I was out in AZ last month chasing javelinas around the San Carlos. The last two days of quail season on the reservation coincided with the first two days of peeg season and it crossed my mind that a drilling would be great to be carrying but my 8mm drilling seems like a bit of overkill for javelina. I haven't seem too many smaller caliber drillings, though I imagine there may be some 6.5mm's floating around.
Fast forward two weeks and I'm in a small gunshop in CT and I mention to the owner that I am interested in drillings and does he see many come into his shop? He tells me that a few months back someone came in and offered him a drilling that was 20ga over .243. Said the owner wanted $6K for it and he wasn't sure if that price was reasonable so he turned it down. Sounds to me as if it was a postwar gun, perhaps made for the US market, but I thought it would be perfect for peeg & quail.
Have you seen any drillings in similar small ga/bore setups?
I suppose I could always bring my Sav. 24 .22WMR over 20ga. but I'd rather have 2 shots at the birds.
Rob
