Hunting

[George Bruner]

I hunt with my Richard Marhoff & Sohn drilling every year. I use it mainly for whitetail deer and turkey. Many of my hunting buddies think I'm crazy for subjecting a gun worth many thousands of dollars to the rigors of the field, but I figure Herr Marhoff built the thing as a hunting gun, not a decoration. My drilling bears a few scars from the years my father (from whom I inherited the gun) hunted with it in Europe and the USA, and from the years I have hunted with it as well. So be it. It is as fine an example of the gun maker's art as I have ever seen and I will use it for it's intended purpose as long as I am able, and I hope my son does the same.

George

[mike ford]

I also do most of my hunting with German guns. It would be an insult to the makers to think they are too fragile to be hunted with. I'm sure that hunting with your Dad's drilling brings back many happy memories of him. Keep it up.
Mike

[Rotaman]

I intend to hunt here in Alaska with my new (to me) Wilhelm Muchler and Sons drilling in 16 x 16 x 8x57JR. I have already taken "Brunhilde" out for snow shoe hares and am preparing to reload to get ready for caribou and black bear season. I also bought an insert for the shotgun barrel that will chamber .218 Bee for a workable coyote load. She is expensive - about as much as all the other guns in my safe combined - but I believe that she was meant for the field.

"Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun."

[sharps4590]

Stay at it George. I don't use my old German double rifle exclusively but I don't hesitate if it is what I want to use. My "new to me" Cape gun will be getting the call this year. Given the battle scars a lot of these old firearms display I don't believe being in the field is anything new to them. Hunting buddies who don't avail themselves of these fine firearms are the ones who are crazy!

Vic