Oly Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 (edited) Don't know what it is about these guns but I've always been attracted to them. The perfect rough shooters gun or just a poor compromise?? Also, what do you have to do to get them on your ticket? If you have a slot for the rifle calibre on your ticket and hold a sgc is that enough, or does it need to be more specific?? I have a particular soft spot for Krieghoffs Edited August 11, 2008 by Oly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 I would not bother, they are neither one or the other. Using a rifle with open sights is hard work and restricts your usable range, and with a scope., you can't use the shotgun successfully. As in not at all. On the surface they appear to be very practical, but I have had a 22LR/410 and a 7 x 57/sxs 16g, neither guns had a practical use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oly Posted August 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Interesting to hear that Bob. I know they are used a lot on the continent. Any of our foreign PW members use them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexm Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 They look lovely and are a great talking piece but I think unless you get a very expensive one with barrels that are free to expand independently they suffer a lot from drift as the barrel heats up. I saw a video produced by Blaser (admittedly to sell their combo gun with independently floated barrels) which demonstrated this effect with a normal fixed barrel combo gun. Basically you take a shot through the rifle barrel which heats up and expands but the shotgun barrel stuck to the side of it remains cool. This effectively starts to bow the barrel. The second and third shots were about 1 inch and 2 inches off at 100 yds respectively! The same would happen if you are using the shotgun barrel and then spot some large ground game. You go to use the rifle barrel which was zeroed cold and find that the warm shotgun barrel has caused the zero to shift. This basically means that if you are making use of the flexibility of the gun by using either barrel out in the field then the accuracy of the rifle barrel can behave unpredictably, which kind of defeats the point of having such a gun in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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