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Thursday, June 12, 2014
A nice 4 banger
ME ME ME
One 20 gauge, two 8x57 Mauser, and one 25 ACP? Was unable to
identify this beauty - maybe you can
It's not a .25 ACP. It's a .22 Hornet. A neat little 125 yard small game cartridge from 90 years ago.
The 3 barreled versions of these guns are called drillings, pronounced the German way, "dry ling" because they have 3 barrels; "drei" being their word for 3. I guess it would properly be called a "vierling" (veer ling) due to the 4 barrels.
It's a perfect gun for those who can shoot well and are law limited to owning just one firearm.
It's not a Krieghof. The action looks wrong, unless it was customized. Also, most vierlings are made with two shotgun barrels, a medium-bore barrel and a "varmint" barrel.
If I were to guess, it would be a Fanjoi piece, but I'm probably wrong.
It's not a .25 ACP. It's a .22 Hornet. A neat little 125 yard small game cartridge from 90 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe 3 barreled versions of these guns are called drillings, pronounced the German way, "dry ling" because they have 3 barrels; "drei" being their word for 3. I guess it would properly be called a "vierling" (veer ling) due to the 4 barrels.
It's a perfect gun for those who can shoot well and are law limited to owning just one firearm.
drew- you win the Kim du Toit Award for Gun Excellence - unless Kim du Toit trumps you.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Krieghoff Vierling.
ReplyDeleteOle - A Quadro? Might be. Hard to tell from just the one picture. The latching mechanism is different than their pre-war Dural model.
ReplyDeleteI think it might be a Karl Hauptmann. A Peter Hofer perhaps.
It sure ain't no Marlin.
It's not a Krieghof. The action looks wrong, unless it was customized. Also, most vierlings are made with two shotgun barrels, a medium-bore barrel and a "varmint" barrel.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to guess, it would be a Fanjoi piece, but I'm probably wrong.
Kim du Toit