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need help identify this shotgun

lizardlicklizardlick Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited April 2011 in Ask the Experts
I have a double barrel shotgun with the flint stlye looking hammers that pull back and just below them in the middle is a rifle barrell I cant tell the caliber of the rifle or the shotgun but on the top it has the words Fr Korner Siegen it also has a small lever between the trigers in the middle that when pushed down lifts up a rear sight it has a lot of small engravings on the trigger guard and around the edge where you laod the sheel and the small palte under that it also has some words i can almost make out on the left barrell it say krupp fluss stphl (i might be off a little here there is a lot of pitting) has the same thing on the right barrell --without a pic does this ring a bell to anyone-- looks to be very old I would guess late 1800's and to open in there is a lever you push down on the left hand side just above the triggers ----
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's called a "Drilling". The krauts have been making them for over 100 years. It's not really a shotgun, but whats called a combination gun, because of the rifled barrel. "Krupp Fluss Sphl" is the type of steel used in making the barrels. Many were brought back after the war by our G.I.'s as souvenirs, the Germans were forced to turn in all their privately owned guns, for awhile. Need quality photos for positive identification and valuation. Instructions for posting photos are at this link.

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=259294
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  • cbyerlycbyerly Member Posts: 689 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It has fluid steel barrels (modern). If there is no makers name on the locks or barrel, it is a "guild gun". I had a similar one that was burried at the end of the war to prevent confiscation. When it was dug up years later it have some pretty heavy pitting even though it was wrapped up. Have it checked for safety to shoot.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lizardlick,

    Besides the overall and detail pictures of the outside of your drilling, I suggest that you remove the forearm and take pictures of the marks you will find on the barrels. Then remove the barrels from the frame and take pictures of the water table and the underside of the barrels for the rest of the marks.

    Best.
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