The Rasch drilling was an unusual choice for an African rifle but on reflection it worked very well. With quick detachable scope mounts we could turn it into a shotgun in no time at all to shoot guinea fowl on our way back to camp and with a scope fitted it was accurate enough to shoot plains game.
As I mentioned, my red lechwe dropped at 170 yards to a bullet placed behind his shoulder blade as he stood, body facing away from me but head looking back. The bullet went exactly to the point of aim. With 196 grain softs, there was sufficient punch to deal with medium sized antelope like lechwe, tough beasts like worthog as well as smaller antelope like impala.
I think we would have been OK using it on anything up to and including eland and kudu in size and the ability to load buckshot in the left barrel so you have rifle front trigger, buckshot back trigger was useful in case we needed to follow up worthog etc.
The build quality was very good and I was pleased with the gun's abilities as a shotgun and as a rifle. Much better than many drillings I have seen over the years.
