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


5 comments:

drew458 said...

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.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

drew- you win the Kim du Toit Award for Gun Excellence - unless Kim du Toit trumps you.

Ole Phat Stu said...

It's a Krieghoff Vierling.

drew458 said...

Ole - A Quadro? Might be. Hard to tell from just the one picture. The latching mechanism is different than their pre-war Dural model.

I think it might be a Karl Hauptmann. A Peter Hofer perhaps.

It sure ain't no Marlin.

Anonymous said...

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.

Kim du Toit

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