Who has and uses a double rifle? Or who lusts after one?
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Heym SR20
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There have been a few made over the years, but not many. Many are in 22 Hornet or the 5.6x50r or similar - a rimmed case.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/bradshaw_custom_rifle.htm
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https://stevebarnettfineguns.com/josef-winkler-rifles-for-sale/josef-winkler-best-double-rifle-22-lr
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the Germans and Austrian have also built many Bergstutzens - these are a double rifle with typically a 22 Hornet, or 22 savage over a bigger calibre - 7x65R or 9.3x74R. Idea being that you have a light rifle for small game - foxes, black grouse, hares etc with a heavier rifle for deer and boar.
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enfieldspares
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Been there, seen it, done it. I had a Hollis .450/.400 when these things were still s1 and so cheap. I've also shot a H & H .470" and when you've done that you're spoiled for anything else.
enfieldspares
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The smallest I've seen was a .22" Savage by Rigby. Many years ago when Holland and Holland were at the other Bruton Street address from the one they are at today. At one time, like the .280" Ross, folks had a belief that the velocity alone killed!
Churchill made some .22" LR (.22" Rimfire) double rifles. Yet they were made not for mammals but for some American clients for long range duck and goose shooting at one hundred yards...a single bullet being the ultimate "super extra full choke" he reasoned.
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mchughcb
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So the answer is probably very, very few. So you're own your own laddy.
Hales Smut
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In Belgium the double rifle was and is very popular. A lot of transformed 20 bores , B325 , Merkel, SKB, ...... they are used for driven shooting in the Ardennes. Buts let's face it. Have a look at Franz Aelbrecht and you see you don't need a double gun for driven shooting, neither for still hunting.
The most comfortable gun is the Browning BAR, but they don't seem to be legal in the UK.
The most comfortable gun is the Browning BAR, but they don't seem to be legal in the UK.
enfieldspares
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Pah! Pussies! No 6 shot in a 12 bore will do! A late friend of my late father was always called "Tiger Chapman". As, in India, he'd shot one. Or two. At close range too.
Anyhow as a lad, maybe twelve, thirteen, I asked what he had used in his 12 bore. Slug, Kynock's "Lethal Ball", Westley's "Explora" and etc., etc.. To which he replied none. But No6 shot as he felt that "It held together remarkably well at short range".
mchughcb
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There end the lesson, sitting up on a highseat in winter shooting with a nice clear shooting lane as a bunch of beaters drive mob after mob of pigs to you while a film crew sits behind you and the sponsors are down stairs eating sandwiches.
Maybe he should trade is sauer, merkel or whatever sponsor is this month and just get the Russians to sponsor an AK47 with a 30 round mag and an aimpoint lol.
mchughcb
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Lol, I seen rabbits still crawl off with No6. God knows what an enraged tiger is going to do.
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