Landships II

Pody · Lieutenant

German Multi-Purpose-Projectiles

Vilkata · Brigadier

Very interesting stuff! And in reference to your hobby of Boar hunting...

My brother is quite the avid boar hunter.

He has used the heaviest slug loads available through his pump Shotgun.

He has also used his un-scoped .30-06. In the sorts of terrain around here, very hilly areas, you're rarely going to encounter a pig at distances exceeding iron-sight range.

These days he uses his new .35 Remington lever-action. With some reservations, he seems fairly happy with it. A lot of pig hunters hunt in the lowlands, using scopes to strike from afar. But in the land around here, it's so hilly, even mountainous, that a scope is almost silly. I was thinking of accompanying him on a hunt with my long WWI type 8mm Mauser rifle, but personally, pork isn't my favorite meat. Some pork dishes can be amazing, but generally it's not my favorite meat. It's still an option though.

Pody, what sort of firearm do you use to hunt boar with? You named the caliber, but not the rifle. Iron sights? Scope? Old war gun, new gun?

---Vil.

Pody · Lieutenant

Hello Vilkata!

In fact, my favorite hunting gun is my Drilling-Gun made by Sauer&Sohn at Suhl
in 1913, Oct. It's a triple-barrel break-open action with genuine side-locks in the
famous Holland&Holland fashion of 1900 with double sears and double V-springs
and a separate side-lever-operated lock for the rifle-barrel in the caliber 9,3x72R,
a cartridge constructed in 1875 by Collath of Frankfurt/Oder. The design is two
12/65 shotgun-barrels side-by-side over a centrally mounted rifle-barrel. Churchill-
rib between the shotgun-barrels of 27"-length, a marvelous swinging bundle of
barrels when used on upland game. Mounted is a detachable Zeiss-Diavari 2,5-10x52 with a Suhl Claw-Mount handmade by me with engraving. Gun has 3 ejectors for both
the twin shotgun-barrels as well as the rifle barrel. No set-trigger!!!!!!!!!! the rifle-
barrel is fired with the REAR-trigger!!!!!! which is unique: I never came across such
a constellation within the last 40 years.
Precision is 5 round rifle at 100m in about 2" diam. which is fair more than enough.
The barrel-bundle has to be "tightened" now as the "stitch" has loosened with the
centuries of prolonged use. The locking-wedge has to be made new and the
engaging-lug too. - No swaet for a gunmaker! .but, alas, the oil-finished stock is
dwindling away and the Drilling has to be re-stocked. I have a stock-maker on hand
capable of doing the job but no reference for top-of-the-notch turkish walnut blanks
at affordable rates - could you lend me a helping hand?

Any hint on said problem will be appreciated very much!!!!!!!!!!!

I will never sell this gun as the results on game are singular:
after getting the bullet game remains on spot of hit and start to "tremble" for a few
seconds. Then, they fall off their feet into my direction, deceased. Full stop.
With modern calibers they run away until all blood is spent, sometimes up to 100m.
Thus, I need no dog!!!

With best regards,

Pody

Vilkata · Brigadier

That is one very, very, fascinating gun.

I have heard a lot about multi-barrel guns like yours, but nothing as incredible as yours.

I have a friend who just finished traning to be a Gunsmith - I will tell him about your gun, and see if he can help you out.

Thanks for sharing!! What an amazing firearm, I have never heard of anything like that.

---Vil.