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Hello all. This is my first post. I already see many names I recognize from other forums and that is always encouraging. Looking forward to participating. Anyway...I come "hat in hand" asking for advice/opinions.  I am considering this drilling as a restoration project. Almost every drilling I have seen has either a selector or safety on the side of the gun near the wrist. This one appears to have both the safety and the selector on the tang. Has anyone ever seen this configuration before? Is it robust or problematic? I don't want to dive into the drilling world with a lemon. The gun is a Sauer 12ga SxS with a 5.6x52R under barrel. Thanks in advance.
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Is it an underlever or toplever breeching dreiling?
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Top lever. Looks normal except for that extra selector on the top tang. Has no greener style safety on the side.
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I have a Jones Underlever drilling with the toplever for barrel selection. Mine is a retailer marked trade gun, probably made in Zella-Mehlis.
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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Hello Dilly541 Welcome on your first posting. I do not know the answer but I sure do like the top safety better that the greener safety. Can NOT tell you how many times, I set the rifle barrel up when dove hunting with my Krieghoff drilling. he he he, did not have a cartridge in the rifle barrel  Good luck on your adventure Mike
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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Dilly541,
Not to worry, the terms lemon and Sauer don't usually go together( even though it is a 12 ga.). In case you didn't know, the 5.6X52R is the metric designation for 22 Savage HP. If you are a member of the German Gun Collectors Assn, you may find answers to your questions in old issues of WAIDMANNSHEIL or DER WAFFENSCHMIED(publications of GGCA),in articles by Axel Eichendorff or John Laborde. If you are not a member, I suggest you join.
Mike
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You might tell us which button does what. I shoot a Sauer drilling and all buttons don't do what we expect.
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Looks to me to be Tang Safety, Rifle selector, Breech opener. As its a Sauer I would expect it to be a robust system as it has lasted how many years now?
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You might tell us which button does what. I shoot a Sauer drilling and all buttons don't do what we expect. I have not purchased it yet. The picture was sent by the vendor. I am assuming it opens the traditional way with a lever, the safety is the safety and that thing in between that appears to slide back and forth is a barrel selector. I have never seen one like it.
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Looks to me to be Tang Safety, Rifle selector, Breech opener. As its a Sauer I would expect it to be a robust system as it has lasted how many years now?
m-4 Good point M4. that's what others have suggested as well... Anyone else think this design is a concern?
Last edited by Dilly541; 11/24/16 06:36 PM.
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