prefer double triggers, but my current aYa Matador is single selective. 20 years ago my dream gun was a sidelock with double triggers and selective ejectors. I saved my pennies and bought an Urgartechea with a coin finished receiver, splinter forend, concave rib, DT's and SSE's and choked IC/M. It was a head-turner at the gun club. This is the only photo I have of it-

Problem was, I couldn't hit a barn with it, even if I was inside the barn! Fortunately I was able to sell it for a $400 profit.

I also have a little, I mean LITTLE (small frame), Richland Arm's .410 in which I had screw-in chokes installed. It is a joy to shoot, points like a dream, and is absolute death on quail over dogs. I've shot several 23's and 24's on the skeet range with it as well.

My current plan is to get rid of the aYa and find another svelte 20 ga. SxS with DT's. I really like the idea of ejectors, but since I'm a handloader I've found myself catching the hulls as they were ejected, sort negating the need for ejectors.

35W

 

[Ugly Sauce]

You can find nice doubles about anywhere, but a great looking flathead doesn't come along too often. Fantastic bike!

Thank you. Yes, the Flatheads are going the way of the Knuckleheads, $$$$$. They come along but no one can afford them, other than the Japanese.

Trouble with the nice doubles, and I do come across one sometimes, is that my firearms wish list is pretty long, and another double is not near the top. Maybe it should be. !! Just before my hunting partner died, I bought one of his pistols from him, he was selling all his stuff, as a "keepsake", and could have got his Browning double, 12 with double-triggers, it was a really nice one, but I didn't, don't know why I didn't, and have been kicking myself in the butt ever since.

 

[Pete D.]

Nothing points like a SXS

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Nothing points like a SXS

Truth, but some people don't like them. After my hammer gun got too loose, and before I fixed it, I picked up a Remington Model 11 in a card game, and that handled pretty nice for me. I "took to it" and did some good shooting/hunting with it. Pointed good with that square humped receiver. Used it for two or three years. By about that time just due to population growth the bird hunting was declining, the big duck flyway went away, (used to look like swarms of mosquitos, but now nothing) so that was kind of the end of bird hunting for me. I still have it though, haven't shot it in 30 years or so.

I've gone to black powder for all my hunting, so now I just take grouse with a pistol when big game hunting, and hunt turkey with my Brown Bess musket. But sometimes I'll still take the hammer gun up North for Turkey, with a pumpkin ball in one barrel for grizz. And it's a good survival gun for "trekking"/exploring, bushwhacking and map and compass fun up North. That way I don't neglect her. !!!

Pumpkin Balls!

 

[Pete D.]

I went to black powder for upland hunting before my spine went bad. Not a SXS though. I use a flintlock Fowler. Forty two inch barrel and six pounds four. 16 gauge. Points like a wand.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Dang that's nice. And six pounds with that long-tom barrel. Don't get better than that. My Brown Bess "Ranger Carbine" has done well on grouse. Points like a stick though, 33" barrel.