What calibers do you perfer in a combo or drilling

[dougk]

What rifle and shotgun calibers do you prefer in a combo or drilling?
thanks
Doug

[AkMike1]

For use up here I'd like to someday find a DR drilling with 9.3X74R or similar on the top 2 tubes and a 20ga on the bottom. QR scope mounts of course. 9 pounds or close would be fantastic.


 But it falls under the saying, Beer budget and champagne tastes right now.

[mbyoh]

As for me, give me a good old American cartridge.  Smaller bore preferably.  I'm primarily a turkey hunter, but could take up to deer-size game with it.  I had a drilling in 16 ga by 9.3 X 72, but got frustrated reloading for it, though it is a mild cartridge, similar to the 38-55.  I now have a Simson Suhl combo SXS in 16ga X 25-35.  This is a great turkey, and up to deer gun, and an extremely accurate rifle cartridge.  Next drilling I buy will be a 22 hi-power, 32-20, 30-30, 44-40, or other interesting older American cartridge under 16 gauge barrels.  If I lived in Canada or Alaska, then maybe a 9.3 X 74, or heavier caliber, but I don't.  I did miss a Sauer O/U combo in 30.06 X 12 ga that may have been the ideal all around gun.

Mike

[Drilling Man]

  If someone could build a 12ga. that was as light and handy as a 16ga., i'd take it, but no one does, so 16ga. it is!

  As for rifle chambers...  For dangerous game, 9.3x74R.  It's plenty for anything that walks in North America....  My bullet of choise is, 286 NP's and they will hammer even the biggers bears...

  For the lower the 48, i'd choose the 7x65R.  It's a great cartridge for everything except brown/grizzly bears...  I like a bit more velocity with heavy bullets,  (like the 7mm Rem. mag., and 175 NP's)  if i'm taking a big bear with a 7mm bullet...

  For an excelent all around big game cartridge for North America, on everything except the biggest bears, i'd choose the 8x57jrs...  I've harvested enough big game with mine to see that it's "big medicine" for the biggest deer and blk bears...  Just use 200 NP's and your ready for everything up to brown bear...

  DM

[dougk]

DM
as we are in North America not Europe..  What does the 7x65R or the 8x57JRS offer over the 30-06?  I know the 30-06 is not rimmed. 

And I am getting Nosler Partitions (NPs) in the next ammo purchase.

Doug

[Drilling Man]

DM
as we are in North America not Europe..  What does the 7x65R or the 8x57JRS offer over the 30-06?  I know the 30-06 is not rimmed. 

And I am getting Nosler Partitions (NPs) in the next ammo purchase.

Doug

  You answered your own question...

  My gun didn't come from North America, so i guess my ammo doesn't have to either...     

  When it comes to "break open" guns, i'll take a "rimmed" cartridge every time...  Everything about it is more reliable..as the gun has a bigger, less complicated extractor when used with rimmed rounds.  Also, the cases fall right out of the bbl, when you raise them...  Most break open guns, has to have some kind of extractor that "catches" the rimless rim of a round like the 30-06.  (like the one on your 412)

  I've never been able to afford factory loads in the amounts i liked to shoot them, so it's reloading for me...  and once the cases are bought, the euro rounds cost no more than the American rounds...

  100 rounds of RWS brass in the cartridges i mentioned will last a long long time in a "hunting" gun...  Reload them 10 times, and you have 1,000 rounds of hunting ammo...

  DM