What a beauty. The sound of the snap when you close the action speaks volumes about the quality of that gun. Work hours to craft that gun must have been astronomical.

Today in Germany 9,3x72R is only allowed to be used on roe - Rehwild. 9,3x72R is called "Försterpatrone" = Foersterpatrone (ö=oe) = forester cartridge. From the beginning of the last century a lot of hunters, especially using Drillings, shot roe and deer and wild boar with the 9,3x72R. BUT usually in the forest! And until today this caliber is one of the best forest calibers!

Truly an amazing firearm. Craftsmanship is lost in modern manufacturing.

I went to Kettner in Hamburg Germany in 1984, fantastic shop and fitting professionals.

I enjoy the way you explain things. Wonderful overview of a beautiful firearm.

I agree that is an Amazing Firearm. Thank you for sharing . Amazing Craftsmanship ..

man you are a serious gun collector your collection is exquisite indeed you are a good Steward of these artifacts wonderful channel new subscriber I am amazed! what can as great channel ! very generous of you to share these with us all @youtube University God bless you sir!

Thanks for another great video! Always teaching/showing me something interesting.

My late uncle had a really nice Drilling in his collection. It was made in 1914 and is profusely engraved. It has external hammers. There are no import marks since it was a GI bring back from WWII. It has double 16-gauge barrels and is chambered in 9,3x72, which was once thought to be a great Red Stag caliber. Someday I will buy it from my cousin, who currently has possession of it. There is no case for this gun, but it certainly belongs on one. Thank you for showing this fine piece!!!

Beautiful ,versatile ,brilliant and superb quality hand made engineering, l love it thanks for showing us

These are really great - and useful - hunting firearms. Here in Denmark they are relatively common. They are especially good, if you aren't hunting for one specific animal. I know a lot people who use them while hunting on their own property - for rough shooting basically . A nice looking used boxlock drilling from the common Suhl (Sauer, Merkel, Simson, Krieghoff etc.) manufactures can be had for about $2k (+/-) here. Might just have to buy one myself! And great video as always!

Very, very cool rifle. Thanks as always for a great video on another gem of a firearm.

Agree, beautiful piece of art, if i can get one for sale , will buy it anytime

These guns are so versatile and elegant.

Deeper down the rabbit hole is so right

I have fallen in love with your videos. Thank you for taking your time to make them.

Beautiful Drilling! I personally own a Krieghoff Neptun Primus with hand detachable side locks. I absolutely love it and it's my go to rifle for hunting in Fall, when roe deer, boar, rabbits and pheasants are all open. The rifle I use for the remainder of the year is usually a Mauser 98, Argentino 1909 DWM action in the classic 7x57 Mauser caliber.

12 gauge and 30-06 drilling is my dream gun. I wonder if anyone still makes a drilling in that configuration today

What a beautiful Drilling, I have one Sauer & Sohn in 16x16/30-06 and is also a great gun, not as old as your’s , thanks for your great channel! Very good video!

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Wonderful video, as always. I have a similar model. 16g x 9.3, open hammers and trigger guard lever, 1906. The serial number was found on a specialty site as Jp Sauer no longer has records that old. An email from them explained the events surrounding their destruction. These arms have a balance and placement that can only be appreciated through holding them and using them. Wonderful all around gun, maybe the most useful?

My German friend passed away and left me a few old rifles in the mix was an old Sauer & sohn 7X57R X 16 GA X 16 GA. Drilling ..She's a bute, love the engraving the beautifl stock and the engraving ...It's a real treasure,,I didn't even know he had it ....

Very nice, mine is a much later Dural receiver. They are a quite wonderful niche in firearms. Simply as a shotgun it is a delight. As a stalking rifle with a plus, serendipity.

Thanks. Great information.

Very nice. I'm sure you have measured the shot barrels' chamber lengths. They are often 65mm or less and intended for low pressure ammunition, thus explaining the relatively thin steel one frequently sees at the breech. The fluid steel is often a molybdenum alloy but lacking the tensile strength of modern ordinance steel, so caution is justified even when older guns show nitro proof marks. Today's smokeless powders are often quite different from old ones.

