shooting his first lynx, hunted alot of white/forest hare with it with his old harrier. Waiting in the cold for the dog to come back late in the evening. Really nice memories. My father have trouble cocking the hammer because of arthritis in his hands, so he bought another one that have easier manual cocking system.You probably know the feeling when hunting you sometimes wish that you had a shotgun or a repeater Rifle, well this kind of rifle might be the answer I see it as a shotgun with the capacity to fire rifle round. I guess its quite uncommon in USA, its a combiweapon called Drilling here in Europe its made by a company in Germany named Krieghoff. They are pretty expensive but the craftmanship, accuracy and quality is top of the line however this rifle is one of their simpler models. The rifle weight is 8.3lbs with scope on it has sidebyside 12gauge 12/70 shotgun and 6,5x55 Swede rifle barrel, it has manual cocking system, barrel selector and you can set a hairtrigger on the 6,5x55 for the long accurate shots needed on longer range. The scope is a detachable older Zeiss Diatal 1,5-4,5x18 with a ordinary crosshair. The open sights is adjusted at the factory to the 6,5x55 barrel with 156grain bullet at 100meters, krieghoff guarantee 3shot groups within 1,5" at 109yards with cold rifle barrel. With the use of rifled shotgun slugs with open sights it groups about 6" at 55yards, but in Sweden its illegal to hunt with slugs in a non rifled double bore shotgun.
This rifle is really a all in one rifle when I hunt alone, I use in on small game like roedeer, hare, grouse and capercaillie. But the 6,5x55 is allowed on all big game in Sweden, but I prefer a higher roundcapacity rifle for that kind of hunt but I can if I want. With the hairtrigger set I have accuracy out to 200meters on the first shot with good support but mostly I keep it within 100meters, however when the barrel gets warm the impact changes after 2-3rounds beacuse of the heatspread with soldered barrels.
