And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I read the details on this gun a long time ago. The two smaller bores are in rifle calibers of 8 something to 9 something mm. It is a shotgun/rifle combo of European design.
This is a vierling, vier is four in German. Drilling is a mispronunciation of dreiling, drei being three in German. The rifle barrels are most likely in 9.3x62mm chambering, 9.3x62mm was the German competitor to the 375HH magnum. Most dreilings and vierlings have a selector lever so the trigger fires the shotgun or rifle, you wouldn't want to hit a bird with a 300gr solid meant for a cape buffalo or hit a charging buffalo with birdshot.
Four barrel drillings are why gun bearers came to be! - lol
ReplyDeleteYes. A heavy beast.
DeleteCW, are the two larger holes 12 gauge and the smaller ones 410?
ReplyDeleteI read the details on this gun a long time ago. The two smaller
ReplyDeletebores are in rifle calibers of 8 something to 9 something mm. It
is a shotgun/rifle combo of European design.
Four triggers?
ReplyDeleteThis is a vierling, vier is four in German. Drilling is a mispronunciation of dreiling, drei being three in German. The rifle barrels are most likely in 9.3x62mm chambering, 9.3x62mm was the German competitor to the 375HH magnum. Most dreilings and vierlings have a selector lever so the trigger fires the shotgun or rifle, you wouldn't want to hit a bird with a 300gr solid meant for a cape buffalo or hit a charging buffalo with birdshot.
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