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Very nice. I would like to hunt with a Classic Double but the closest I have come is with a Kodiak muzzle loader. I grew up shooting SxS shotguns so the transition would be easy for me. They are very practical for heavy cover and the panache and aplomb is off the charts. Nice rifle CRS.
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Tejano, Thank you for the compliment on the rifle. Fortunately, it shoots as good as it looks. 50 yard regulation target below: You are correct WRT smooth transition from double guns to double rifles. I grew up shooting a Parker 20 and my primary shotguns are 20 and 12 Parker repros. This Simson double rifle comes up just like my Parker 12 and is dead on - tang safety, double triggers, all good. hardly need the sights. The scope is for longer distances and I used it on the Nilgai while recovering from an operation on my shooting eye.
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I love Parker shotguns esp the small bores. The reproductions are as good a SXS for the money as anything there is.
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I have never held or seen a double rifle. Wouldn't mind having one, if someone else bought it for me! Only think I think I'd do with one is tell people I have one. I've read that the barrels are set so that at some distance the bullet's cross, not sure how that work's. At one time I really had the hot's for a Ruger #1 but that wish is gone! I like my both action's and push come's to shove, they are what I'd grab. Got to admit though, that double shown here is one beautiful gun!
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I've convinced myself that a double in .44 special would the perfect pig gun, now just to save up to have one built
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At one point I had to have a double rifle and the fact I had no practical use for it mitigated me spending more than I did. Still a mid-grade Chapuis even in 9.3x74 (but with a wood upgrade) thins the wallet pretty good.
For me the 9.3 is one of the neatest cartridges going, tall, slim; gracefull like a ballerina — until you send a 286-gr Oryx downrange from a double of about proper 28 gauge heft.
At a time of life when bespectacled eyes were already feuding with open sights I could just get orange-sized four-shot groups at 100 yds but I was satisfied. It took it to Nebraska and neatly double-tapped a nine hundred pound, buffalo heifer at about a 100 yds running broadside to me. While my first shot was right on and enough, I had to send a second of course, and that one went a bit back.
If one wanted to haunt the whitetail woods or timber for elk with a double rifle, a 9.3x74 would be a good choice and mine. It might be thought of as the slightly slimmer, more delicate brother of the 375 H&H with even more of the 375’s good manners, which is not a bad thing at all in a light, beautifully made rifle.
Great fun. Nice guns. A dandy cartridge. And the meat was good too.
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The 9.3x74 cartridge is down right sexy. Wanted one in a drilling or double but practicality and budgets overruled this. I saw a "pilots" version military issue survival rifle that I could have swung for but was gone by the time I made up my mind. Also ammo was pretty scarce at that time.
I have always thought the Kodiak double muzzle loader would be a great hog rifle if using black powder. There are usually chances at a double and good to have when the pigs run the wrong direction, like when a whole pack thinks it can hide in the smoke from the initial shot.
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I use a black powder Pedersoli .50 cal double rifle on deer
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I would love a double rifle, but I guess I'll just shoot twice with my bolt gun if I have to.....
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