TBT…

Posted on by March 17, 2021

Had to add a Taclight to my EDC…

And there is beauty and then there is ‘functional’ beauty…

I ‘believe’ this a J.P. Sauer and Sohn (can’t confirm that) Vierling from the mid-19th or early 20th century. The four rounds are .22 hornet, two 8×57, and one .20 gauge. Probably in the $15-20,000 range.

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TBT… — 18 Comments

  1. I shot a Purdy 410 double once. It was neglected and made me sick…. Rust freckles all over and, oh, still feel queasy. At the time, it was worth over 100,000. And, no, he didn’t want me to even rub a light coat of oil on it…

    Lifestyles of the rich and….

  2. Hey, the taclight is at least representative, but a shuttered ‘dark lantern’ is what the period nazis would insist on … LOL

    That sound was a coffee snort going wrong – SHOULD know better when I see TBT.

  3. This has been puzzling me since day one. What does ‘TBT’ stand for?

  4. I like combinations but can only afford the models sold to those who live in the ‘cheap seats’. Savage 24 are rather homely, but get the job done when it comes to foraging. Handy to have both a rifle and shotgun in hand simultaneously.

  5. I handled a drilling years ago and was surprised how heavy it was. Should not have been but then if your trusted man servant / gun walla is carrying it, what does it matter old chap?

  6. For the aristocrat who leaves his hunting lodge for a days shooting involving rabbit, red deer (elk for you colonials) and woodcock without the inconvenience of having to bring along multiple gun bearers.

  7. STx- Yeah, sigh…

    PK- Probably…LOL

    Frank- Yep, Throwback Thursday

    jrg- I don’t even have ONE of the cheep ones… sigh. I Did get to shoot a Sauer Drilling a number of years ago.

    Gerry- The one I shot was just over 6 lbs, 2x16ga and an 8×57 underneath. That sucker KICKED!

    NRW- Actually, they were known as ‘Stand guns’, or at least that is how they were labeled in the museum that had them in Germany. And the barrel configurations varied depending on ‘which’ part of Germany you were hunting in. Everything from Rabbits to Boar, to birds could be taken from a single stand.

  8. You kids and your newfangled coal oil lanterns, why back in my day we had to stick a tallow candle on our matchlock pistols!

    That drilling is a beautiful shooting iron.

  10. John- LOL, point taken!

    LL- That you do. And those who don’t read history ‘repeat’ it and think they’ve invented something new (again)… sigh

  11. One of Uncle Jim’s saddest WWII memories (that he would share) was the destruction of so many fine German sporting arms at the end of the war. Stacked them up on the curb stone and had a Sherman drive over them to shatter the stocks and bend the barrels. The old Germans were pleading with the GIs to take them home to America but the $%^&* JAG officers (none of whom were in theater prior to VE-DaY) overseeing the deNazification process threatened to court-martial anyone “pilfering.”

  12. Hey Old NFO;

    I always knew that you were ahead of your time back when you were riding the Pony express.

  14. Considering my EDC came from behind the Iron Curtain…I think my tac-light ought to be a candle. In a wine/vodka bottle. Or something. What did the Czecs drink?

  15. a bullseye lantern would be a better choice. the light is somewhat directional. You also could probably fasten a miners carbide lamp to it.