Wow... you find something new every day, if you look around enough.

[wolfwings]

An interesting firearm for those that care.

Specifically, it's a combination 'coach gun' style shotgun, with an underbarrel rifle barrel as well. One trigger fires the rifle, another trigger fires first one, then the other shotgun on successive pulls, as I understand it.

Apparently other formats exist as well, including double-double variants with two rifle barrels AND two shotgun barrels in a diamond configuration around a centerline, or even three-gauge variants with three seperate types of barrels in myriad configurations.

Now... for some reason this gun configuration just seems surprisingly nice. Mount a pair of 12-gauge barrels over a 30-06, and you have a nice and fairly all-purpose firearm.

Bet those cost a pretty penny, but wow... that is just about everything I've ever liked or wanted in a long-barrel firearm in one place. And admitedly, I'd love to see the look on someone's face when I went to a range and pulled out what looked like a double-barrel breach-loading shotgun with a scope on top.

Comments

[brianblackberry.livejournal.com]

Interesting enough for reference storage for a possible future pic :)

Over/Under..

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Over/Under shotguns aren't terribly new or uncommon for the midwest. We've had them, in families, for years here. Usually it's in the .410 line, with a .22 underneath. A useful combonation for squirel hunting, or bird hunting if you're a decent shot.

Re: Over/Under..

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Not quite, Sir.

It's a side-by-side double-barrel shotgun, with an underbarrel rifle as a third or even fourth barrel. They're commonly called Drillers, apparently. So yes, the back trigger fires the shotgun barrels in a semi-automatic fashion, and the front trigger fires the rifle barrel(s in a semi-automatic fashion).

Over-under split-sized guns are quite easy to find even at WalMart on occasion even out here on the west coast. But a triple or quad-barrel shotgun/rifle combination that has up to two shots of each? That's something you don't find often anywhere.

Re: Over/Under..

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

Drillers are great. You can shoot a duck on the wing or drop a wild boar you accidentally flush out of the bush in front of you.

They're typically European sporting guns, and cost somewhere between $$$$ and $$$$$.

However, there are a couple of good US-made drillers. My fav has a pair of 12 and a .30-06.

(The low-end ones, the US survival guns and the .22/.410 drillers, are pretty much cheap stuff. Ok for what they are, but you don't chop down trees with a hatchet.)

BTW, Wal-Mart can't sell guns in CA anymore. They "voluntarily" suspended sales just before DOJ was going to shut them down for license violations.

Ah, hadn't heard about Wal-Mart.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

And yes, I agree, 12/12/.30-06 seems like a near-ideal all-range long firearm, sans the limited ammunition count. Though the last complaint is fairly moot considering todays ammo-limit laws.

Ideal 'long' firearm for my preferences would be based on that driller combination in any case, with a medium-low power scope attached to the top in a mounting with a long tapered front and smoothly slanted back edge to retain a 'snag-free' profile for the firearm.