A masterpiece no doubt

Beautiful, truly beautiful.

I have a combination gun, Brno 12g/222 O/U awesome combo for fox's and Roe deer

Thank You Sir.

Beautiful!

Beautiful gun. They appeal to me, I don't have one yet though. I did see one at a LGS, quite nice. I have read that these guns with different combined barrels were partially a result of laws in various European countries restricting the number of firearms a person could own.

This example of what drillings are is clearly a masterpiece. German firearms and craftsmanship, especially pre-war, is always well engineered and meticulously constructed. I've seen a number of these at gun shows over the years and almost all were GI post-war trophies... Many of them sell for well under their real values because drillings are not popular among typical American hunters. The only shotgun/rifle combo I've ever seen that's sold well in past times here in the US was the old Stevens O/U which came in numerous chamberings. I fixed one of these for a friend a few years ago and it was a 22/410. It was a family gun that had served as the farm's go-to varmint and rabbit gun. I wonder what the reasoning is behind the German law that was mentioned before my post, seems a shame that the government punishes the family after someone's death. Great video with plenty of useful information, as always! One day you should simply open your safes and spend an hour or so reviewing your current collection. I'd love to see that video!

My father said when they were coming home after ww2 was over that if an officer caught you with something like this drilling they would take it and say it was contraband and you could be charged and have to spend 30 more days in the army , , it scared some of the men so bad they threw they’re guns and other souvenirs overboard , both my father and uncle did come home with K- 98s , he said the officers just wanted the fancy stuff like the drilling’s and Lugers, I still have his K-98 , its all matching 1940/147 .

Thankyou for such a great video on a high end side lock Sauer Drilling, I've not seen that model in my edition of the Der Drilling by Norbert Klups. I'm not sure if people actually use drillings hunting as there are only a handful of You tube, so I made an effort to post plenty when I got mine. Sauer make a great value for money drilling for sure.

Amazing craftsmanship! What is your opinion on gain twist rifling?

Very nice drilling Mike!

Amazing rifle. Had no idea anything like that existed. Beautiful. :-)

wow the m30 drilling the last box locked faster than other times

First off we must ref to these in the correct pronounciation , Dri llings , from german dri (three) . Four barrelversions are veir lings. A few overlooked important festures are a "see thru tunnel under the scope toallow iron sight viewing with the scope attached, a set "hair" trigger engaged by pushing the rifle triggerforward into the click or "set" position. The scopes are almost universally adjusted for windage by the forward mount screw, elevation adjustment by the top turret knob. Rifle Accuracy is amazing accomlished bythe design of three barrels being connected together in a triangulation thus providing a very stiff and vibrationfree rifle barrel. Weight is reduced by employing Krupp fluid nickel steel allowing for thin shot barrels and a thin rifle barrel in a triangulation design. Shot chokes are achived by hammer peening the last section of the barrel toachieve not only desired pattern spread but point of aim of pattern. It is not uncommon to find the right shotbarrel choke to throw a brenneke slug perfectly at 40 yds. A dri lling is not a firearm for a novice hunter, complexityof safety and barrel selection can lead to mistakes , but in the hands of a skilled hunter it reigns supremein versitle performance.

What a thing of beauty. I would imagine it's a good thing it'll do it all, because it would probably cost so much that you'd have no money left. Clearly it was well taken care of, given the work put into making a new case like that. Have you done a video on how you find all this stuff? The only thing I know is to go to local gun shows, or look at web sites, but the competition would drive prices too high for me (not that I could afford something like this). I was thinking of checking out estate sales. Being up in Canada, guns were extremely common back in the day, but now not so much, so I would imagine I could get lucky.

great firearm, Sauer M30 drilling (2 12 gauge + 1 9.3 x 74mm) was used by Luftwaffe like survival shotgun

To date many German shotguns,take the barrels off,turn barrels around and to the right off the lugs there will be one or two rows of numbers.The bottom row ( there may only be one row),will have three numbers, say 437,which means April 1937,date of manufacture.As I say,on some guns.

Really enjoy your content..and filming style.....you seem to have a lot of literature can you do an episode on that subject..😊🇬🇧

I love your videos Sir!!!!!

On Egun there is many ,many drillings for a good price. There is relative new gun laws in Germany, family members of hunters that passes can not inherit weapons any longer they must sell them . Cheapest drilling i have seen there have been 100 Euro plus transport,tax, fees etc. But it is still veeeery low price for the fine weapon.

9,3x72R is also called the "Försterpatrone". They are not allowed anymore in Germany for most types of game. because it has less than 2000Joule at a 100m.

Audio is VERY low !! WATCH OUT FOR THE LOUD ADDS

You may be able to tell the date of manufacture from looking at the proof marks. These things will have a bunch of different proof marks, but one may have a 3 or 4 digit number; that's the date the firearm was proofed (usually, but not always, the same year it was manufactured). The first 1 or 2 digits is the month, the last 2 digits is the year. For example, 625 would be June 1925, and 1137 would be November 1937.

Beautiful and that’s it

I often thought that drillings could potentially be (mildly) popular here in the US if chambered in the right cartridges. For example, double .410s over .22 Hornet, .22 Mag, or .223. Of course, they would have to be more utilitarian in build quality, like the Ruger No. 1s.

Beautiful

Very nice gun...

nice drilling. I own a Heinrich Barrella with a match Zeiss scope. my prize gun.

I have an old sauer shotgun and on mine it is a 3 diget code that tell how old it is, first number is month and last to is the year, dont know if that is the case on that old of a gun, anyways, great video!!

I am interested in getting some drillings rifles produced for a reasonable price but I want to know more about their internals and there's not a lot of information on that you do a video on taking apart a drilling's rifle please like this video so it might get more attention so I can get the point conveyed

They are actually called a dreileng. Drei is German for 3. English speaking N.Americans mispronounced it when they encountered it and it is always misspelled here since.

9,3x72r is an old blackpowder round right? oftne chambered in old husqvarnas and with modern powders they can't really be loaded enough to meet the legal demands for moose and big game in Sweden

Amazing!

Your Guns are totally magnificent, I I trully enjoy seeing them, do you fire them ? Or strictelly collect them ?

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any experience with Vierling and/or Fünfling combination guns?

As a german gunsmith i work with these daily. and i can only say that the price is falling for those drillings. and if not, than you bought a drilling from a gunsmith with a big name.

I have a o/u combination gun and like it alot, but a dreamgun to fill the same niche would be a british SbS cape gun, do you have one of those?

I have this gun.

Were the scopes zeroed at the factory or is there a way to manually adjust it by the owner?

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Great video, excellent firearm, but could you normalise the audio in your video to -6? You speak quite quietly and the mic struggles to portray your voice effectively. Fascinating!

Can I have your email sir I have one drilling it’s made by nimrod gewehr fabrick & thieme & schlegelmilch shul I am unable to find its rifle caliber it’s marked 12 ga on shotgun barrels but no markings for the rifle barrel

Where did the name “drilling” originate?

Nice video but unfortunately the audio is extremely quiet

Excellent video as usual. While i can admire the ingenuity, workmanship and design of drillings, they have never appealed to me. A shotgun should be light and lively in the hands, hard to do i would imagine with one or more rifle barrels slung beneath. If you are going to shoot large animals, then carry a rifle, if you want to shoot game such as pheasant or grouse, then carry a shotgun. I would think thats the reason drillings never caught on outside Germany/Austria.

I can barely hear you

What?!

Can't hear you. Need mic closer

Wry low sound. Can hardly hear you.

Get a better mike

Great firearm. Poor hair-piece and audio. Usual.